Stories by Phil Pennington

Greenlane is the latest hospital to fall foul of firestopping standards designed to slow down the spread of flames and smoke.

Newly released documents show road control authorities were pushing for a speed limit for scooters on footpaths of just 10km/h more than a decade ago.

Only one fire station site out of 660 nationwide has rung alarm bells for firefighting foam contamination.

Councils are charging highly-profitable companies little or nothing despite many facing significant costs.

The Environmental Protection Authority won't be prosecuting anyone found with the banned firefighting foam despite an investigation revealing several companies with it.

A survivor of sex abuse by a Catholic school leader whose portrait is being removed years after his attacks, says he was "one of the most evil men operating as a paedophile".

A small number of people who could become violent extremists are being monitored, but the programme is being criticised as wrongheaded.

A South Auckland hospital was warned that patients in its surgery recovery ward were at "extreme" risk from fire but did not fix the building for more than three years.

New Zealand is enmeshed in a spider's web of security agencies and an alphabet soup of committees and panels attached to them.

Newly released documents show all e-scooters were being ridden illegally just a month before the launch of trials of hire scooters in Auckland last October.

Some local councillors are calling on the Transport Agency to set national rules for using the scooters.

The security agency watchdog warned the SIS in 2017 not to overstate its powers to people they interview and to inform them of their rights.

A Muslim association with a 20-year plan to improve community links says it is this type of work that can keep people safe.

The SIS has been accused of breaching the rights of the Muslim communities it has been monitoring.

Police are defending their decision not to charge a man who, three days after the terror attacks, stood outside a Palmerston North mosque wearing a swastika.

A firefighter's widow who only got the state to pay compensation after her husband died is calling on the government to take action so others don't go through the same hardship.

Firefighters are pleading for a law change so they don't have to battle to get the state to pay them compensation when they get cancer. Video

Security agencies are under pressure to explain why they appear to treat Muslims as more of a threat than the alt-right and white supremacists. Audio

Murder accused Brenton Tarrant held a standard firearms licence that allowed him to own limited-capacity automatic weapons, even after a background check into whether he was a "fit and proper" person.

A Wellington Catholic high school has agreed to take down a portrait in its auditorium of a proven sex abuser of multiple boys.

E-scooters have been allowed on to footpaths and roads without the risk assessments a transport official has said were necessary.

District health boards say that having to pay wage and salary arrears could have a significant financial impact on them.

A union believes health workers are owed more than $45 million for years of underpayment of leave and shift allowances by DHBs that are still carrying on.

Thousands of health workers may be owed millions of dollars because of years of underpayments under the Holidays Act.

Some contractors do not know how to put proper firestopping in buildings, a report by the independent building research institute BRANZ has found.