Phil Pennington

Health officials are defending their funding of nurse training, but fears remain the budget will not get enough trainees over the line.

Drivers' licence photos will not be run through the One Time Identity facial recognition system unless a person chooses it, the Transport Agency says.

Government agencies have a facial recognition system set up to share drivers' licence photos with the Covid-19 vaccine passport scheme.

A nursing educator says now is the time to boost the number of Māori nurse practitioners - currently, they make up just nine percent of the 612-strong practitioner workforce.

Despite the health workforce crisis, government health officials have given short shrift to an unprecedented proposal to double the numbers of specialised nurses who can cover for a shortfall of GPs.

The government is persisting with a way of buying hugely expensive medical devices that has been proven ineffective.

Health New Zealand is tackling a major rejig of Wellington Hospital as one of its first big new infrastructure jobs, amid huge pressures of time, money and construction labour.

"Stark" findings about the poor state of the Wellington region's hospitals have triggered a rush to get a $2 billion fixit plan underway.

The Transport Agency plans to spend more than $50 million tackling risks to its outdated technology that have been rated "critical" for years.

Used car dealers say some customers expecting a clean car rebate are getting hit with a fee instead, because official data is changing even as the vehicle is being sold.

Rusting bolts, failed asphalt tests and Covid-19 are all contributing to rising costs on major highway projects, but savings have been made.

Legal action is possible over the Ministry of Education vacating its Wellington head office due to earthquake risks.

The engineering firm whose report spurred workers to leave a Wellington multi-storey building warns that designing for earthquakes may get harder.

Poor financial management of sexual violence services has forced Oranga Tamariki to review how it used the funding it received.

A woman whose son was killed by a driver on a restricted licence says adults must take the law more seriously to save young people from themselves. Audio

Data has revealed police caught 5000 drivers breaking their restricted licence by carrying passengers when they shouldn't last year - and prosecuted just one of them.

Four years after Waka Kotahi was slammed for not doing its job of keeping roads safe, a core unit of it has been labelled so ineffective it is being pulled apart.

The police are looking to expand their use of a controversial evidence storage system run by an American company that supplies them with tasers.

The transport agency has exposed itself to financial claims in its rush to begin a cycleway project in the Hutt Valley.

Radiologists are describing a crisis across the country of short staffing, old scanning machines and millions spent on outsourcing.

Wellington Hospital is being forced to spend millions of dollars extra sending patients to private providers for MRI and CT scans as its old scanning machines fail to cope.

An Auckland councillor says she's "appalled" at cycleway project cost blowouts, while others say prices are being inflated by adding items that should be funded elsewhere.

The country's troubled cycleway building programme faces tough choices as Waka Kotahi documents show details of blowouts and mistakes, including a million-dollar "clerical error".

A property developer is suing Christchurch City Council over a blighted office block it wants to demolish in a busy central mall.

An investigation into a big double-trailer truck losing half its heavy load on a highway shows it was not a one-off accident.