Phil Pennington

Watercare in Auckland is looking to bring forward its plans to take more water out of the Waikato River and change its drought trigger levels, as a result of contamination by 'forever' chemicals in… Audio

The police have quietly lowered the threshold for issuing speeding fines through its road camera network.

While it's not clear exactly what the new threshold is, four times more tickets have been… Audio

Police have caught twice as many people speeding on mobile speed cameras this year than last.

New road policing offence figures show the 376,000 drivers caught have been stung with more than $12m in… Audio

Documents show Oranga Tamariki has has been stumbling towards budget blowouts with loose and patchy financial controls.

Its shortcomings in protecting children have been the subject of more than a… Audio

The media mega-merger is paying out up to almost $9000 dollars a week for some high-paying jobs being done by contractors.

At least a quarter of transition money of $38 million set aside to combine… Audio

Five years after being set up, FENZ has not completed any local plans to assess each community's fire and flooding risks even though it is required by law.

It has set up just seven of the 16 local… Audio

The amount the country's hospitals owe to more than a quarter of a million people who work for them has exploded to almost $2 billion.

But the delays in sorting out how to pay people are only getting… Audio

Technicians in charge of doing CT and other scans at hospitals are exasperated at being paid $10,000 less than clerks. 

They have been left in the wake after hospital clerical staff and… Audio

Police have not delivered on their promise in August to radically speed up protecting shops from ram raids, but raids are dropping off anyway.

They promised by now to have assessed about 300 shops.

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Fake websites, disinformation and anti-government sentiment are key risks that could undermine next year's Census.

The new threats are emerging several months  after the Parliament protests.

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RNZ can reveal which other hospital radiology departments are at high risk of failing to meet international standards.

They are Wellington, the Hutt and Hawke's Bay hospitals. We also now know Nelson… Audio

The government's shiny new Identity Check online verification tool is being piloted, using a common Google technology that is copping heat in Europe.

That's because Google Analytics transfers data to… Audio

Newly released emails show a roading company agitated for months to get  Waka Kotahi to do more after a roadworker was killed.

Fulton Hogan was still pressuring the agency for a mandatory recall to… Audio

Five of the country's public radiology departments in hospitals are at high risk, and another two are at medium risk.

A further three are not even trying to comply with international standards. The… Audio

Imagine if you had to pledge fealty to the Chinese state just to buy a bathroom mirror or a lightbulb.

Well, there's every chance you already have, but you didn't know about it.

Phil Pennington… Audio

Two public hospitals have so few radiology staff their departments have lost their accreditation for competency - but are doing scans anyway.

Health authorities say the unapproved services at… Audio

The new national transport ticketing system announced by the Government last week will be rolled out by an American contractor which provides training for military drones.

The Waka Kotahi deal is… Audio

The police are looking to a hugely profitable US taser maker for new ways to capture sensitive criminal evidence and store it overseas.

They are also considering getting new stun guns, and possibly… Audio