COMMENT:

Footage shows the toddler wandering lost before being helped to return home.

Most of those using Government fund to leave Auckland have settled down.

The waiting list for social housing has risen again, but fallen in Auckland.

Social Development Ministry reveals fewest people on the benefit in 20 years.

Mary Holm column: Advice for a teen with 'extraordinary entrepreneurial skills'.

Thousands of people could be helped into long-term employment via a new initiative.

An independent review at the Ministry for Social Development had been announced.

The flooding in Bay of Plenty has bee classified as "medium-scale adverse event".

Taxpayers spent $1m on lawyers before settling abuse claims for a fraction of this cost.

Event slammed by the Backbone Collective, as "too little too late".

Oriwa Kemp is pregnant again, just months after CYF removed a child from her care at birth.

Overhaul of the child protection laws puts emphasis on placing children in a safe, loving home.

Child Youth and Family is to review how it handled a case where five children were so badly neglected they had to eat rotten food.

How do Prime Minister Bill English's comments about drug tests stack up with official data?

Top marketing graduate Kyal Little is still looking for a job 18 months after graduating - because he hasn't yet found an employer

Police say it's not unusual for them to prosecute beggars who are asking for money but don't need it. The comment comes after a Hastings

A Glen Innes tenant battling against eviction from her former state house has put a surprising argument to the Tenancy Tribunal.

WHAT ARE WE DOING? Tauranga Homelessness Steering Group presented findings and plans to city councillors on how to tackle the wicked

Prominent Kiwis have banded together to demand an independent inquiry into the claims of sexual and physical abuse of children in state care.

An inquiry into the abuse of children and others in state care to ensure the mistakes of the past are not being repeated would surely do no harm.

Hawke's Bay is facing a housing crisis with moteliers saying dozens of people squeezed out of emergency motel accommodation due to

A man who denies indecently assaulting a girl during a school holiday programme can be named today.

COMMENT: Stuart Nash is right. That gangs continue to thrive in this country is - as he says - "totally unacceptable", writes Rachel Smalley.

Police were called after school holiday programme staff noticed a man talking to a child in the playground.

How likely young New Zealanders are to be "on track" at age 21 has been mapped using a powerful government database.

Almost 100 young people will get free restricted licences in Taumarunui, getting them off the street and into employment. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

A 71-year-old man on the waiting list for a state house said he was told to "live in his car and then call back" to speed up the process of getting a home.

Quake-affected businesses in Wellington and Hurunui have been given a boost with the announcement that support subsidies will be extended.

WATCH: Families are facing a bleak Christmas in cramped motel rooms that are costing taxpayers thousands of dollars each week.