Phil Pennington

The police are using drones that some federal authorities have banned in the United States over fears of Chinese spying.

The world's leading drone maker DJI supplies all New Zealand police's drones.

More than 250 children in Taihape face another winter in a school that officials have known for a decade is leaking, afflicted by backed-up sewage, and has substandard classrooms.

A parent and ex… Audio

Engineers who keep the country's truck fleet safe are crying foul over a goverment agency they say is broken, biased and rife with bullying.

The accusations contained in an 18-page letter to the… Audio

An investigation into a gas leak on board a Cook Strait ferry reveals how an electrician had to be "coached through" identifying and isolating the leak as they lacked training and experience.

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The aluminium smelter at Bluff has stockpiled more than 100,000 tonnes of cyanide-laced waste less than 100 metres from a fast-eroding Southland beach.

The smelter company won't reveal its plans for… Audio

A transport industry group and a drivers' lobby group say the WorkSafe is not up to investigating bad road crashes.

New information about an investigation into a truck crash that killed two children… Audio

Young people setting up the country's first national network for young Muslims are looking to nationwide community meetings on the mosque attacks as a litmus test for the Government.

They insist a… Audio

Workplace safety planning at managed isolation facilities is taking months to roll out by government officials. The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has been in charge since July but… Audio

The son of a woman who died aged 100 in a troubled Lower Hutt rest home says its systemic problems accelerated her decline.

The Woburn Masonic Care home in the Hutt's wealthiest suburb is having its… Audio

An Auckland woman is furious her gynaecological operation went ahead in a theatre crowded with people she did not give permission to be there.

The woman says North Shore Hospital breached her rights… Audio

The electronic spy agency is defending a dearth of reports it got about far right threats in the lead-up to last year's mosque attacks.

Out of 7500 intelligence reports received in a three-month… Audio

Controversy continues to dog how hospitals get permission to operate on patients.

The guidelines have now been strengthened - a little bit - but women's health advocates say they are still too weak.

Transport officials planned to ask residents near the Auckland Harbour Bridge if their properties could be tested for heavy metals, without telling them contamination had already been found nearby.

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Several key security and intelligence agencies failed to do their counter-terrorism job very well, or at all.

There remains no way of holding them to account.

Those are two crucial findings of the… Audio

An Australian counter-terrorism specialist says bosses of NZ's national security services should lose their jobs over the mosque attacks.

Joe Siracusa who is a professor of Human Security at Curtin… Audio

High-tech investigative tools being imported by the police here are attracting controversy overseas.

Many of these are capable of facial recognition, though police say they are not using this on the… Audio

Workplace safety investigators into a Desert Road double-fatality smash failed to record, months later, that a baby boy died alongside his preschool brother.

WorkSafe closed the file four days after… Audio

A big user of industrial-size plastic bags has found a way to re-use them, helping stem the dumping of thousands of bags each year into landfills.

Bureaucracy at the wharf is standing in the way of… Audio