Phil Pennington

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

The latest cost blowouts at hospital projects, including two Bay of Plenty mental health units, are expected to triple in price to $150 million.

The latest briefings to the Health Minister also show… Audio

Critical telecommunications equipment was unloaded off aircraft and replaced with other gear, on flights into regions cut off by Cyclone Gabrielle.

A new report into the emergency response says… Audio

The country is scrambling to deal with flood rescues in the face of the growing threat fuelled by climate change.

After New South Wales suffered extreme floods last year, the State government… Audio

Surf lifeguards say they've been told they should not have responded to the calls for help during Cyclone Gabrielle if they didn't have the right gear. They saved hundreds of people, but ruined their… Audio

Firefighters have warned Auckland Council the city's rapid growth means they sometimes run out of water to put out fires. They also can't get their trucks close to burning houses in high-density… Audio

Government officials are warning there are serious flaws in plans to disaster-proof critical infrastructure like phones, power and roads. Legislation to ensure there isn't a repeat of the crippling… Audio

Thousands of people in emergency housing motels are without higher fire safety protections, despite Cabinet promises six months ago to set standards for the first time. The government - which was… Audio

Fire alarms subject to "malicious" tampering, smoke stop doors missing and trickling hoses for fighting fires. These are some of what fire inspections and investigations have been finding at… Audio

Bay of Plenty firefighters have not inspected any emergency housing for almost a year, after they asked for stabproof vests and didn't get them.

In that time a fire broke out at a lodge in Taupō that… Audio

The head of a Rotorua security firm says fire safety inspectors faced with having to go into risky motels were right to ask for stabproof vests.

They did not get them, and consequently no Bay of… Audio

Firefighters have been getting slower at getting to emergencies, so their bosses have moved the goalposts.

Where once Fire and Emergency had a target to get paid crews to 90 percent of structure… Audio

When a tramper fell through substandard safety netting on a swingbridge in 2020, the Conservation Department took action to replace the faulty netting nationwide.

But it kept this under wraps until… Audio

Did you know, that the Auckland Harbour Bridge wobbles when enough people walk on it?

But that's more than just a fun fact, the bridge wobbles so much that Waka Kotahi says it could cause "serious… Audio