Stories by Phil Pennington

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.

Three major councils with the most boarding houses like Loafers Lodge in their area have all been told recently to improve their building warrant of fitness systems.

The government has imposed the first-ever standards specific to emergency housing providers.

Documents show the government expects problems ahead over putting road user charges on electric vehicles.

A China-linked hack of US government cloud email accounts is raising questions about our government's growing reliance on American data firms. Audio

Medical imaging services at Hawke's Bay Hospital were so fraught doctors had to take stopgap measures while an investigation was ongoing.

A damning report Te Whatu Ora kept hidden for months using whistleblowing laws has finally been released.

The only substantial document firefighters had about landslide risks prior to the fatal Muriwai slip in February was a 10-year-old manual from Sweden.

The Ministry of Social Development has discovered it is failing to pay almost half of beneficiaries the right amount. Audio

Analysis: A big shake-up in how hospitals are built allows for private sector investment, but just how - and how much - remains in question.

The government has missed yet another deadline for replacing the tangled Holidays Act.

Analysis - BlackRock is setting up a $2 billion fund with the government to invest in green energy - but what is BlackRock?

Auckland's uncertainty over tunnels and roads, and how to pay for them, now extend to public transport ticketing.