Phil Pennington

Analysis - There were big promises from the government in 2014 about making streamable classic New Zealand TV and movie titles available online. Phil Pennington asks what happened.

The country's core project to save New Zealand's television history has put just a handful of titles on the internet compared to the 20,000 the public was promised three years ago.

Structural engineers still partly in the dark about how earthquakes damage high-rises are pushing for greater caution over a common type of flooring.

Wellington City Council is looking at stepping in as lender of last resort for building owners with high earthquake risk facades.

A New Zealand man who went to Queensland on a family visit now finds himself detained on remote Christmas Island.

If people are killed or injured when non-structural parts of a building fall in an earthquake, building owners and employers will be liable, a lawyer says.

A New Zealand expat family has been left thousands of dollars out of pocket by the Australian government's flip-flops over changes to citizenship and university fees.

Shop canopies so unsafe they could collapse on pedestrians and kill them are a nationwide hazard, according to a steel frame engineering company.

With owners of 100 Wellington buildings ordered to reinforce facades by next March, half are increasingly unlikely to meet the deadline and say it makes no sense when the whole building needs fixing.

Building inspections show most Auckland and Wellington high-rises failed to meet earthquake standards to stop people being hit by falling objects.

Civil defence emergency centres in quake zones may not meet the rigorous building standards required for them to withstand a big shake.

Analysis - Facing deportation from Australia? Best hope your son's a footy star if you want a sympathetic run in the local press, Phil Pennington writes.

AJ Graham - who spent two and a half years in a prison after founding the Rebels biker gang in Tasmania - has returned to New Zealand.

The Australian Government has been forced to shelve university funding plans that would have doubled or tripled tuition fees for New Zealanders.

The secret children of a Catholic priest in New Zealand are about to reveal their identity to their local bishop.

Too many low-level offenders are being swept up by an Australian immigration clampdown that's affected hundreds of New Zealanders, police officers there say.

Immigration investigators are looking into a large Auckland private tertiarty institute "for issuing receipts containing false or misleading information".

A lawyer says it will cost New Zealand expatriates many thousands of dollars in legal fees to challenge immigration detention in Australia.

The law gives Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton sweeping powers to cancel the visa of any non-citizen whose presence "may, or would, be a risk to the community".

A New Zealand company's strategy of importing cheap but high-quality steel from China has contributed to its undoing, industry players say.

The Motor Industry Association wants owners who ignore repeated requests to have airbags fixed to be denied a warrant of fitness for their vehicle. Audio

A district council chief executive is keeping the water to a Māori land protester turned off despite health officials telling him it's illegal.

A building surveyor has revealed details of hidden and sometimes life-threatening building faults, including an apartment block not bolted to its foundations.

A local council that stopped screening people's emails after it was forced to admit it was doing so is poised to start up the interceptions again under new rules.

A report on cameras on fishing boats, dismissed by the Primary Industries Minister, was described as "robust and sound" by a top ministry science advisor.