Phil Pennington

Kāinga Ora, formerly Housing New Zealand, is attracting council building staff with higher salaries, industry sources say.

Government agency WorkSafe is beginning new research into why so many work-related fatalities involve vehicles.

The Transport Agency needs millions of dollars to update old IT systems that provide crucial road safety information.

Fresh doubt has been cast on the strength and durability of the huge concrete basement at Auckland's highest skyscraper project.

Building owners worried they might have combustible cladding on their multi-storeys, but who have not been identified on any official list, are looking into taking legal action.

Russell Crowe is being challenged to help a rights campaigner who wants to fight the Australian government in court over its treatment of New Zealanders who make Australia their home. Video

The health board responded to accusations of breaching patients rights in its women's health theatres, pointing out a lack of national guidance on informed consent.

Figures combined for the first time show that many more people were killed than the public previously thought.

An under-staffed social work agency has been turning away applicants because it can't afford to pay them enough.

New Zealand's defence force spent $125k on a contractor to handle public relations around its foam contamination problems.

The cost to maintain facilities at most of the country's prisons has risen due to a 10-year half-a-billion dollar contract.

The mayor of Lower Hutt has pulled back from his earlier demands for an investigation into plumbing at a retirement village that's still waiting for repairs to be approved, 18 months after warnings of…

Swimmers are at least two days away from being able to safely swim in Wellington harbour near the point where sewage flooded into it.

Lobby groups believe officials are looking at a 10km/h limit for e-scooters - but they want that at least halved, or no scooters on paths at all.

New figures show that in more and more fatal road crashes, something is found to be wrong with the vehicle.

The Justice Ministry has finally made its holding cells in courts safer for suicidal detainees, four years after a man killed himself in one.

Large government departments have reported increased spending on consultants and contractors, a year after the government promised to reduce it.

Building plans accepted by Christchurch City Council show one of its own structural engineers designed a new multi-storey office block that is unstable, but the council says the document are wrong.

Newly released documents show major ructions at the country's most high-powered building products quality approval scheme, CodeMark.

Motorists are being warned to expect a "huge amount" of roadworks this summer, as the Transport Agency plans to do double its usual road maintenance and renewal.

A building developer is asking the Christchurch City Council to cordon off his defective multi-storey block in the main shopping zone after earthquake risk concerns.

A man who narrowly avoided the CTV building collapse in the 2011 earthquake says a new case of poor seismic design shows building consent failings.

A property developer says he rejected the developers who went on to build a substandard multistorey in Christchurch's central mall.

The Waitematā District Health Board admits it's dealt with several cases of inadequate patient consent for gynaecological procedures last year, but none in the past six months.

Christchurch City Council is refusing to sign off on a new and unoccupied central city multi-storey building after a final ruling faulted its design.