Top business leaders cook up three-course meal for homeless

Man chose to sleep rough from age 10 and says homelessness is part of a bigger picture.

It's hoped the head count will provide information in the quest to reduce homelessness.

National's leader swears he hasn't been using any hair product of late.

Families forced to cut food budgets because of back-to-school costs.

OPINION: New Zealand's GDP has been growing for nine years now, but what does that mean?

A new eatery will be staffed by former homeless people. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

In New Zealand, 3 babies out of 1000 die in the first month. In Kiribati it's 23.

Four-fifths of schools now ask parents for "donations" ranging from $7 to $1225 a year.

Feeding hungry kids is a "human statement", not a political one, Goff says.

Kiwis suffer with rising rents and stagnated incomes.

EDITORIAL: Housing Minister produces another study of the "crisis".

COMMENT: Bryce Edwards on the shift in Government-Maori relations.

Transient Kiwis make up a population the size of Tauranga - new research has found.

Kate Stewart ponders the Government's policy to reduce child poverty.

"They've had a very eye-opening summer," Auckland mum Kristin Ward says.

Fiscal constraints mean it can only get worse from here, says Bill English.

Bill English said National had a more ambitious target to reduce poverty.

National leader Bill English says the legislation is not needed, but will consider it.

English recognised the importance of targets during the election, writes Audrey Young.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern outlining details of the Child Poverty Reduction Bill during her post-Cabinet press conference, Parliament, Wellington. / Mark Mitchell

Child poverty was a key theme of the campaign - and Ardern's election platform.

National leader Bill English says Labour taking National for granted on TPP.

Labour and its partner parties say they aim to better the lives of Māori

The smoothie's creator said she meant no offence, but others feel the name was racist

COMMENT: Income inequality is increasing within countries but narrowing between them.

Public servants will continue in a "fog of good intentions" says Bill English.

The poorest 1.4 million people (30 per cent), got barely 1 per cent of the wealth.

The new projections wont be ready until the second half of February.

Study targeting Maori and Pacific kids could lead to better treatment for killer disease.