New imaging technology has revealed hundreds of major buildings nationwide have defective or missing concrete or reinforcing steel.
Concrete investigators say their scanning shows many buildings have not been constructed according to the plans.
Critical structural parts were defective or missing in 1100 of the 1200 buildings that were scanned since 2016.
The weakened structures include apartment blocks, offices, public building, most constructed since the 1980s, and some new or still-to-be-finished buildings, including in Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Hawke's Bay, Wellington and Christchurch.
In the latest Newshub-Reid research poll National's popularity has received a 6.5 percent boost to 43.9 percent, surpassing Labour.
The Labour Party's public support is now at 41.6 percent - a 9.2 drop since the last poll in June.
However, its coalition partners New Zealand First is up to 4 percent and the Greens saw a minor increase, putting them at 6.3 percent.
How much support will Goff get from his new council?
As Phil Goff prepares for another three years as the mayor of Auckland the level of support he will have in the council is still unknown.
With special votes still to be counted some provisional results could yet be overturned.
Staunch Goff opponent Mike Lee appears to be out and there will be at least two if not four new councillors taking up seats in the Auckland Town Hall.
Phil Goff will be live on Morning Report just after 8.30am.
We are under surveillance and don't really care
It can be hard to know how much we should care about our digital footprint - but like it or not, most of us have one.
Data collection can be a scary thought to some; a digital dystopia where our private information is collected without us really noticing and sold on.
But then again, maybe it’s a good thing.
Stats NZ has upped the ante when it comes to data collection. The Detailtoday looks at whether we should be worried.
Tuia 250: waka voyage a chance to 'connect with taiao'
Guided only by the stars and the Moon like the first Polynesian navigators over 750 years ago, RNZ reporter Meriana Johnsen joins the crew onboard Haunui waka, on an overnight haerenga from Anaura Bay to Gisborne, as the waka flotilla makes its way around Aotearoa for the Tuia 250 commemorations.
Parliament’s hidden fourth chamber
You’ve seen the debating chamber at Parliament on TV, you might be aware of a second one (our defunct Upper House); perhaps you know of a third (the emergency back-up chamber).
But wait there’s more...
There are actually four debating chambers at Parliament.
In the fourth chamber they consider some pretty radical laws. Recently the question debated was whether to ban the use of pineapple on pizza. Can you hear the cheering in Naples from where you are?
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