Stories by Phil Pennington

Police Minister Mark Mitchell has been unable to provide any communications or evidence for his assertions the Defence Force would help on the front line at boot camps.

Roadworker Joji Bilo was killed by a runaway truck with an extremely sensitive parking brake near Wellington in early 2019.

Cyclone Gabrielle quickly overwhelmed police and they are not properly prepared for the next such disaster, a newly released report shows.

Ministry of Education staff faced questions from whānau, students and teachers of Wellington Girls' College at a highly charged meeting. Audio

The school closed a block after it failed an earthquake assessment, and wants to pull the building down and start from scratch. Audio

Analysis - Artificial intelligence-enabled cameras on billboards, in bus windshields, on petrol station forecourts and in the checkout at the supermarket - all these are here, or about to be.

Two child protection watchdogs have written to Oranga Tamariki asking it to spell out its rationale for cutting millions of dollars of contracts for services to children.

Emergency housing tenants will be subject to tough new rules in a fortnight, though they'll only start hearing about them directly from next week.

'Widespread non-compliance' over asbestos in schools has been revealed in, newly released reports.

The government has rejected the claim.

Setting up a super-agency was central to six of the first 10 recommendations of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the 2019 mosque attacks.

New Zealand has quietly signed up to help the United States in its new strategy to expand the weapons-making defence industrial base across the Indo-Pacific region. Audio

但依据OIA披露的大量文档显示，新情报部门的主要工作集中在对非法入境者的监控、识别上。

An automated register of false personas to use on social media platforms is being set up by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.

It wanted the cameras to calculate travels times to determine if the private operators of the Transmission Gully motorway were meeting performance standards.

Health NZ is inviting companies to bid to conduct scans for an initial period of one year, with the option to roll over for another year.

The Defence Force says it does not use the term "kill web" regarding high-tech military exercises, but is preparing to be more combat ready for the "battlefields of the future".

The NZDF is one of a half-dozen militaries involved in regular exercises to link American and allied war-fighting technology more closely. Video

Pharmac says there is no shortage of intravenous fluids, or IV, for surgery, unlike in Australia, but it is monitoring the situation.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has been quizzed about the lack of a proper disaster coordination system.

Philips said it regretted the concerns expressed in Te Whatu Ora papers.

Despite years of attempts to set one up, New Zealand is still no closer to a disaster coordination system.

A senior police supervisor spent a week overseas looking into facial recognition technology, without producing a single report about it.

Officials have embarked on a salvage job now that a hydrogen truck building project with a US firm that had faced fraud charges in the US has gone off track.

Another "brutally fast" round of redundancies looming, leaving already struggling staff stunned, one insider says. Audio