Phil Pennington

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.

The tech in hospitals throughout the country is "fragile and fragmented", with 1000 devices over a decade old.

Chris Bishop said on Thursday Simeon Brown had "already signalled that each of our new Roads of National Significance will be tolled". But will they?

The extent of WorkSafe's woes, and its deficit - and plans to cut 170 staff to plug it last year - have been revealed in a newly released Cabinet paper.

The United States unilaterally added New Zealand to its military-industrial base framework 18 months ago.

RNZ has learned Oranga Tamariki has begun asking non-government organisations for help.