A surveyor said temporary repairs were 'like putting a finger in a dam'.

Documents show $8.6m spent to extend learning hub while mould festers at kids' hospital.

Union calls for budget rules to be ripped up after revelations about rotten hospital.

Staff were evacuated from the Justice Precinct after faeces dripped through the ceiling.

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Lesley and George bought a house to escape tragedy. What they got was even more trauma.

Leaky school repairs are about to get faster and cheaper but an expert warns against it.

COMMENT: Banks' refusal to loan and recladding costs are forcing many to the wall.

Councils and apartment industry to look into prevalence of flammable cladding.

Stigma of uncertainty could linger for homeowners 15 years after repairs, researchers find.

The Supreme Court has criticised leaky homes legislation as slow and "tortuous" and ruled in favour of a Whangarei homeowner.

Bat Palms Apartment block in Browns Bay that is facing a hefty repair bill due to it being a leaky building.

Around $2.1 million will be invested to build a total of six new classrooms at schools in the Wellington and Kapiti regions, Education Minister Hekia Parata announced today.

Cambridge High School and Ngaruawahia High School Waikato will both undergo major redevelopments at a cost of $17 million.

For one family, their leaky home presents a life or death situation for their 10-year-old.

Auckland Council has budgeted $291mi for the leaky building disaster and its financial forecasts indicate it will become an inter-generational issue.

A dispute between a Tauranga builder and the Ministry of Education over school weathertightness issues tipped the builder into liquidation, an official report says.

A lawsuit against building products maker James Hardie Industries has lost its bid to let potential plaintiffs join after a Dec. 31 cut-off date.

Funding has been confirmed for a class action lawsuit against the makers of defective plaster cladding.

New Zealand's biggest leaky building payout points to serious flaws in our system, according to an industry expert.

The 150 owners of the 12-level Nautilus tower in Orewa were awarded the payout in a decision released yesterday by Justice Murray Gilbert.

Owners of Orewa apartment tower the Nautilus have won $25.07 million, the largest amount awarded to leaky building owners in New Zealand.

Many owners of big apartment blocks are going through their second leaky building repair project, after the first fix-up failed.

Repairs have begun to one of Auckland's largest leaky apartment complexes.

Fallout from New Zealand's leaky building disaster continues. The case related to an alleged failure of a cladding system, although the builder defended that.

Facing huge bills to fix their leaky houses, more homeowners have joined the new $100 million-plus leaky home class action.

Gay Johnson spent $600,000 fixing her leaking Castor Bay house so she joined a new $100 million legal action to fight for compensation.

Initial investigations have begun into how to fix one of New Zealand's biggest leaky-building towers.

A High Court stoush between a lawyer suing her former partners for establishing a new firm without her has settled.

Gardens School in Manurewa was one of the biggest casualties of the leaky building crisis and has been leaking ever since it was built in the late 1990s.