COMMENT: On average around 200 Americans are killed and wounded in mass shootings every month

Richard Edwards and Janet Hoek suggest the next targets in the campaign against smoking should be dairies and other outlets selling tobacco products.

Housing New Zealand is being accused of causing homelessness by evicting people who can't get rehoused anywhere else.

Warriors star James Gavet has been through a lot in his 27 years, on and off the football field. Now he's using his life experiences to help those in need.

Homeless people sleeping rough pose a visible challenge to all of us. The poor who camp in public places and beg in streets make themselves very visible.

Hallee Sorenson from Maine in the US invited all her friends and classmates for some bowling to celebrate her birthday in July last year but no one came.

New Auckland City Missioner Chris Farrelly feels he is walking into the middle of a homeless crisis that no NZer would ever have expected.

Tomorrow marks the first anniversary of the death of assisted dying campaigner Lecretia Seales. Her husband writes about her legacy and life without her.

On June 3, 1941 the first 10 female officers began training to enter the New Zealand Police.

Conservative lobby group blames "family malformation" - including parental breakups - as major culprit.

COMMENT: There's been far too much hysterical hanky wringing over the so-called problems of homelessness and poverty lately.

A drunken brawl that left Melissa Ansin's partner George Siaosi trapped in his own body highlights the battle to create a safe city at night.

Lizzie Marvelly is the musician who has finally found her voice. She talks to Kim Knight about being young, female and opinionated.

A man who spent 18 years in state care says he is "terrified" by the Budget changes to Child, Youth and Family.

Child poverty advocates say the Budget provides no relief for families struggling to cope with high rents and low incomes.

In 1993, New Zealand ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

A young mother whose 2-year-old daughter died a violent death four years ago is now organising a group of residents to feed local families living in cars.

Where does time go? And why are some people so hopeless at keeping it? Kim Knight despairs.

COMMENT: It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why the Government isn't making election promises to those in need.

COMMENT: We have launched the very first Bullying Free NZ week and a much awaited resource for our schools and, more importantly, our children.

Nia Glassie and Moko Rangitoheriri were both beaten to death at the age of 3.

COMMENT: The problem of families with children forced to live in third-world conditions is eminently resolvable, writes Bryan Gould.

COMMENT: Maoris are more in need of learning parenting skills than are non-Maoris and that applies to a lot of Pacific Island parents too.

COMMENT: Men are too scared to work with kids. It's too dicey an area for them. As a result children miss out on good, solid male role models.

COMMENT: Let's take action on homelessness which has a better chance of fixing the problem and which returns our pavements to pedestrians.

Southland couple who have lost four babies - each about 20 weeks after conception - are appealing to find a woman willing to be a surrogate mother.

Julia Roberts ascended the famed red-carpet steps to the Cannes Film Festival barefoot.

We are now being routinely alerted to words that might elicit traumatic memories. but, asks, Kim Knight, is this just a cotton-wool response to real life?

A social worker working with Auckland's homeless population says the vacant former Civic Administration Building should be used to house the homeless.