Phil Pennington

The Education Ministry's sale of Taihape Area School's educational farm asset to put into the Treaty settlements landbank has divided a community and raised issues over the legality of the move.

Government officials are being accused of stealing a farm bought by a central North Island town for their schoolchildren to learn agriculture.

The government has suspended talks over the Bluff aluminium smelter until it gets environmental commitments over cleaning up its landfill and spent cell-liner waste.

A massive double-trailer truck lost half its load on a highway outside Kaikōura because most of the welds holding the refrigerator box on the chassis had snapped.

The Bluff aluminium smelter has revealed it has another 75,000 tonnes of highly toxic hazardous waste stored in buildings at Tiwai Point - and does not have a solution what to do with it yet.

Police are using drones that have been partly banned in the US over fears that China is using the technology to spy.

At least 2900 tonnes of toxic aluminium waste has been removed from a paper mill at Mataura.

Muslim groups are calling for more action and accountability over the mosque attacks in a new report out today. Audio

A country town's school blighted by leaks and backed-up sewage is finally getting a rebuild, but that won't be until next year - a decade after the flaws were exposed.

Engineers who keep the country's truck fleet safe are crying foul over a government agency they say is broken, biased and rife with bullying.

The government tried to get Tiwai Point aluminium smelter to clean up toxic waste at its Southland site but failed. Audio

An electrician had to be "coached through" fixing a gas leak on a Cook Strait ferry, found an investigation which discovered a trail of systemic training and emergency planning failures.

The aluminium smelter at Bluff has stockpiled more than 100,000 tonnes of cyanide-laced hazardous waste less than 100 metres from a fast-eroding Southland beach.

Eighteen trucking companies are being investigated after a police crackdown uncovered mass safety breaches on the highway north of Auckland late last year.

Critics of WorkSafe are questioning its ability to investigate bad road crashes, while the workplace safety regulator has told the government it's "unable to meet public expectations".

A Muslim women's group is calling for action and not just consultation over the Christchurch mosque shootings.

An interfaith advocate is asking for an apology from officials as the hui into the Christchurch mosque shootings continues.

Young people setting up the country's first national network for Muslim youth are looking to nationwide community meetings on the mosque attacks as a litmus test for the government.

A Muslim leader has held a hurried meeting with top officials about the government's nationwide series of hui on the mosque attacks.

Satellites spotted part of the crater of Whakaari / White Island collapsing in the days before the deadly December 2019 eruption, it has emerged.

Thousands of workers in managed isolation hotels now have representatives to address health concerns and make their workplaces safer.

Brief clinical appointments are making it impossible for women with breast cancer to get vital information about issues like mastectomies, a researcher says. Audio

The son of a woman who died aged 100 in a troubled Lower Hutt resthome claims its systemic problems accelerated her decline.

A health board is instigating management changes at a Lower Hutt rest home being investigated over allegations of abuse and neglect.