Phil Pennington

The country's troubled cycleway building programme faces tough choices as Waka Kotahi documents show details of blowouts and mistakes, including a million-dollar "clerical error".

A property developer is suing Christchurch City Council over a blighted office block it wants to demolish in a busy central mall.

An investigation into a big double-trailer truck losing half its heavy load on a highway shows it was not a one-off accident.

The Crown work safety watchdog says it was not aware of roadworks audits failed by a major contractor, but would not expect to be made aware.

Downer was operating roadworks labelled "dangerous" and "high risk" to road users the same month it was let off a prosecution over a cyclist's death.

It has emerged the seismic assessment that Hutt Hospital relied on for 10 years used a non-standard method that reduced the earthquake effects on a tower block since found to be quake-prone.

The new organisation replacing DHBs is urging authorities to think carefully before closing Hutt Hospital's main block.

Hospitals are girding themselves for changes in what earthquake hazards they face.

Volunteer firefighters say they support withdrawing a new type of fire hose that has been failing.

A new national national intelligence and security agency has not yet been established despite it being a key recommendation from the Christchurch mosque attacks inquiry.

It's been revealed New Plymouth firefighters searching for occupants inside a burning house had to pull out when their hose failed on Friday.

Oranga Tamariki's botched sexual violence project was hidden from top officials and the public services commissioner Peter Hughes, who was supposed to have oversight of it.

Tiwai Point aluminium smelter has doubled its clean-up costs to almost $700m, and documents show one reason is that getting rid of the most toxic of its waste is far from plain sailing.

A fire officer in charge at a blaze at an Auckland apartment block today says a delay in getting there could have ended up with two people trapped.

Charges have been dropped against two big contractors over unsafe roadworks where a young cyclist was killed in Christchurch.

Changes to a $60 million programme to help sexually abused children have been badly mismanaged by Oranga Tamariki, an independent review has found.

A fire investigator is accusing Fire and Emergency of trying to whitewash his inquiry into a firetruck breaking down.

The pollution watchdog has won new funding to help track the riskiest chemicals, though it is small scale.

Emails show senior Fire and Emergency managers played down the risks to crews and homes when a dodgy firetruck froze up at a big house fire in Wellington.

Newly released documents reveal the LynnMall knife attacker was assaulted twice in prison by other inmates, and blamed for starting a third fight.

Hutt Hospital's Heretaunga block is just the latest of many medical facilities around the country deemed at risk of a seismic event.

The Hutt City Council says it did not treat the local health board any differently to any other building owner.

Documents show the major hospital block about to be shut in Lower Hutt due to earthquake weakness was ruled not earthquake-prone just one year ago.

The steel industry says it's no bad thing if more scrap steel from the new Clean Car Upgrade Scheme gets sent offshore.

The country's car fleet is getting heavier. Here's what that means for emissions - and safety ratings.