Phil Pennington

A transgender woman has accused prison guards of groping her during routine searches.

The Ministry for Primary Industries is refusing to release the final report into fish dumping that sparked an ongoing independent investigation.

Fiji's international airport overhaul, being done by a New Zealand contractor, went months behind schedule because of bad steel.

A NZ couple has won the right to pursue a racial discrimination case against ANZ for selling them life insurance which is worthless because they are not citizens.

The Transport Agency is refusing to name the company which manufactured the failed steel used in the Huntly Bypass or the laboratory that tested and passed it.

The Chinese factory that made the steel strand for West Auckland's Waterview Connection roading project has provided fake test certificates for other steel.

Hundreds of tonnes of steel that does not meet the New Zealand standard has been used to build the huge Waterview highway and tunnel in Auckland.

ANALYSIS: New Zealand rules governing the steel that goes into highways, bridges and tunnels are much looser than in Australia.

Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce has given an assurance the Government encourages all its agencies to follow the rules when awarding building contracts.

A NZer held at an Australian immigration detention centre will find out today if his leg has to be amputated, and blames substandard medical care at the lock-up.

A fisherman targeted in an investigation into dumping has admitted that what he was doing was illegal, but says he was never charged. Audio

ANALYSIS: If Fairfax and APN merge their New Zealand operations, will public interest journalism suffer and who will step into the void?

Processed and toughened glass is flooding in from overseas and gaps are showing up in the safety controls.

The company signed up to do the single most expensive building in the Christchurch rebuild is centre stage in a corruption inquiry in the Australian Senate.

ANALYSIS: The government has been trying to reassure people over the seismic safety of reinforced steel mesh. Phil Pennington assesses whether homeowners have been put at ease.