Phil Pennington

Almost $50 million of repairs to a rutted expressway between Auckland and Hamilton are mired in delays and question marks.

The latest low point in the decade long saga of State Highway One outside… Audio

The country's courts are jam packed with cases, and the country's prisons are jam packed with people being held on remand in custody.

Now a new project to cut those logjams has worked, but only in… Audio

Is it a case of the green washing of highways, or just bureaucratic slackness? Transport agency Waka Kotahi has been making exaggerated claims about how 'green' its road building is.

It has said four… Audio

The new government wants to stop any more public servants getting extra pay for being skilled in te reo Māori.

More than a dozen ministries and departments pay bonuses of up to $3,500 a year… Audio

Urban Search and Rescue have trucks so old they keep breaking down and are not safe.

This, from OIA papers that include an email from the day Cyclone Gabrielle hit in which a senior Urban Search and… Audio

The country's fleet of specialist search and rescue vehicles is so bad that the rescuers have begun rebelling.

New papers show Search and Rescue teams have warned Fire and Emergency for four years… Audio

A Justice Ministry team in charge of fixing the country's run down courts has hired a private contractor on $2,000 a day.

An OIA shows the property team has been flooded with contractors and… Audio

A landmark motorway once lauded for its green credentials is now racking up environmental black marks.

Transmission Gully is being operated near Wellington by a consortium of financiers and… Audio

A US contractor has signalled it is running behind time on its half-a-billion-dollar New Zealand transport project.

Cubic Transportation Systems has suffered recent setbacks, losing out on huge… Audio

Eight years after a toddler died at the hands of his mother's boyfriend in Southland, a coroner has finally issued the official findings in the case.

There are no surprises - four state agencies have… Audio

The government begins the roll out of new facial recognition technology next week despite an "untested risk" around racial bias.

No tests have been done for bias on New Zealand's unique population… Audio

The country's nationwide public health system set up last year to address weaknesses brutally exposed by Covid, is really struggling.

The confusion and duplication is such that in one case 10… Audio

A progress report on the new health authority - Te Whatu Ora - has found major shortfalls, 16 months into its rollout.

The reforms that set up Te Whatu Ora last year are meant to have most of the… Audio

A landmark threat-reporting system for the public to counter terrorism and extremist violence is in limbo.

The outgoing government failed to get a final plan for the new system over the line before… Audio

Almost six months after the fatal Loafers Lodge fire in Wellington, Fire and Emergency has yet to conclude its review of how it responded.

It says the independent review has been delayed.

Reporter… Audio

Facial recognition technology has failed almost half the time in tests of a landmark government system called Identity Check.

Official information documents raise the prospect of it failing even more… Audio

Police want to cut the number of people remanded in custody.

Forty-four percent of people in our prisons are on remand and police saying reducing that number is a top priority even while… Audio

The police are trying to get officers back on to the front line, after they were diverted to help courts facing a growing backlog of jury trials.

Police's own problems with lack of resources and… Audio

Advocates for cancer patients say they are suffering and dying waiting for a new national system to be set up, that will bring better access to care.

Te Whatu Ora is in the early stages of… Audio