'Cave' dwellers will officially get top priority for social housing under new rules that kicked in this week.

The wonderful thing about being a supportive wife - my challenge for a year - is that you get to wear a self-bestowed halo for the good work you are doing.

A lone protester made her opposition known as she stood outside a Northland church seminar offering to help people overcome "same-sex attraction issues".

Residents are battling a plan for a $2 million artificial sports field in their Auckland suburban park, saying it will spoil its looks.

Emigration is driven not only by opportunities, but also by inequalities, writes Alan Gamlen. Emigration has been worryingly high for decades.

Auckland employers will be challenged today to give young people a chance by hiring a young unemployed person.

Despite nearly a quarter of Aucklanders being Asian, the wider Kiwi community still has an unwillingness to engage with a group it considers to be "exotic other".

John was first referred to sexual violence services aged 12. His mother was schizophrenic and his father, a gang member with a violent history, was in prison.

Editorial: The news that at least 21,000 beneficiaries have travelled overseas in the past nine months had a predictable response.

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.

Strong personal rights and freedoms have helped to propel NZ into the top rank of the new Social Progress Index.

More than 21,000 beneficiaries have had their benefits cut for going on unapproved overseas trips in the last nine months.

Drug dealers are increasingly providing home deliveries in response to text orders in a system known as "dial-a-tinny".

The National Guards rolled in under the cover of darkness, firing tear gas and rubber bullets as they advanced with bulldozers and armoured vehicles.

The Bangladesh city of Chittagong has been on the radar of Kiwi sports fans as the Black Caps play their T20 World Cup pool games there.

A mother who described herself as a "hermit" until a year ago is the central figure in a grassroots nationwide protest against synthetic cannabis

A gambling industry leader was among the first people knocking on the Salvation Army's door this week after news broke that the army had displaced the country's main help agency for gambling addicts.

Family disputes are problems to be professionally mediated rather than wars that will be won or lost.

The Glenn inquiry into family violence has an ethical obligation to release its findings as soon as possible, a source close to the inquiry says.

What I want to think about is how grateful I am to the refugees who come and settled in NZ and how angry I am at the disregard with which we treat them, writes Dr Avril Bell.

A global survey has found that one in every six Kiwis ran out of money for food in 2011-12 - more than in all except eight other developed nations.

An Auckland high school which excluded a student with Asperger's after a dispute with a teacher is appealing against a judge's ruling to quash the expulsion.

A mentoring programme aimed at helping women victims of domestic violence is the brainchild of fashion designer Annah Stretton.

Editorial: It can be easy to jump to assumptions about statistics, especially if they appear to support a particular agenda.

Ban Bossy is an American initiative creating worldwide interest and lots of flak, writes Robyn Yousef.

Looking back, the once common practice of painting lead on to women's faces to lighten their skin seems bizarre.

Jason Tamaiti Kihi Phillips admits he was one of those guys who was too shy to ask for medical help until it was nearly too late.

Maori are living longer and their infant mortality rate will soon be the same as Pakeha - but they're still over-represented in poverty statistics.

New Zealand is still wasting its "demographic dividend" of young Maori and Pacific people reaching working age.

Gaps between New Zealand's main ethnic groups are closing for our youngest citizens - but remain deeply entrenched on many indicators for older children and adults.