Phil Pennington

Repairs and monitoring of water damage to parts of the near-new Waikato Expressway are expected to cost almost $60 million, even before a long-term fix is found.

A union has expressed "grave concern" after the Ministry of Education rebuffed its concerns over school bus safety, saying it was disappointed parents had been "unduly alarmed".

The Ministry of Education had previously said single routes - like one run by a community at Rere on the East Coast - would no longer be available.

A national system of paying for public transport tickets virtually anywhere - using cellphones, credit card or paywave - is beset by delays and uncertainty

The government has delayed the awarding of tenders to run school buses that carry 40 million passengers a year after First Union raised safety concerns.

A survivor of the disgraced theologian says the remarks to her by a newly-appointed member of the Church's royal commission liaison group are minimising and she should be removed.

A newly-released WorkSafe report into a 2016 bus crash that killed three people showed investigators found weaknesses in the bus firm's maintenance systems.

Two abuse survivors have quit a Royal Commission advisory group after being unknowingly exposed to a convicted paedophile.

Checks have been made on the quality of the earthquake design of several buildings in Christchurch, but Wellington has been unable to follow suit.

The expensive Transmission Gully project has concerns about technology for cameras and speed signs, but won't say what's going wrong.

A highly paid Transport Agency senior manager's team has tripled in size in a year, with most of the spots taken by contractors, documents show. Audio

The Catholic Church has yet to bring in external audits for child safety practices, two years after promising it would.

The Catholic Church is beginning its first-ever survey in New Zealand to get to grips with just how many priests abused how many children.

A health board says it has introduced an oversight group at a neonatal unit in South Auckland plagued by managers bullying nurses.

Bullying of highly trained nurses has been going on for years at one of New Zealand's busiest neonatal units for premature babies, newly released documents show.

An Australian chemical company that dismissed the man who went on to establish one of this country's biggest building product certifiers, believes he should never have been allowed into any kind of…

Three thousand truck and heavy vehicle certifications have been revoked this year, compared to just five in total two years ago.

One building was so bad it was pure luck no one was killed, and others have had to be shut down, concrete investigators have warned officials. Video

Documents show big problems surrounding the overhaul of the country's over-taxed IT systems for managing highway crashes, snarl-ups and roadworks.

Vehicle engineers are combing through truck chassis designs and inspection records for flaws that might lead to failures on the road.

RNZ's Phil Pennington talks with the new NZTA chairman about the embattled agency he has taken on, how it will respond to major operational issues, and tackling the rising road toll.

The Parliamentary Service is struggling to find out full details of the earthquake vulnerability of a 22-storey Wellington high-rise that is housing many of its staff.

A leading building products certifier has had its suspension lifted, despite the company's poor track record.

New legislation aimed at improving the government's battered building products quality assurance scheme, CodeMark, comes into force today.

Newly released documents show the country's leading building products certifier failed reviews repeatedly for years but officials let it carry on largely unfettered.