Stories by Phil Pennington

A Wellington family have been waiting three months to get back into their home after fire gutted the house next door.

A law lecturer says the failure of one of the Whakaari White island tragedy prosecutions erodes another charge against a government agency.

Another major highway project is suffering significant delays, with the Pūhoi-to-Warkworth Ara Tūhono motorway not opening until next year.

Auckland councillors have argued over whether the city is getting bang for its buck from $306 million of planned spending on cycling. Audio

The government has been warned that planning law changes may erode Auckland Council's already limited ability to control helicopter flights.

The workhorses of the country's fire truck fleet are beset by a new range of mechanical faults.

Auckland streets are much more dangerous to get around in compared to leading European capital cities.

The Christchurch City Council is being sued by the owners of a badly flawed building whose engineer has been sanctioned.

An engineer whose design of a multistorey in Christchurch's main shopping precinct was so flawed and "incompetent" the building was immediately an earthquake risk, has been deregistered.

A Christchurch car dealer claims mistakes with emissions data in the Clean Car Scheme have cost him $100,000 and counting.

Recommendations to make skydiving near water safer have yet to pass their first hurdle, four years after a jumper drowned in Lake Wakatipu.

An overhaul of the Holidays Act has thrown up a new, curly problem that could cost employers.

There won't be a fight over electricity to power green hydrogen in Southland, a Fortescue Future Industries director says.

Almost all road building bitumen is being taken over by the Transport Agency, which believes it's being ripped off by suppliers.

The Security Intelligence Service was calling the LynnMall knife attacker a terrorist for years, at the same time as courts were hearing he was a high, medium or even low-risk threat.

The Transport Agency says it is dealing with almost 100 vehicles with flawed emissions data under the Clean Car Discount Scheme.

Car dealers are worried they will have to pay the bill for errors in the Clean Car Discount Scheme that could cost buyers hundreds or even thousands of dollars.

Two youth organisations have pulled out of a $2.4m Oranga Tamariki campaign saying it verges on exploiting young people.

A Taranaki company is about to make its own bitumen, stepping into the void left by the Marsden Pt oil refinery shutdown.

The shutdown of Marsden Point oil refinery is causing ructions in the road building industry which is already under intense pressure.

The uplift of children from their families increased on average in the four months after the minister in charge ordered a step change. However, the overall trend is steeply down.

Planners at Auckland Council are resisting calls for a clampdown on helipads on the eve of a key meeting, amid whirling discontent in the Hauraki Gulf.

Children are being harmed at an increasing rate while in the care of Oranga Tamariki. Audio

Questions are being raised whether hospitals are accurately reporting their massive spending on often highly paid contractors.

Law changes aimed at cracking down on poor engineering are being hailed as a landmark.