Phil Pennington

Asbestos that scores an 11 on a risk scale that tops out at 12 has been found in the ceiling at Auckland's main fire station.

Retired senior US military officers have been landing high-paying government jobs in New Zealand including with the GCSB spy agency.

Local advisory committees are meant to play a key role in getting communities the emergency response resources they need.

More and more junior doctors are being lost in the training pipeline before they emerge to bolster the stressed ranks of specialists, data suggests.

The ministry is considering spending about $1 billion on replacing the existing Seasprite chopper fleet.

New Zealand faces higher hurdles using its military helicopters alongside its defence partners now that Australia is switching choppers.

The government also engaged Microsoft to look at questions of sovereignty and citizenship to help government services go digital.

The junior doctors' union is on the verge of bringing in nationally coordinated training for the first time.

Problems experienced by firefighters attending Lower Hutt's Alicetown Foodmarket shows the FENZ fleet is ageing, a union says.

Senior and junior doctors say the government's national workforce taskforce set up months ago with fanfare has not delivered.

Health bosses desperate to recruit new cancer doctors will need to sell them on cramped spaces and shuttling up and down the street most days.

Gisborne's main water supply pipe was identified as at unacceptable risk of catastrophic failure months before Cyclone Gabrielle smashed it. Audio

Microsoft has joined Amazon in signing agreements with the government to collaborate on projects, regulatory changes and national cybersecurity priorities.

The workplace safety watchdog began research into the labour-hire industry safety within weeks of two temp workers being killed, but it never investigated their deaths.

A major infrastructure company says it is in a good position to help out over public health workforce shortages, while still rewarding investors.

A Wellington mother of two says she has had to pay over $30,000 in her fight against cancer because the public system let her down.

Waka Kotahi has extended its investigation into wheels snapping off mobile dental trailers to encompass the whole supply chain of trailer parts.

Crippling doctor workforce shortages have closed down some cancer services in the southern district entirely, as well as sparking a national shake-up. Audio

Auckland councillors have voted to lower noise limits on helicopters on Hauraki Gulf islands. Video

Heavy dental clinic trailers are still being towed between schools even after an investigation found their wheel studs are likely to snap off after just 3000km of use.

The police are going ahead with updating their old tasers but are still not sure how.

It comes under a new strategy led by the judiciary to take the justice system fully digital.

Vital advice to overcome weaknesses in national security still has not gone to Cabinet months after it was due.

New figures show the government has called on just 3 percent of the half a billion dollars approved to build or expand mental health hospital facilities. Audio

A report has found helicopters buzzing Waiheke Island are not unsafe, overly noisy or breaking the rules.