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.

Clarke Gayford and Mike Scott visit isolated communities in Papua New Guinea as part of a World Vision fundraiser and find scenes straight out of a horror movie.

Just one thing going wrong had a devastating effect on an entire village in Papua New Guinea.

The people of Rarata village in the Solomon Islands were walking up to 7km every day to quench their thirst.

The Herald's latest appeal with World Vision will help our Pacific neighbours.

Candidate and MP to help raise funds and awareness for Tauranga Women's Refuge

COMMENT: Sometimes, the simplest of statements can touch hearts and change lives, writes Cathy Casey.

The last-surviving member of the trio of women who created the Tino Rangatiratanga flag speaks out about that important time in New Zealand's history. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Taika Waititi says he is "really happy and proud" to be chosen as New Zealander of the Year.

Treatment of autistic man Ashley Peacock raised in Amnesty International report on human rights concerns.

Students at Papakura High School are striving to change the community's perception of their school, one of the country's most disadvantaged.

Learn more about The Rising Foundation, a charity helping students from schools like those in Under The Bridge, the Herald's documentary project.

Papakura High School has a falling roll, and as far as results go, it's among the worst schools in the country. But there is hope.

In this video, school staff including principal John Rohs discuss the impact of a variety of social issues on the students.

A team of journalists spent a year inside one of the country's most underprivileged schools filming the Herald's first long-form documentary.

NZ is heading "off the track" on housing, child poverty and imprisonment despite dramatic gains on some other social indicators, a new report says.

Under The Bridge marks the New Zealand Herald's first foray into long-form documentary making.

Kiwi parents are paying over $300 more for a school uniform than parents in the UK - prompting calls to overhaul our uniform rules.

Ruthless, reckless and surging rage: a mother details the struggle of looking after the severely autistic daughter she later killed.

Child poverty is a multi-headed beast, writes Rachel Smalley. She tells of a visit to the emergency department and an agitated mother waiting for help.

These are the high points from Labour and Greens' State of the Nation speeches this afternoon.

COMMENT: The epic scale of political conflict in the US risks making New Zealand's problems seem trivial, Liam Dann writes.