Phil Pennington

A coroner has described how the precarious working conditions of two young provincial men at a leading labour-hire company ended in a double fatality.

Floyd Harris and his passenger Jake Ginders died… Audio

Five radiology departments at public hospitals have moved into high-risk territory in the last few months.

The latest independent assessment of medical scanning departments against international… Audio

Documents show the government expects problems ahead over road user charges on electric vehicles.

The documents talk about an "e-RUC" for EVs, about debt and growing numbers not paying.

But mostly… Audio

A senior doctor blew the whistle for months on unsafe radiology services at Hawke's Bay Hospital.

Dr Bryan Wolf says it's criminal that despite his and RNZ's efforts to make this public, it's taken… Audio

A hack of US government cloud email accounts blamed on a group linked to China raises questions about the New Zealand government's growing reliance on American data firms.

The government here is… Audio

A damning report on health services that Te Whatu Ora kept hidden for months by using whistleblowing laws, has finally been released to RNZ.

The whistle-blower, a senior doctor, says he told the… Audio

The only substantial document firefighters had about landslide risks prior to the fatal Muriwai slip in February, was a 10-year-old manual from Sweden.

The document was in English, but it said little… Audio

The government could use private sector investment to build public hospitals, a major shake up to how health projects are funded.

Te Whatu Ora has set up a new national infrastructure team which is… Audio

The Social Development Ministry has embarked on a $2 billion makeover that consultants, called "strategic partners", are already making many millions of dollars from. The programme overspent by at… Audio

The Cook Strait ferry Kaitaki lost power in January due to an old engine part which ruptured.

RNZ can reveal just how many old parts were in its engines at the time.

Documents show three other… Audio

Transport agency Waka Kotahi is insisting the country's newest motorway north of Auckland is built to last, despite extreme weather triggering a big landslip which is now under urgent repair.

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The Auckland Anniversary floods have reactivated a landslide that now threatens a new billion-dollar motorway north of the city.

The Pūhoi to Warkworth highway has only been open a month, but cracks… Audio

The government rushed into promoting much more intensive housing with zero advice on the higher fire risks.

An OIA response shows the Housing Minister Megan Woods got no advice despite Fire and… Audio

The national health agency Te Whatu Ora has been sending letters to cancer patients in the far south warning of long delays, despite claiming it was seeing most patients on time.

Te Whatu Ora told… Audio

New Zealand has given $38 million to China over a Canadian-Chinese businessman who laundered millions here for years, then last month tried to become mayor of Toronto.

Xiaohua Gong ran under the… Audio

Tomorrow is the deadline for Dunedin hospital to report back on how it is improving its gap-ridden services for cancer patients in the Southern district.

But in key ways it has been going backwards… Audio

Big moves are underway to fix the way people's health information is shared by doctors and hospitals.

Health authorities have chosen a company to set up the first-ever national data platform, and are… Audio

Health officials in charge of getting massive hospital projects built have been making basic, costly mistakes for years around budgets, timings and design.

That's according to a newly released report… Audio

US tech giant Microsoft pushed the Education Ministry to adopt an artificial intelligence programme for continuous live reporting on children and teachers in the classroom.

Emails released under the… Audio