Ted Williams was born with the gift of a golden voice. Then things went very badly wrong. For years, Mr Williams scraped by on spare dollars from passing motorists.

The Salvation Army says it is seeing an increase in the number of people unable to put food on the table, having spent all their money during Christmas.

An NBA basketball team has offered a job and a house to a homeless man with a golden radio voice.

It began when a US news reporter spotted a homeless man by the side of the road with a sign that was a little different.

Young people, particularly girls, drinking excessively and putting themselves at risk are concerning police.

A man's ear had to be re-attached after a drunken fight in Hastings last night.

Nobody wins unless everybody wins. It's a phrase on a post it that's been stuck to my computer monitor for weeks.

Police are urging people to stay off the roads if they're drinking tonight.

The two men arrested for attacking a police officer on the East Coast are facing more serious charges of threatening to kill him after appearing in Gisborne District Court today.

Police have told parents to keep track of their children after finding a girl, 14, having allegedly drug-fuelled sex near a beach overnight.

A Wairoa policeman attacked by two men in Mahia on Boxing Day is keen to get back to his job, Police Minister Judith Collins says.

Ira*, a social worker through the 1990s, left the front lines because she was sick of seeing so many abused children being returned to their wider families.

A 6-year-old girl was found home alone in her Tauranga house yesterday after both of her parents had left for work.

A Wairoa policeman became the fourth officer to be attacked on the job this month after he stopped two men suspected of carrying out a series of burglaries on the East Coast.