Phil Pennington

Government-backed endorsements that made unsubstantiated fire safety claims about high-rise building cladding have been chopped entirely.

A Wellington Catholic college says it has no records of sex abuse committed by a priest against boys.

The New Zealand Transport Agency is signalling it will take a tough line against a major business that both imports used cars and tests if they are safe.

The latest round of tests outside two airbases has confirmed the extent of contamination by firefighting foam chemicals.

The mother of one of four victims in a suspected suicide cluster in Ōtaki has spoken of her desperate wait to get proper help.

Laboratory tests have found taps with 70 percent more lead leaching into drinking water than what is allowed. Audio

A mental health expert is calling health authorities' response woeful as Porirua and Ōtaki grapple with a spate of sudden deaths.

Investigators are looking urgently at whether to re-inspect vehicles signed off as if they were repaired by a suspended Auckland certifier.

A New Zealand family in Brisbane face paying $NZ70,000 a year to send their three-year-old daughter to preschool.

Bureaucrats are still spending massive sums on contractors and consultants despite the government's orders to cut it back.

A Porirua community is heartbroken about six sudden deaths but they could have been prevented, the youth worker says.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says it's clear the country has failed to deal with suicide and depression.

An elderly victim of sex abuse at an Upper Hutt college is demanding his abusers' portraits be taken down from the school's walls.

Locals say young people are traumatised after the suspected suicides in their community.

A heavy-vehicle engineer suspended over safety issues is defending his own record but says problems are widespread across the vehicle inspection industry.

Steel and Tube is insisting it never knowingly broke the law, even after copping the single biggest fine ever for misleading customers.

Serious questions need to be answered over the quality of brake testing on Waiheke Island, says Auckland MP Nikki Kaye.

Major vehicle inspection company VTNZ has broken road safety rules by using an inferior brake test on Waiheke Island for months, and the Transport Agency let it.

A notorious paedophile Catholic priest quietly transferred from New Zealand to the UK was free to keep abusing children for two more decades due to Church failings.

The Ministry of Health is investigating stainless steel piping put into a Christchurch hospital building and whether it may have to be replaced.

A Catholic secondary school says no investigation report exists into a sex abuse complaint now being looked into by the police.

Firefighting foam contamination has been found above safety trigger points in some samples around Whenuapai airbase in Auckland.

An ex-Catholic priest living in Asia who was nicknamed "the Phantom Feeler" by boys at a leading Wellington Catholic school is being investigated by police.

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.