Phil Pennington

The government faced paying $10 million to get rid of 10,000 tonnes of hazardous waste in Mataura.

Police have been using or trialing at least three tools to search social media activity during investigations, but won't say what ones.

Land at Waiouru has been contaminated with heavy metals from ammunition, but the Defence Force has not revealed details of other firing ranges.

Two crucial initiatives to clamp down on unsafe building designs are yet to see the light of day, five years after the Kaikōura earthquake.

The Ministry of Education admits it should have done more to test the air at a Lower Hutt high school where toxic mould is hugely disrupting teaching.

A single household water supply could incur a bill of $14,000 annually in coming decades.

The government has been warned that closing down the country's only oil refinery could expose New Zealand to fuel security risks.

The FBI warns Auckland company Mega.NZ is being used by ransomware attackers. The company says it cannot rule out hackers are using its service to store patient data stolen from Waikato DHB.

Rio Tinto is taking over $4 million of costs for getting rid of toxic waste from Tiwai Pt aluminium smelter, but there remains a question mark over a $200m clean-up of other waste. Audio

Truckers meeting the Transport Agency today are expected to push for a climbdown on what they say is a botched tightening of brake rules.

The government and district health boards were warned last year the country's health IT systems are vulnerable to "significant" cyber threats. Audio

The way police investigated a crash in which two men died in a truck rollover resulted in an an eight-year fight for their families.

Stock is at a quarter of usual levels, while the global crunch on carmakers - due to a shortage of computer chips - shows no sign of easing.

New environmental data at Tiwai Point aluminium smelter shows sea level rise is destroying bores within scores of metres of where 100,000 tonnes of hazardous waste is stored.

Documents show transport officials wanted to remove dodgy handbrakes from more than 1000 trucks by the middle of last year but it still hasn't happened.

How does a school with the population of Eketāhuna, in Lower Hutt's wealthiest suburb, end up discombobulated by rotting classrooms?

After three years of pressure over warrants of fitness, vehicle inspectors can expect a softer approach, the Motor Trade Association says.

A new way of measuring what contractors are charging the government will set out the range of what is paid for each type of job.

Police drones are at risk of the data they gather ending up in cloud servers the Chinese government can access, but this can be managed, and the benefits outweigh the risks.

The police pushed for an urgent ban on a type of handbrake after a runaway truck killed a man, but transport officials took 18 months to do it.

The government does not have figures on how steeply contractor and consultants' pay rates have been going up.

The Security Intelligence Service says it has been "quite open" about the importance of data to detect and mitigate threats.

Public servants' pay is being frozen for three years, but not the rates the sector pays to thousands of contractors and consultants.

Hutt Valley High School has failed to secure a binding commitment from the Education Minister to quickly rebuild a mould-riddled teaching block.

An Australian billionaire is looking at using the aluminium smelter site at Tiwai Point near Bluff for environmentally friendly hydrogen production.