Salvation Army representatives hope to meet with Whanganui District Council staff to discuss a proposed joint venture for pensioner

Marae, women's refuges and other social agencies have won funding to house 3000 homeless families and individuals a year in the latest

The streets are no place to sleep after a long day at work, especially in winter's depths. But for some New Zealanders, a freezing

Labour's new emergency housing promise is a vast improvement on its last effort.

More people seek help for problem drinking in the three months following Dry July, the Salvation Army says. Dry July is a campaign

The Salvation Army's annual stocktake on New Zealand's social health has earned high credibility. It owes this to its recognition of progress as well as problems.

A number of businesses have stepped in to help the Salvation Army after one of its centres was vandalised.

The Sallies are absolutely right to request that donations be pristine and new because there are some people in our community who are truly evil, Kerre writes.

Growing numbers of Kiwis risk becoming homeless in old age because of falling home ownership rates, rising rents and static housing subsidies, the Salvation Army says.

Salvation Army volunteers are bracing themselves for a bumper Christmas - of assistance to families facing a struggle to keep afloat through the season of goodwill.

A long-term contract to inspect all state houses for potential risks to health and safety was axed the year before two Auckland tenants died last winter.

Salvation Army warn that people at the bottom of the market face not only a shortage of property but rents moving out of their reach.

Some regions will "fail" economically and perhaps socially unless we help them to adjust, the Salvation Army says.

A former head of the Rotorua Salvation Army has admitted a charge of unlawfully behaving in an offensive manner.

If the likes of the Salvation Army cannot afford to buy cut-price state houses, it seems improbable that any other social services agency is in a position to do so.

This week, Finance Minister Bill English was dealt a blow by the Salvation Army, which rejected his suggestion it buy Housing New Zealand stock.

A 78-year-old Westport man has been further remanded on bail to appear in the Greymouth District Court in June on charges related to historic sex offending.

The Salvation Army has decided against buying state homes off the Government, a blow the Labour Party says is "hugely embarrassing".

The dress that divided the internet with millions debating its colours has been adopted by the Salvation Army for the focus of its latest anti-domestic violence campaign.

100 low-income families were asked what they needed to get out of poverty. Here are their answers.

A young mother and her newborn baby lived in a car for two days after finding themselves homeless when they were discharged from hospital.

A New Zealander who has come home after heading the Salvation Army in Pakistan says prohibition never works, but more restrictions can reduce the harm from drugs and alcohol.

Pacific broadcaster Fa'amatuainu Tino Pereira was the sole non-bureaucrat on a panel that evaluated bids in a controversial tender that axed most of the Problem Gambling Foundation's funding.

Two of the six panel members who made the shock decision to stop funding the Problem Gambling Foundation had conflicts of interest, a review has found.