New Zealanders are increasingly struggling with the bare necessities, and while Kerre Woodham agrees that compassion for ...

Bonnie Robinson says the Government’s use of benefit sanctions won’t work. In its annual State of the Nation report for 2024, ...

New Zealand is backsliding on much of its social progress, as food and housing become increasingly difficult to afford, says the Salvation Army. The charity's latest State of the Nation report ...

The Government’s exhortation to hunt harder for fewer jobs and for more people to work more, and for longer hours, comes as fresh evidence was published to show real incomes after living costs and ...

The Government’s exhortation to hunt harder for fewer jobs and for more people to work more, and for longer hours, comes as ...

The level of housing supply would be insufficient as the coalition government also cracked down on emergency housing, a community housing provider boss said.

The devastating Los Angeles fires have been a grim reminder of America’s homeowners ... touch all Americans at some point or another. Now, state lawmakers and regulators, who are often hearing ...

Two Chinese citizens were also among the victims of the crash, state news agency Xinhua reported, citing the Chinese embassy. A Filipino police officer was also on board, Philippine police said.

With a soothing sincerity, the Survey at the very outset confirms that growth is in a grim state and that it may not get any easier. Rather, we need to get stronger. Accordingly, FY26 real GDP ...

Advocates call the figures "grim ... housing funding that has been allocated to each local government area. A $5.3 billion fund — billed as the nation's largest-ever investment by a state ...

She declared funding the agency provided "was for the care and protection of children in state care. Nothing more nothing less ... "we should all be concerned about" the number of children living in ...