Those working in the 'legal highs' industry believe banning certain products will only lead to the creation of new ones. Urgent legislation before Parliament today will allow all 43 current synthetic cannabis products to be withdrawn from sale.

It is a measure of how subdued is the national mood and how modest are our current ambitions that we expect so little of our elected governments.

Kronic and other synthetic cannabis will be pulled from New Zealand shelves within weeks - but...

Many readers will have been taken aback this week by revelations in the Herald series on the number of children turning up at schools hungry each day.

Child welfare advocates have called for "tough conversations" on the contents of a long-awaited paper on reducing NZ's shocking child abuse rate. The 'Green Paper on Vulnerable Children', was launched in Auckland today.

Sharing food across the wider whanau is the only way Papakura's Peawini family keeps food on the table.

The causes of increased poverty, and the growth of school food programmes go back to National's big benefit cuts of 1991.

More than 100 Herald readers have signed up to pay $15 a month to sponsor hungry children in response to this week's campaign on the issue.

Poorer families are cutting out meat and vegetables to keep up repayments to finance companies, budgeters say.

Amy Winehouse reportedly died in her Camden home after wild drinking sessions and an Ecstasy binge.

School principals say the number of pupils turning up for breakfast is increasing daily, despite the collapse of one of the two main breakfast programmes...

A "red flag" identifying at-risk children for schools, doctors and police is expected to be floated by the Government.

Domestic violence, from psychological abuse to beatings, is our biggest problem.

The architect of tough benefit reforms in Britain will face a picket by Sue Bradford's Auckland Action Against Poverty.