Stories by Phil Pennington

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.

Tight reins on pay increases for thousands of public servants are expected to ease within days.

Government ministers are considering what to do about large cost escalations and delays in mental health building projects.

The work safety watchdog kept the families of two temp workers killed in a road crash in the dark, and now says it regrets that.

New figures out on what the government pays contractors show steep rate rises of up to 46 percent, but also drops of up to 15 percent.

The mother of one of two temporary employees who died during a work commute has told an inquest he was "too scared to say no" to driving.

Internal documents from national health agency Te Whatu Ora show in January it was aiming to consider "lessons" from public-private partnerships.

The ongoing threat of landslides in Auckland sparked a plea from emergency officials for a rapid rescue team to be on call 24/7.

Whakatāne hospital's acute mental health facility is under threat from newly identified earthquake hazards, and the unravelling of government plans.

Company directors are falling short of their legal obligations to keep workers safe, seven years after law changes sparked by the Pike River mine disaster, a new study shows.