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Forced adoptions, starvation, beatings: Landmark report reveals horrors for unwed mums
This is what happened to girls and women sent to unmarried mothers' homes.
Give youth a chance: Employers urged to give young Northlanders their first job
Northland youth unemployment is the highest in the country, new figures show.
Mamaku Volunteer Fire Brigade raises $1500 for Rotorua Christmas Appeal
“The crew love getting out and seeing the locals and the kids love the siren of course.”
'No let up': Meet the agencies working alongside the foodbank for you
Over 100 referral agencies help make sure thousands in the community get much-needed food.
'Massive confidence boost': Trust donates $10k to Christmas Appeal
"Together we can make a difference, and Rotorua Trust is pleased to be part of it.”
Kiwi volunteers build new Salvation Army base in Tongan village in record time
Up to 15 volunteers from New Zealand travelled to Tonga for the project.
Bad granny: Woman, 85, evicted from social housing for 'bullying' neighbours
She verbally abused one and made repeated false accusations against others.
'Stupid': Thief accidentally films his own vandalism of CCTV camera
The 52-year-old admitted to police it was a 'stupid' move.
Salvation Army to incorporate Māori to help set new strategic guidance
The church is upping its strategic alliance with Māori.
Struggle street: Rents double, swallowing incomes
Support payments based on rent data about six years out of date.
Homeless hotline needed after Remuera car death, MP says
The service would be based on London's Streetlink initiative.
'I wouldn't have been on this planet for much longer': Drink-driver with 40-year history claims sobriety
A repeat drink-driver claims to have ditched the booze and to be enjoying recovery.
Kings and queens of philanthropy: NZ's billionaire benefactors and generous family dynasties
Uber-rich families that gift are plentiful around Auckland.
Dunedin rapist Dwayne Keats given indefinite sentence
Keats was jailed for 15 years, but Court of Appeal says sentence manifestly inadequate.
Service station and liquor store staff terrified by armed and disguised men
Man's childhood thefts of food and groceries escalated to aggravated robberies.
'Too many desperate families': Thousands in need of food as Omicron wreaks havoc
One support service says it has never seen demand as high as during the current outbreak.
Families in motels brace for border reopening
Those in emergency housing want to know where they'll fit when tourists return.
'If we carried on, we wouldn't last': Free food store to close
Hundreds of people who got free food from Rotorua Whakaora will have to go elsewhere.
Charity founders could end up on the streets as living costs rise
It comes as the annual inflation hit a 30-year high in December.
Struggling families facing 'threefold poverty': social workers
The Salvation Army says planned benefit boosts must be brought forward.
Charity, secondhand shops inundated with dumped rubbish during lockdown
Secondhand stores across the country are getting inundated with rubbish.
'Escalation of poverty' in pandemic linked to jobs, living costs
'If we give up, say it's too hard, we are consigning a generation to the scrap heap.'
Wild weather: Some flood workers do not know what kind of house they will return to
First responders who lost their homes in the Westport flood are still helping others.
Calls for donations this winter - fresh produce specially welcome at Wellington Foodbank
The costs of heating a home in winter can drive more families to Foodbank services.
Dinosaur man beats meth, declares war on litter
Travis Takutai and his kids are raising rubbish clean-up awareness in Whangārei.
Number of overcrowded, costly Queenstown rentals reaches pre-Covid-19 levels
The average house price continues to rise in Queenstown.
Police: Rising concern over crime in emergency housing
'Increased public unease about housing special needs persons and families in motels.'