Stories by Phil Pennington

Eleven years after the Christchurch quake, many hospitals and other buildings still don't know how heavy non-structural elements will fare in another tremor.

A Waka Kotahi investigation into wheels snapping off mobile school dental clinic trailers remains unfinished, more than two years after a wheel flew down Tauranga's main street.

Contamination of drinking water by stealthy chemicals has set back Auckland's efforts to cope with drought and growing demands on water. Audio

The prime minister is staying tightlipped over her dealings with major multinational companies about datacentres being built or planned for New Zealand.

The police have quietly lowered the threshold at which speed cameras ping drivers.

Police using mobile speed cameras have caught twice as many people speeding this year compared with 2021.

Technology that lets outdoor advertisers track people in the street is spreading, though the marketing industry says it is at pains not to invade privacy. Video

Documents show Oranga Tamariki has been stumbling towards budget blowouts with loose and patchy financial controls.

The immigration minister says he was briefed about the use of social media searching technology around the same time RNZ first reported it.

The government has $40m to spend on the transition of two - RNZ and TVNZ - into one entity, and at least a quarter of that is going on contractors.

The motor industry predicts the price of used cars will rise 20 to 25 percent under the Clean Car Standard.

Volunteer firefighters say years of delays in local emergency planning for fires and floods are getting in the way of equipping and training them.

Five years after being set up, FENZ has not completed most of the local plans to assess each community's fire and flooding risks even though it is required by law.

The government is banking on an online system for checking people's identity despite persistent gaps around its implications for humans rights, ethics and Māori.

An undercount of Māori by almost 50,000 in the census has raised questions if they should already have another seat in Parliament.

Mounting difficulties getting hold of important historical documents are sparking government infighting and threats of legal action.

The amount the country's hospitals owe to more than a quarter of a million people has exploded to almost $2 billion.

The national archive has been hit by an apparent security breach and has shut down the online search tool the public uses.

The Transport Agency is in a $600 million hole and cutting spending targets on work including improving local roads and public transport infrastructure.

Technologists in charge of doing CT and other scans at hospitals are exasperated at being paid $10,000 less than hospital clerical workers.

Police have not delivered on their promise to radically speed up protecting shops from ram raids, but the raids are dropping off anyway. Audio

Four hospital projects in the south of the South Island are in limbo.

Briefings by Stats NZ to ministers show it is engaged in a $100,000 "national trust and confidence marketing campaign".

Costs are rising and time is slipping on a new system to enable tolls to be charged on more roads.

The police are in limbo over what to do about their stun-gun tasers.