Stories by Phil Pennington

Half the country's court buildings are crumbling, some are not safe or have mould and the cost of fixing them has blown out past a billion dollars, forcing a flagship project to be crimped to fit.

The contamination risks for Queenstown's water are not as "extreme" as a plan it gave to the water regulator described them to be.

The state home provider said it "undertake due diligence to confirm that the polysilicon used in the manufacture of these panels is not sourced from suppliers in the Xinjiang province".

RNZ can reveal Auckland, Northland, Nelson and Whakatāne were without the extra water rescue help during widespread floods in May.

Phil Parkes has been under growing pressure - and his resignation comes as the Crown safety watchdog confirms scores of job cuts.

It was an "absolutely ridiculous" situation, the boss of Whakatāne's Ngāti Awa Social and Health Services admitted.

Waka Kotahi has paid road builders millions more on top of the billion-dollar cost of the Pūhoi to Warkworth motorway.

A newly released letter from Amazon to then-Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern shows the US tech firm celebrating an "ambitious partnership" with the New Zealand government.

Police are replacing their tasers but will not say exactly what the new weapons are or how they will be monitored for public safety.

A confidential government project with a big US tech firm was aimed at sparking "government system-wide change" - but went nowhere.

Doctors are grappling with mistrust around information entered into the IT systems at Hawke's Bay hospital, including what it tells them about patients and critical scan results.

Lower Hutt's biggest transport project in decades denies it has been newly costed at over a billion dollars.

Health New Zealand says it chose big US tech firms to deliver a landmark data project because they have better size, security and robustness than local bidders.

New Zealand is hedging over a new US strategy to unleash thousands of battlefield drones to counter China, dubbed 'hellscape' and 'replicator'.

An Auckland high school where leaks have been falling on students' heads for years is among those that have undergone a review into building project problems. Audio

US tech giant Amazon has worked its way into a prime position in a massive digital overhaul of stressed IT systems by Te Whatu Ora.

The big winners so far are giant American corporations, cashing in on a push towards cloud computing coming from the government.

WorkSafe, under fire already for not doing enough to enforce workplace safety, is cutting back on what it does to save money.

Analysis - A couple of extraordinary reports out recently show that figuring out what you are building on can be trickier than you'd think.

Officials considered the risks as Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner group marched on Moscow were not sufficient, but have since reviewed what events would trigger an evacuation.

An $80m-a-year company relied on a young worker-for-hire in ways it should not have. Two people died. What went wrong?

The public health system is in the middle of assessing a plethora of old, unreliable and insecure IT systems that need billions of dollars to upgrade.

An offshoot of Google has lobbied the government hard over electricity projects and had multiple meetings with Minister of Energy Megan Woods.

Five radiology departments at public hospitals have lurched into high-risk territory in the last few months.

Auckland Council has found two Loafers Lodge-type boarding houses bad enough to trigger a dangerous building notice.