Families in motels brace for border reopening
Those in emergency housing want to know where they'll fit when tourists return.
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'If we carried on, we wouldn't last': Free food store to close
Hundreds of people who got free food from Rotorua Whakaora will have to go elsewhere.
Charity founders could end up on the streets as living costs rise
It comes as the annual inflation hit a 30-year high in December.
Struggling families facing 'threefold poverty': social workers
The Salvation Army says planned benefit boosts must be brought forward.
Charity, secondhand shops inundated with dumped rubbish during lockdown
Secondhand stores across the country are getting inundated with rubbish.
'Escalation of poverty' in pandemic linked to jobs, living costs
'If we give up, say it's too hard, we are consigning a generation to the scrap heap.'
Wild weather: Some flood workers do not know what kind of house they will return to
First responders who lost their homes in the Westport flood are still helping others.
Calls for donations this winter - fresh produce specially welcome at Wellington Foodbank
The costs of heating a home in winter can drive more families to Foodbank services.
Dinosaur man beats meth, declares war on litter
Travis Takutai and his kids are raising rubbish clean-up awareness in Whangārei.
Number of overcrowded, costly Queenstown rentals reaches pre-Covid-19 levels
The average house price continues to rise in Queenstown.
Police: Rising concern over crime in emergency housing
'Increased public unease about housing special needs persons and families in motels.'
Rapist jailed for 15 years - Crown to appeal for longer sentence
Crown argued preventive detention should be imposed; rapist sentenced to 15 years' jail.
Brunner Mine disaster: 125 years since NZ's worst workplace accident
Coal miner John Pattinson died reading his Bible.
Simplicity commits $20m to Aotearoa Pledge housing fund
The contribution is the largest to date for the Aotearoa Pledge.
Rapist on parole given Salvation Army job - then he attacked again
A remorseless rapist on parole was given a volunteer role at The Salvation Army.
Huge leap in mothers in distress, financial hardship in Auckland lockdown
Charity data points to significant job losses in Auckland's lockdown.
Salvation Army calls for 'brave action' from Govt over inequality
Covid-19 pandemic may only worsen levels of poverty and inequity, says church.
889 per cent rise in five years in demand for social housing
Housing register numbers have rocketed across Hawke's Bay in the past five years.
Christmas hope for Aotearoa: Message from church leaders
Glad tidings of joy needed more than ever in a year of Covid-19.
'Sexually abusing in the name of Jesus. How disgusting'
A victim says pent-up frustration prompted him to stab a convicted paedophile in prison.
Rental property built in the 1940s deemed unsuitable
Transitional accommodation providers in Northland keen to take up man's offer.
Another cannabis referendum? Vote proposed on decriminalisation
Citizen-initiated referendum proposed on decriminalising cannabis.
Referendum results: PM explains why she said yes to cannabis reform
Jacinda Ardern said her vote was a personal vote.
Report burglaries immediately, police urge
Whangārei police looking into recent spate of mostly commercial burglaries.
Tools and a ute nicked in commercial burgs across Whangārei
Whangārei businesswoman questions why commercial premises being picked on by burglars.
Three months ago, rough sleeping was virtually eliminated in NZ. Has it stayed that way?
Rough sleepers have been returning to Auckland streets - but it's not what it seems.
Aid agencies urge Kiwis to help starving children hit by pandemic
It comes as UN report says nearly a billion people could go hungry this year.
Abused by state or church? The Royal Commission wants you
Judge Coral Shaw calls for survivors of abuse by the state or church to come forward.
'My childhood was taken away' - the trail of sex abuse left by top church leaders
The Royal Commission into Abuse in Care prepares to investigate abuse by clergy.
Church leaders alleged to have abused children, kept details secret
Assemblies of God in NZ under focus as inquiry into abuse in care turns to clergy.
'We haven't experienced need this great': Rotorua charity feeding 3000 mouths a week
Many people just needed a top-up in such a difficult time, a charity director said.
$15m gone: $30m Govt welfare fund for foreigners rapidly depleting
An emergency fund for workers stuck in NZ is drying up fast, leaving the future uncertain.
Family lose everything in suspicious house fire
Police are investigating a suspicious fire that destroyed a family home.