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Raymond Teinaki and his family, who have lived at a boarding house for seven years, have given up hope of ever getting a state house.

The Ministry of Social Development gave information about state care abuse claims to police against victims' wishes, their lawyer says. Audio

Power Play - National is offering more of the same, while attacking Labour's vision-with-values, writes Jane Patterson.

The setting of a child poverty reduction target by the National Party leader - out of the blue - has been met with some surprise, but also plenty of support.

Neither National nor Labour will commit to a specific target to reduce suicide, but their health spokespeople say 20 percent would be a sensible one.

The gender pay gap in New Zealand has had its biggest reduction since statistics were first recorded - but it is still not as low as it was five years ago.

In the four years Debbie Munroe has been helping fill Manurewa's bellies she's seen an explosion in the numbers of people sleeping rough, she says.

There was heckling and hollering at Christchurch's largest polytechnic today, with political candidates taking questions from local voters. Video

The United Nations has recommended the New Zealand government establish an independent commission of inquiry into the abuse of children and adults with disabilities while in state care from 1950 to…

Tina Fey's cake eating; Dylan Roof's radicalisation; sexism in Silicon Valley; and much more.

Up to 5000 people a day are enrolling to vote, with enrolments tracking slightly ahead of the 2014 election, the Electoral Commission says.

A report on problems faced by people who rent their homes has found many landlords provide poor living conditions.

The Green Party has restated its commitment to implementing a capital gains tax if it gets into government, saying it is "time to just get in with it".

Chile's constitutional court has voted to approve a bill to ease the country's total ban on abortions.

Another council has dumped celebrations marking the arrival of British settlers in recognition of what that day meant to Aboriginal Australians.

The Opportunities Party leader Gareth Morgan has moved to back up his comment that by making Jacinda Ardern its leader, the Labour Party is putting "lipstick on a pig".