Phil Pennington

Police said "nothing has gone wrong" and that the project was on pause because of regulatory uncertainty.

Monitors in the water upstream and downstream from the epicentre at Melling Bridge have shown some changes in quality.

The approved budget for the new Dunedin Hospital is just over $2b, though the government continues to use a figure millions less than that.

Oranga Tamariki's second boot camp, which starts next week, will be longer in the lock-up phase and have more staff.

Threats are spiralling, but security remains very patchy, the Government Communications Security Bureau has told MPs.

The NZ Security Intelligence Service was ambivalent about the group being dropped from the list in 2025.

The GCSB Director-General told MPs it was a very volatile geopolitical environment.

A newly-released Treasury report said significant trade-offs were still required.

A select committee has sent the exemption back to officials to look at again.

It comes as trucking groups express worry about missed opportunity to make more highway bridges able to carry heavier vehicles in future.

A select committee is hearing submissions on the Public Works Amendment Bill that aims to streamline land acquisition powers and compensation.

Bridges built recently in Auckland Waikato are off limits to the heaviest haulers. Audio

An overhaul of the legislation has reached the crucial stage of select committee submissions, after a years-long effort to replace the 24-year-old Civil Defence Act.

Fire crews aren't supposed to call in helicopters without police authorisation, but some say it's taking too long.

If you want to catch a tiny bird and move it to a new home, you need expert help and your car's aircon. Audio

The harbourmaster helped search for a 14-year-old who had jumped off a burning boat he had been left in charge of.

Raymond Morgan bought it for $200 last year then found over 200 documents in it, dated between 1988 and 2004, in a locked side cupboard.

Commuting cyclists are choosing to avoid the tunnel and go through a pedestrian tunnel on bikes.

But police bosses say 57 percent of officers having considered quitting in the last year is not a pressure point for pay negotiations.

It might take law changes to keep them out of trials, the government's chief legal advisers say.

The Petone railway underpass on a nearly-new $70 million cycleway is thigh-deep in water more than two days after the storm and heavy rain in Wellington.

"It's all very well to have plans, intentions and work-around but when this is a daily issue it becomes very difficult, demoralising and dangerous."

Corrections is rushing new high-security units at Hawke's Bay, prompting questions over risks and reduced amenities amid record inmate growth.

Visions of a digital twin for each soldier, laser weapons and drones using satellites to engage with targets before a human pulls the trigger are all in the latest NZDF briefing.

Health New Zealand says two of its flagship hospital rebuilds are on track despite Treasury alerts put on them months ago, that suggest "successful delivery appears to be unachievable".