A common falsehood is that poverty is getting worse.

Organisers behind Lifewise's Big Sleepout say it does help hundreds of homeless Kiwis.

COMMENT: This election will be about how we define national success.

Maori, Pacific Island babies far more likely to die unexpectedly in their sleep.

Hone Mihaka opens up about suicide in light of NZ's low ranking for child wellbeing.

AIi Kitinas, who is 16 years old, is so successful her own mum works for her.

After her father died she took a job working seven days a week, with one day off a month.

Parents forced to keep kids out of school because they do not have enough food for them.

Auckland artist Zoë James is protesting the cost of sanitary products.

Glen Innes mum of six talks about the struggle of raising six kids on $250 a week.

Children from disadvantaged households are more likely to hit puberty early.

A European advocacy group has ranked NZ 158th out of 165 nations on children's rights.

Activists attempted to break through police lines to where Bill English is speaking.

Single parent Suzanne Cannell explains how her business was motivated through hardship.

The Government has refused to support a new free advocacy service for the poor.

More than 620,000 Kiwis live below the poverty line and most are adults.

Warning for parents amid cases of children being left alone: 'We're not a daycare.'

The Salvation Army is slamming the county’s poverty levels saying that all of the onus shouldn’t just fall onto them and that everyone has a part to play.

Teachers are being kicked, punched and stabbed by children of P-addicted mothers.

A joint effort by Herald and World Vision fundraising campaign sees them make $200,000.

COMMENT: Don't panic, housing bubble hasn't popped. But it has released a bit of hot air.

About one in six Kiwis live with a respiratory illness and the number is increasing.

Madison Strempek, 12, talks about what it's like having a parent in prison.

NZ Herald Focus discusses the struggles of the people in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

COMMENT: Alex Waimora is from the Solomon Islands but has been living in NZ for four years.

Countdown is discounting sanitary items for two weeks to encourage donations to women in need

First impressions are of an idyllic paradise. But it soon becomes obvious that this village is living barely one step ahead of hand to mouth

Leaving home is the only option for many as the atoll faces the same fate as five islands that have already disappeared.

A teen's recovery from a second bout of TB is rare bright spot in battle to rein in the disease.

Some 60 per cent of Papua New Guinea's population live in areas where malaria is endemic.