New funding aims to better prevent homelessness, while providing better accommodation.

An Auckland airport worker says staff have little protection from coronavirus.

"My little boy he just... It was really hard." Made with funding from NZ On Air.

New measles cases being confirmed every day as city teeters on an epidemic.

Waikato DHB's interim chief executive Derek Wright talks about his new job. Video/Alan Gibson

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern spent a few moments dishing up strawberries and ice cream to support a fundraiser for Mary Potter Hospice - and promising to look into more funding for palliative care. Credit: Mark Mitchell

A ban on unvaccinated children from daycare centres the wrong move, says Paul Little

Hawke's Bay iwi Ngāti Kahungunu say they warned authorities for decades about the risk of water contamination.

An extra $2.2 billion will be pumped into health over four years to help cope with an ageing population and record immigration.

You'd be surprised just how hard it is to find a family willing to let a Herald writer snoop around their home and ask all sorts of intrusive questions about their substandard living conditions, writes Peter Calder.

Sexually transmitted infections should be reclassified to enable better tracking and treatment as social media influences sexual behaviour and more drug-resistant strains emerge, a health authority....

He Korowai Trust are the heroes of the far North of New Zealand, a region experiencing economic crisis. Based in Kaitaia, their team saves at least one home a week from mortgagee sale. He Korowai client Rachel talks to us about her experience with the Trust, how they saved her home and helped her build a brighter future.

Phil O'Reilly says attacking the issue of child poverty from many directions, by everyone, has a greater chance of succeeding than simply focusing on benefit payments.

The days of Kiwi doctors treating toddlers for free are long-gone, with one big-city clinic charging $44 to see children younger than 5.