Stories by Phil Pennington

Analysis - Wairoa is years behind on some high-priority water supply projects, but the jobs it did put first paid off when Cyclone Gabrielle hit.

The discovery has shut down air filling at Auckland City fire station, and it has withdrawn all its breathing apparatus tanks.

The country's most powerful medical laboratory group, half owned by the government, is proposing to slash the medical lab workforce in the upper South Island.

Authorities knew for years that some trucks had a handbrake so sensitive it could be dislodged simply by shutting the cab door - in fact, since just after a man was crushed to death in 2010.

A report of the year-long investigation into breast cancer screening delays for thousands of women is due out from Te Whatu Ora later today, and RNZ has obtained an advance look.

Analysis - The revelation that KiwiRail put a 13-year-old rubber expansion joint into a ferry engine does not back up claims it made on Thursday about the quality of its audit regimes, writes Phil…

KiwiRail admits it had opportunities to avoid the chaos with trains in Wellington this week but missed them.

Delivery times for new and used cars have blown out by weeks or months in New Zealand as ships stack up off Australian ports.

An importer is predicting that some new cars could jump from $20,000 to $35,000 in the next three years as subsidies on some hybrid vehicles and most small petrol cars are removed. Audio

Tests have come back clear over possible contamination of Napier's drinking water with 'forever' chemicals.

New testing has found a third lot of asbestos at Auckland's main fire station.

Asbestos that scores an 11 on a risk scale that tops out at 12 has been found in the ceiling at Auckland's main fire station.

Retired senior US military officers have been landing high-paying government jobs in New Zealand including with the GCSB spy agency.

Local advisory committees are meant to play a key role in getting communities the emergency response resources they need.

More and more junior doctors are being lost in the training pipeline before they emerge to bolster the stressed ranks of specialists, data suggests.

The ministry is considering spending about $1 billion on replacing the existing Seasprite chopper fleet.

New Zealand faces higher hurdles using its military helicopters alongside its defence partners now that Australia is switching choppers.

The government also engaged Microsoft to look at questions of sovereignty and citizenship to help government services go digital.

The junior doctors' union is on the verge of bringing in nationally coordinated training for the first time.

Problems experienced by firefighters attending Lower Hutt's Alicetown Foodmarket shows the FENZ fleet is ageing, a union says.

Senior and junior doctors say the government's national workforce taskforce set up months ago with fanfare has not delivered.

Health bosses desperate to recruit new cancer doctors will need to sell them on cramped spaces and shuttling up and down the street most days.

Gisborne's main water supply pipe was identified as at unacceptable risk of catastrophic failure months before Cyclone Gabrielle smashed it. Audio

Microsoft has joined Amazon in signing agreements with the government to collaborate on projects, regulatory changes and national cybersecurity priorities.

The workplace safety watchdog began research into the labour-hire industry safety within weeks of two temp workers being killed, but it never investigated their deaths.