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More than 100 buildings in Palmerston North may have serious safety defects. 

The city council has known for 18 months that two-thirds of the buildings it's looked into are, or probably are, deficient, but tried to block releasing the investigation to RNZ.  

It's now had to declare seven of the buildings, all of them between eight and 14 years old are earthquake-prone. 

The council investigation indicates there could be about 100 buildings with multiple seismic design issues, some serious, in Palmerston North; but it does not know because it has not checked yet. 

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Are trucks being let off speeding tickets?  

In the four years up to 2017, static speed cameras snapped nearly 600,000 vehicles going over the speed limit nationwide.  

But just 207 of the speeding vehicles were trucks, all caught in Wellington.  

While the cameras do scan a vehicles height, width and length, it takes a human looking at a photo to determine whether a fine should be given.  

And truck drivers RNZ has spoken to say they don't get fined when speeding past a static camera.  

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Skirting the rules on illicit drugs for safety's sake 

Drug testing volunteers who set up at festivals and events are treading a legal grey area, held up by politicians with morals. 

NGO Know Your Stuff has been operating within-but-around the law for the past five years. In that time, 80 per cent of the drugs they tested at dozens of festivals were not what they were supposed to be. 

The Detail looks at what politicians think of legalising pill-checking. 

Samoa prison death: Jurisdiction separate to New Zealand - Winston Peters

Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters says he has sympathy for Hans Dalton’s whānau but can't do anything for them. 

The psychiatric patient was found half-submerged in a water drum his Tafa'igata prison cell in Samoa on Boxing Day 2012.   

Samoan authorities refused to hand over official information to a New Zealand coronial inquiry, which couldn't determine how he died.   

It's left Mr Dalton's whānau in limbo as they pursue legal action against the Samoan government over the 38-year-old's death. 

Ngāpuhi looks for new leader after Tau resignation 

People in the Far North are now looking for a new face to lead the country's biggest iwi, Ngāpuhi, following the unexpected resignation of Te Rūnanga ā iwi o Ngāpuhi chair, Sonny Tau. 

While the details of his departure are still unclear, some say his leadership was divisive and he should have gone years ago.   

Acting Chair, Mere Mangu, will fill the role until his term ends in just over a year, but said Mr Tau's resignation was a huge loss. 

Boy's kindergarten injuries 'heartbreaking' - mother 

The mother of a disabled boy who was badly injured at an Auckland kindy says her son is too scared to go back and she wants answers about exactly what happened to him. 

The Ministry of Education says that Manurewa West Kindergarten notified it last Thursday that a child had been injured on site and it is investigating. But it says it has not received a formal complaint from the family involved. 

The family say they complained directly to the police. 

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