Stories by Phil Pennington

Oranga Tamariki is warning children might be put in danger by changes to the Privacy Act.

The national archive, fresh from apologising for one privacy breach, admits a second psychiatric hospital was caught up in it.

The new system for buses, ferries and trains also opens the way for more road tolls and to introduce congestion charges for motorists for the first time.

Kiwi aerospace entrepreneurs are pushing ahead with air taxis, reusable rockets and tree-spotting drones, despite frustrations.

A High Court challenge against radiology practices that some doctors say are not properly independent has been dismissed.

A group of large radiology operators had complained about surgeons taking stakes in new practices.

The restricted information mistakenly made open access included names, ages, marital status and "the condition people were admitted for".

A Swedish company has apologised over months of security breaches at Archives New Zealand.

A privacy breach by Archives NZ has let people see records containing abuse survivors' sensitive health information.

The LynnMall terror attack review says officials did not call the family of the man responsible for the attack to see if they could help deradicalise him. Audio

The aerospace industry is warning companies face with too much red tape and are on the verge of quitting New Zealand.

"Significant deficiences" have been found by an independent review into the handling of terrorist Ahamed Samsudeen.

Eleven years after the Christchurch quake, many hospitals and other buildings still don't know how heavy non-structural elements will fare in another tremor.

A Waka Kotahi investigation into wheels snapping off mobile school dental clinic trailers remains unfinished, more than two years after a wheel flew down Tauranga's main street.

Contamination of drinking water by stealthy chemicals has set back Auckland's efforts to cope with drought and growing demands on water. Audio

The prime minister is staying tightlipped over her dealings with major multinational companies about datacentres being built or planned for New Zealand.

The police have quietly lowered the threshold at which speed cameras ping drivers.

Police using mobile speed cameras have caught twice as many people speeding this year compared with 2021.

Technology that lets outdoor advertisers track people in the street is spreading, though the marketing industry says it is at pains not to invade privacy. Video

Documents show Oranga Tamariki has been stumbling towards budget blowouts with loose and patchy financial controls.

The immigration minister says he was briefed about the use of social media searching technology around the same time RNZ first reported it.

The government has $40m to spend on the transition of two - RNZ and TVNZ - into one entity, and at least a quarter of that is going on contractors.

The motor industry predicts the price of used cars will rise 20 to 25 percent under the Clean Car Standard.

Volunteer firefighters say years of delays in local emergency planning for fires and floods are getting in the way of equipping and training them.

Five years after being set up, FENZ has not completed most of the local plans to assess each community's fire and flooding risks even though it is required by law.