Auckland's critical housing shortage worsened again last year - but the gap between population growth and house-building may be closing at last.

Rubbish being dumped outside Salvation Army stores is costing the organisation hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Two tenants who moved into their Auckland state house two years after the start of World War II are still living there - more than 70 years later.

New Zealand's longest-serving prisoner has been denied parole and will not be considered for early release again until 2015.

A spike in pokie machine spending has raised fears quake-hit residents are becoming addicted to...

Stressed-out Cantabrians have been squandering Red Cross cash handouts on poker machines.

A 14-month-old girl has died at the hands of her mother, who was seeking help for substance abuse.