Phil Pennington

The level of firefighting foam contamination in eels in south Taranaki is up to 80 times the proposed trigger level in an official food safety report.

A Hutt Valley grandmother says an Oranga Tamariki safety report recommends her grand-daughter should be in her care full-time, but she's not.

The Ministry of Education is being blamed for a badly leaking Auckland high school and for changing contracts so that builders can wait up to twice as long as usual to get paid.

A construction industry survey suggests a third of builders are not holding money in trusts for subcontractors even though it is against the law not to do so.

The grandmother of a teenage girl in the Hutt Valley says she fears her granddaughter will end up on meth, following months without intervention by social workers.

A major supplier of aluminium composite panels for high-rise buildings has pulled out of the government's troubled CodeMark scheme.

Tests for firefighting foam contamination are spreading outwards to encompass properties neighbouring Whenuapai airbase in west Auckland.

A couple in Australia have complained that higher fees for foreign tourists to tramp New Zealand's Great Walks amounts to unlawful discrimination.

An investigation into truck safety problems has revealed the auto-brakes failed on a fully-loaded trailer that came loose on a highway.

Building owners and designers are struggling to deal with the suspension of key approval certificates for aluminium panels similar to those that burned on London's Grenfell Tower.

A mother whose baby has tainted blood and a man whose business is being wrecked have spoken out at an Australian inquiry into firefighting foam contamination.

The number of hospital buildings that are earthquake-prone is rising as new assessments come in, reversing a downward trend.

The government and a key agency are at odds over what's being called a "broken" and "failing" building products assurance scheme.

A review has found the government's gold-standard scheme to approve building products, CodeMark, is seriously flawed.

A New Zealand mother-of-six shown in an online video being restrained on the ground at a Sydney immigration detention centre says guards used excessive force against her.

Computer systems serving the northern region's public hospitals came within minutes of losing power last year, according to an internal health board report.

A 17-year-old New Zealand boy held for four months in detention in Australia has been released.

South Auckland health chiefs were warned 18 years ago that an earthquake-prone building should not have patients in it, but it still does.

Construction delays are forcing the West Coast District Health Board to keep patching up the earthquake-prone Grey Base Hospital.

Analysis - When it comes to making buildings earthquake safe, the more essential it is, the tougher the choices become, writes Phil Pennington.

Social workers at Oranga Tamariki in Wairarapa failed to provide 21 safety assessments on children on time last year, new figures show.

Two-thirds of the 1400 heavy vehicles forced off the road after a safety alarm about towing connections have still not been recertified.

A renewed investigation into why Statistics House on the Wellington waterfront was badly damaged in the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake has found the floors were not built as planned.

The Archbishop of Adelaide would have known about allegations of offending by a paedophile priest who abused at least one girl in New Zealand, a survivor of clerical sex abuse says.

The Counties Manukau District Health Board spent millions on a failed IT project while putting off dealing with rotting buildings.