The house on the corner site in Taniwha St, Glen Innes, is a case study of everything Housing NZ says is wrong with its state housing stock.

Most teen girls who are sexually abused blame themselves because they have ignored their parents' warnings, researchers have found.

Cross-party inquiry comes up with strong message for change from emphasis on caring for people late in life.

Strong warning labels should be placed on all beer, wine and spirits as part of a plan to stop pregnant mothers from drinking, MPs say.

Making sure pregnant mums see a doctor within 10 weeks of conception should be a national priority, say MPs working to improve children's health.

It's been one of the mildest flu seasons in 20 years, but the young, elderly and Pacific Island and Maori people are still at serious risk from the flu.

The Dutch equivalent of Santa Claus arrived in the Netherlands on Saturday to the delight of thousands of children.

A CYF caregiver has been humiliated after the organisation wrongly suggested she was being investigated for abuse of a child in her care.

Our minimum wage is so low about 40 per cent of children living in poverty are not living in beneficiary families, but have low-wage-earning parents, writes Emily Keddell.

There's something rather heart-warming about the growing popularity of the "living wage" movement, writes Brian Rudman. Despite three decades of market economic indoctrination, NZ's underlying sense of fairness and decency remains intact.

Inequality in New Zealand is rising. This is a fact. Damien Grant looks into it.

New Zealand has been rated the fifth most prosperous nation to live in, according to an international report.

Men are closing life expectancy gap on women, and the concept of 'old' is due a rethink, says Peter Curson.

The Labour Party conference in Christchurch this weekend looks set to approve a remit that will require its list to "fairly represent" gays and lesbians among candidates.

Children's Commissioner Dr Russell Wills has decided to publish his own annual stocktake of child poverty after the Govt spurned his call to publish official measures and targets.

Researchers hunting for the next blockbuster heart drug say levels of enzyme activity checked in their study can help to predict a person's risk of coronary heart disease.

Almost 13,000 parents with dependent children have had their benefits cut for failing work tests in the first 2 years after sole parents first had to look for work.

Jump in arrivals will put further pressure on Auckland and Christchurch housing stocks, says economist.

Chamber of Commerce is offering youngsters a road to a job through pilot pre-employment course.

Editorial: A review of burial laws by the Law Commission has led to drastic and largely unnecessary recommendations.

Auctioning off domestic chores and starting an online donation site has helped two Auckland teens "pay it forward" to a charity that is taking them on the trip of a lifetime.

A trust that sold off a 100-year lease of Auckland's historic Ranfurly veterans' home has called in an outside expert to review the quality of care the veterans are now receiving.

A New Zealand church has been let off the hook for forbidding a gay man from becoming a priest.

Cartoonists moaned when Rowling became Prime Minister in 1974, being unable to caricature him.

Excited Barnardos workers have volunteered to fly in from around the country to staff collection stalls at Beyonce's Auckland concerts this week.

Ex-soldiers could soon get support for psychological issues as well as physical injuries under wide-ranging changes to war pensions.

New Zealand rightly prides itself on being a leader in women's rights. It was ranked sixth out of 135 countries in the Global Gender Gap report for 2011.