Stories by Phil Pennington

As the Defence Minister meets her counterpart in Melbourne to raise the prospect of joining the alliance, documents show officials have talked it up.

Building control officers in Christchurch have caught a private company's compliance manager forging fire safety certificates, including for a school.

The Department of Internal Affairs has stopped the $150m plan that aimed to take key data into cloud storage.

Officers issued almost 290,000 tickets in the first nine months of the year - up by about 60,000, police say.

Officers issued almost 290,000 tickets in the first nine months of the year - up by about 60,000, police say.

New Zealand is in a group of allies the US has asked to stump up more money for military satellites.

The number of mobile speed camera fines and seat belt offences have also shot up.

The claims were lodged in May 2022 on behalf of 91 staff after the High Court ruled a vaccine mandate for police was unlawful.

Rocketing demand from private health practices in Auckland has been pushing public pathology services to the brink. Audio

The United States military is pushing ahead with its plan to flood the Asia-Pacific region with drones - but New Zealand's military is not on board with it.

Analysis - How much is the taxpayer entitled to know? The 26,000 OIA responses from 99 public agencies suggest how many lawyers were in the room when they were signed off.

A multi-billion-dollar company wants the government to hurry up and help it build hospitals, in what could be a seismic shift in health infrastructure.

Wellington City Council is hopeful buildings in Te Ngākau Civic Square will be fine in a big flood - but that could be up-ended by fresh climate change data.

The hospital is a national centre for training and has just months to fix the problems or lose its right to train juniors.

Papers show the Education Ministry is deepening its ties with big US tech firms.

Police have blanked out virtually the entire contents of an assessment of a new public reporting system for security threats.

Almost $50 million of repairs to State Highway 1 between Auckland and Hamilton are mired in delays and question marks.

The coalition deal with ACT commits the government to investigate build and lease-back arrangements.

由美国共和党、民主党议员联合发起的多个国家人工智能协同项目可能包括新西兰，国防部长表示正在寻求进一步信息。

A new way to unjam the country's logjammed courts, the Backlog Project, has helped a bit - but ran into its own shortages, of staff, communications, targets and direction, even of police cells.

US lawmakers are considering a bill that would involve New Zealand joining in on military artificial intelligence to beat out China.

Public Service Minister Nicola Willis says she will ask for advice on to stop the extra pay being negotiated into future collective agreements.

Waka Kotahi has been making exaggerated claims about how 'green' its highways are. This has come to light amid investigations into Transmission Gully's impacts on fish, streams and Porirua Harbour.

The police say they probably would not have caused a mistrial at a murder trial if they had had High Court guidelines.

Wellington ratepayers can breathe a sigh of relief that the central library rebuild is not going the way of the Town Hall upgrade.