Stories by Phil Pennington

Permanent residency has been granted to a Filipino man living in Auckland who was ordered by a US court to pay $35 million for internet piracy.

A big rural company is being accused of bullying after making its main suppliers wait longer to be paid..

Corrections is paying for guards from three more prisons to stay in hotels as a stopgap to cope with growing inmate numbers.

Seismic grade steel reinforcing bar that is not as strong as it should be has been sold in the New Zealand market.

Waiau's fire brigade had to borrow a water pump to fight a major blaze, in the latest difficulty for a town that feels it's been forgotten since the November quake.

Police refuse to say if they monitored a convicted child pornographer in the months before he was arrested to face child sex abuse charges in Australia.

It is unacceptable that child services could end up policing their own failings without outside scrutiny, advocates say.

A Child Youth and Family manager admits the agency failed multiple times when it sent a Southland toddler back into a P-using household where he died.

Scores of New Zealand dairy farmers in Australia are relying on food parcels because they are blocked from getting any government support.

A last-minute court challenge has overturned a mobile phone ban for New Zealanders in Australian immigration detention centres.

Quarries are warning that rising building costs will be propelled higher still by pressure on them to move further away from cities and towns.

A civil liberties lawyer has accused the Australian Prime Minister of using "weasel words" over detaining and deporting New Zealanders.

Another big office building in Wellington has been temporarily shut after engineers ordered it be strengthened.

The family of a Southland toddler who died want to know why his mother was put in charge of protecting him when she was suspected of injuring him.

A toddler died in a Southland house just five days after social workers sent him back there from hospital, despite knowing it was unsafe, records show.

An Invercargill man who witnessed a great white shark bite his rubber raft says cage diving is to blame for them becoming more aggressive around Stewart Island.

More than half of quarry managers sitting a crucial exam are failing, and have missed a deadline to prove they are fit to run a quarry safely.

Northland farmers facing big losses are counting on a bit more support now that drought has been declared.

One of nine Indian students facing deportation is being asked at the very same time to help with a government investigation into the Auckland school he attended.

The government is considering launching an inquiry into growing petrol price margins - but in the mean time people are shopping around.

Two government agencies are in a legal scrap over an Indian student who claims he did not know his visa application was tainted by fraud.

While February is generally warmer and drier for most of New Zealand, it varies across the country, a climate scientist says.

Moving six salmon farms in the Marlborough Sounds would help clean up the seabed and boost production, the government says.

China's warning that a New Zealand government investigation into steel dumping will risk trade should not be seen as a threat, New Zealand experts say.

New Zealand has launched an anti-dumping investigation into Chinese steel.