Stories by Phil Pennington

Newly released information further tarnishes the government's gold-plated building products approval scheme Codemark.

Safety certificates for heavy vehicles were issued by a Transport Agency inspector, despite an 18-month roller brake machine breakdown.

Three trucks have been ordered off the road in Auckland for safety reasons, and the engineer who certified them has been suspended.

Newly-released information shows checks on engineers who inspect big trucks plunged at the same time as the number of large rigs on the road jumped.

A group of northern Horowhenua ratepayers are trying to break away from their district council.

The Catholic Church has withheld its findings about a child sex abuse accusation for months from the man who laid the complaint.

Engineers have found that large parts of Taranaki Base Hospital - including its emergency department, intensive care unit and maternity block - are probably earthquake prone.

The Marist Fathers has admitted a priest who led one of its top secondary schools sexually abused children.

Fire and Emergency New Zealand is refusing to pay for blood tests for firefighters concerned about exposure to the damaging chemicals PFAS.

Auckland and Northland hospitals have had to temporarily quake-proof their data centres after a warning they were not up to scratch. Video

Christchurch's St Bede's College will appoint an independent reviewer to look into its handling of a child sex abuse complaint in 2011.

A Catholic bishop says the Church could consider releasing the names of clergy who abuse children, even if they don't go through the courts.

Almost 50 buildings in Wellington have been identified with combustible cladding similar to that which fuelled the Grenfell Tower fire.

Two Canterbury men are accusing the Catholic church of enabling a priest to carry out a string of child sex attacks in multiple South Island parishes. Video

A sex abuse victim is calling for a prestigious Catholic school to sack its rector for not removing a teacher who sexually assaulted him years ago. Video

Celebrity lawyer Erin Brockovich has been making waves across the Tasman, accusing authorities of inaction over water contamination from firefighting foam, but the real homespun hero when it comes to…

Farms and lifestyle blocks beside Palmerston North Airport are being alerted to firefighting foam contamination in waterways.

Nurses are warning changes to Plunket services in Auckland will cut clinics or clinic time for many babies, but the organisation says its services are not changing.

Contamination from banned chemicals in firefighting foam at levels above safe drinking water guidelines has been found in streams around Palmerston North airport.

An American man forcibly separated by the Catholic Church from his parents as a toddler has, seven decades later, finally learned the truth about his father - by exhuming his body.

South Auckland's embattled health board has begun investigating itself after receiving a scathing reprimand from the country's health boss.

An official investigation has raised serious questions about multiple financial irregularities at Counties Manukau District Health Board.

A court has accepted a woman who served in the air force was sexually harassed by a sergeant known as "Groper Roper" but barred her from claiming damages as she took legal action too late.

Port Taranaki knew about groundwater contamination for more than a year before the public was told, documents show.

Many major buildings with combustible cladding are not being properly audited to make sure all their safety systems work properly.