Stories by Phil Pennington

It's taken five years for Graham Lindsay to clear his name after the CAA put him through medical checks and grounded him - and then faced accusations of being a narcissist and a stalker.

A Taihape school has rejected the Ministry of Education's apology for taking its students' educational farm away - and accused it of incompetence and letting the farm's facilities degrade into a…

Waka Kotahi has no "respect" for taxpayer money and is failing to keep roads safe, former Associate Transport Minister Julie Anne Genter says.

A woman trapped in Afghanistan while New Zealand authorities have held her passport for three years, is pleading for help.

Air quality experts are working with officials on rolling out carbon dioxide monitoring in classrooms to help counter the threat of Covid-19.

Air quality experts are looking to the government's pandemic school plan today to do more to protect students in fuggy classrooms. Video

Firefighters who say they are being exposed to cancer-causing asbestos have issued a safety notice against their employer.

Church lawyers pressured the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse to narrow the scope of its investigations, the chair of the inquiry told survivors.

Auckland builders have an expanded list of materials they can substitute to cope with the supply crunch caused by Covid-19.

Tests at Tiwai Pt aluminium smelter have turned up soil, drains and groundwater contaminated at levels that exceed key thresholds.

Owners of large motorhomes and horse trucks with modified cabs have won reprieve from a crackdown that has forced some off the road.

Hugely significant; hugely costly; hugely wrong. They are all ways being used to describe the largest overhaul of the main street heading into the centre of Tauranga.

New research shows there are tangled earthquake rules that could lead to owners strengthening the wrong parts of buildings, or having to pay twice to find out if their floors are safe.

More Aucklanders are dying or being maimed on the roads because police are doing only half what they said they would to tackle speeding and booze.

Some builders caught up in desperate times are resorting to desperate measures - backed into a corner by the squeeze on construction supplies, they're looking to substitute products.

Horowhenua locals are counting an environmental win over the temporary end to dumping at a controversial landfill.

Auckland builders are being told to plan carefully to avoid chaos when they return to work tomorrow.

Some motorhome and horse truck owners are demanding the Transport Agency drop a clampdown that is forcing more and more vehicles off the road, or pay the costs itself.

Tests of the main facial recognition system used to produce passports did not record how accurate it is on Māori.

A multimillion-dollar investigation into truck safety inspections has uncovered some shockingly bad welding and other dangers signed off as OK by specialist engineers.

A Taihape farmer who helped win an apology over lost land from the Ministry of Education says it is little consolation.

Fire and Emergency has yet to plug a gap over who should test for toxic smoke and warn the public.

The Chief Ombudsman has found the Education Ministry was wrong to take a small farm used for agricultural lessons off a Taihape school.

The increasing cost of building materials is jeopardising first home buyers' finances.

The government is dismissing calls for more protection of personal information in the Covid-19 contact tracing system.