A new national service looks ready to start next year to make sure every 16 or 17-year-old ends up in work or training after leaving school.

A complaint by Paula Bennett over a news item which claimed she offered money to a solo mum is to go ahead.

Never mind sex on TV.

Twenty-three people have reportedly been evicted from quake-damaged council flats without warning.

Finance Minister Bill English has asked banks and the Inland Revenue Department to be flexible with Christchurch earthquake victims.

Peter Dunne's bill is unfair, unaffordable and unlikely to happen, writes Brian Fallow.

John Armstrong writes that the working group's prescription for change may be blinkered by ideology such as time limits.

Controversial new data suggests that more than half of all sole parents on the domestic purposes benefit first became beneficiaries as teens.

A growing number of unemployed couples are living apart so one can claim the domestic purposes benefit to get more money, say beneficiary advocates.

New Zealand's worst youth offenders will get million-dollar beds in the country's newest youth prison.