Stories by Phil Pennington

Hospitals across the central North Island are struggling to overhaul unstable medical scanning technology, with the number of faults rising from 30 a year to more than 800.

Analysis - The militaries of 30 countries, led by the US, are teaming up for a military exercise that marks new tensions in relations with China, Phil Pennington writes.

An 83-year-old fisherman wants to know if he is being given the heave-ho from his hut because a company wants to launch rockets nearby.

The government has quietly ushered in a new digital trust framework designed to be the answer to people's experiences with fraud, doubt and lack of trust online.

Analysis - The housing minister wants to "flood" the market with smaller dwellings. What does that look like in other countries? Phil Pennington investigates.

A meeting in an emergency communications centre got in the way of getting an ambulance to a fatal house fire.

The US says it needs access to launchpads in the Southern Hemisphere, but it's not known if that includes one at Kaitorete Spit.

A project to upgrade the transport technology network essential to highway safety and responding to crashes hit such big problems it had to be redesigned, rebuilt and has been delivered 18 months…

International commercial and military demand is growing for launch sites and Kaitorete Spit is a leading candidate.

Oranga Tamariki has admitted it does not know just how many children it holds the records of, who were once in the state's care, or all of their names.

The agency' social workers have "genuine fear and concern" around court - even though that is one of their core statutory roles.

A Canterbury work safety group is shutting down, saying money out of government agencies has dried up.

Oranga Tamariki has amended the restructuring and will retain a "separate information management function".

The central health agency is promising changes to how it handles OIA requests after it dealt with one from RNZ unlawfully.

New Zealand's largest privately-owned medical laboratory has posted a $16m loss for last year, after recording a $13m profit in the previous year.

The work, which looked to share information across the emergency services, has been dropped due to public service cuts.

Public sector cuts have stopped work on a half-built emergency coordination system, similar to what Cyclone Gabrielle reviews say the country urgently needs.

Oranga Tamariki has apologised to RNZ and made changes to how it handles information requests.

新西兰与其他14个国家共同加入了美国太空军的"国际事务办公室"，并在至少三个领域表现活跃。

Analysis - NZ is increasingly active in the US military's Space Force, but how bold can it be when America's moves to ramp up space capabilities are encased in anti-China rhetoric?

US documents show Aotearoa is increasingly aligning itself with America's big push to bring allies into its defensive and offensive space plans.

The vast bulk of Transpower's electricity towers are over 35 years old, and few have been put up in the last three decades.

The monitoring is a "rich ... and potentially risky source of information" for combating crime and detecting fraud, a researher says.

Oranga Tamariki says it has changed its public sector cuts proposal so that fewer lawyers' jobs would be shed, so as not to put service delivery at risk.

Dozens of analysts at Oranga Tamariki have access to personal details about at-risk children, which they should not have.