Stories by Phil Pennington

The Transport Agency has backed down on demanding extra checks on truck brakes.

A researcher is worried the proliferation of crime-fighting computer algorithms will only make ingrained police bias against Māori worse.

Police were developing a high-tech tool to predict motorists' likelihood of getting into serious trouble, according to its first report on safe use of computer algorithms.

Many government departments are expanding rapidly, raising fears they will suck staff away from private businesses.

The country's district health boards are refusing to release reviews done of their cyber security systems, seven weeks after the Waikato DHB was struck by ransomware attackers.

The government offered to pay millions of dollars to Rio Tinto just months after promising in the election campaign it would not give a direct subsidy.

A campaigner for the Tarawera River says mill owner Norske Skog should have to produce an environmental audit.

The Security Intelligence Service has been using a deal set up under outdated laws to surveil people on closed circuit TV or CCTV cameras in Auckland for years.

The Marsden Point oil refinery says it is sucking a lot less leaked fuel out of the ground and that the amount will fall further if it stops processing entirely.

Schools are dealing with at least 550 leak-prone buildings, a decade on from when a programme to fix them was begun.

The country's only oil refinery expects to decontaminate and decommission its equipment, but is not yet required to have a clean-up plan in place for the polluted groundwater and land at Marsden…

The sea is rapidly eroding a beach in front of a mountain of toxic waste stored at Tiwai Point aluminium smelter, new coastal mapping shows.

Police have apologised to the Transport Agency over their account of what happened after a roadworker's death in Wellington.

The government faced paying $10 million to get rid of 10,000 tonnes of hazardous waste in Mataura.

Police have been using or trialing at least three tools to search social media activity during investigations, but won't say what ones.

Land at Waiouru has been contaminated with heavy metals from ammunition, but the Defence Force has not revealed details of other firing ranges.

Two crucial initiatives to clamp down on unsafe building designs are yet to see the light of day, five years after the Kaikōura earthquake.

The Ministry of Education admits it should have done more to test the air at a Lower Hutt high school where toxic mould is hugely disrupting teaching.

A single household water supply could incur a bill of $14,000 annually in coming decades.

The government has been warned that closing down the country's only oil refinery could expose New Zealand to fuel security risks.

The FBI warns Auckland company Mega.NZ is being used by ransomware attackers. The company says it cannot rule out hackers are using its service to store patient data stolen from Waikato DHB.

Rio Tinto is taking over $4 million of costs for getting rid of toxic waste from Tiwai Pt aluminium smelter, but there remains a question mark over a $200m clean-up of other waste. Audio

Truckers meeting the Transport Agency today are expected to push for a climbdown on what they say is a botched tightening of brake rules.

The government and district health boards were warned last year the country's health IT systems are vulnerable to "significant" cyber threats. Audio

The way police investigated a crash in which two men died in a truck rollover resulted in an an eight-year fight for their families.