Phil Pennington

Bureaucrats are still spending massive sums on contractors and consultants despite the government's orders to cut it back.

A Porirua community is heartbroken about six sudden deaths but they could have been prevented, the youth worker says.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says it's clear the country has failed to deal with suicide and depression.

An elderly victim of sex abuse at an Upper Hutt college is demanding his abusers' portraits be taken down from the school's walls.

Locals say young people are traumatised after the suspected suicides in their community.

A heavy-vehicle engineer suspended over safety issues is defending his own record but says problems are widespread across the vehicle inspection industry.

Steel and Tube is insisting it never knowingly broke the law, even after copping the single biggest fine ever for misleading customers.

Serious questions need to be answered over the quality of brake testing on Waiheke Island, says Auckland MP Nikki Kaye.

Major vehicle inspection company VTNZ has broken road safety rules by using an inferior brake test on Waiheke Island for months, and the Transport Agency let it.

A notorious paedophile Catholic priest quietly transferred from New Zealand to the UK was free to keep abusing children for two more decades due to Church failings.

The Ministry of Health is investigating stainless steel piping put into a Christchurch hospital building and whether it may have to be replaced.

A Catholic secondary school says no investigation report exists into a sex abuse complaint now being looked into by the police.

Firefighting foam contamination has been found above safety trigger points in some samples around Whenuapai airbase in Auckland.

An ex-Catholic priest living in Asia who was nicknamed "the Phantom Feeler" by boys at a leading Wellington Catholic school is being investigated by police.

Newly released information further tarnishes the government's gold-plated building products approval scheme Codemark.

Safety certificates for heavy vehicles were issued by a Transport Agency inspector, despite an 18-month roller brake machine breakdown.

Three trucks have been ordered off the road in Auckland for safety reasons, and the engineer who certified them has been suspended.

Newly-released information shows checks on engineers who inspect big trucks plunged at the same time as the number of large rigs on the road jumped.

A group of northern Horowhenua ratepayers are trying to break away from their district council.

The Catholic Church has withheld its findings about a child sex abuse accusation for months from the man who laid the complaint.

Engineers have found that large parts of Taranaki Base Hospital - including its emergency department, intensive care unit and maternity block - are probably earthquake prone.

The Marist Fathers has admitted a priest who led one of its top secondary schools sexually abused children.

Fire and Emergency New Zealand is refusing to pay for blood tests for firefighters concerned about exposure to the damaging chemicals PFAS.

Auckland and Northland hospitals have had to temporarily quake-proof their data centres after a warning they were not up to scratch. Video

Christchurch's St Bede's College will appoint an independent reviewer to look into its handling of a child sex abuse complaint in 2011.