Stories by Phil Pennington

The government has slashed funding of research into terrorism and violent extremism, with the fledgling centre that carries out the research already having to cut back.

Official papers show ACC has struggled to extricate itself from the scheme it knew was falling short.

A life-saving disaster information system that would have been crucial during last year's devastating storms is still nowhere to be seen, despite being fast tracked six years ago.

The final bills are yet to land for Transmission Gully and the Pūhoi motorway, but they're likely to each be more than $1b.

The area was so super-slippery, it was in a "critical state of stability".

A slew of courthouses facing a $2 billion rescue bill have pushed officials to consider public-private partnerships to rebuild and repair them. The government wants more of the sometimes…

NZ supports a US defence strategy to get hold of commercial space tech in a conflict, according to briefing papers.

Analysis - Space is going off, and we're involved.

The United States has been assessing New Zealand's capability to help with rapid rocket and satellite launches if war breaks out in space.

The Education Ministry has taken back the job of financing, designing and building several school expansions, after companies said the public-private-partnership approach was too difficult.

The US has included New Zealand in a law without the New Zealand government's involvement.

An American conglomerate with a major New Zealand prison contract has been advocating the use of AI to monitor inmates talking to each other.

Abuse survivors have used the records to find out life-changing information about their family - and even their true ethnicity.

Police mostly used the AI-driven tech to corroborate existing evidence, place vehicles at times and locations for an investigation, and as supporting evidence in criminal cases.

The government wanted sovereign control of sensitive data, but also a bargain when planning for a high-security data centre in Auckland, documents show.

An urgent overhaul of health systems to better catch and control communicable diseases, from Covid-19 to measles, is months behind schedule - but authorities are promising to "avoid gaps".

Portable biometric recording devices or scanners have been used by UK and US police forces for more than a decade.

WorkSafe has found shortcomings at Fire and Emergency over how two firefighters died in a landslide in Cyclone Gabrielle, but will not prosecute.

The Transport Agency wanted to see if it could combine two vehicle-spotting technologies. It couldn't.

After being forced to destroy thousands of fingerprint records, police are looking for a way to capture 600,000 crime-scene print images and 50,000 from arrests. Audio

An Australian Strategic Policy Institute report says Pillar Two could raise the industry to state of the art capability - or "crush" it "under the weight of the globe's biggest player".

有关部门正在探索更好的方法来决定在面临偶发性电力短缺时，如何更好地保障优先供电。

New Zealand's largest electricity distributor is warning the country to hurry up with controls around charging electric vehicles or face unnecessary bills running into the billions.

Officials are looking at better ways of choosing who gets the power during shortages amid relentlessly growing demands.

Its new building in Wellington will not be nearly big enough for all its records, and it has also run out of money to build its new storage facility in Levin.