100 low-income families were asked what they needed to get out of poverty. Here are their answers.

A young mother and her newborn baby lived in a car for two days after finding themselves homeless when they were discharged from hospital.

A New Zealander who has come home after heading the Salvation Army in Pakistan says prohibition never works, but more restrictions can reduce the harm from drugs and alcohol.

Pacific broadcaster Fa'amatuainu Tino Pereira was the sole non-bureaucrat on a panel that evaluated bids in a controversial tender that axed most of the Problem Gambling Foundation's funding.

Two of the six panel members who made the shock decision to stop funding the Problem Gambling Foundation had conflicts of interest, a review has found.

Crime is at a 34-year low, incomes and employment are rising and teenage pregnancy has plunged, a new report on the state of our nation shows.

Simon Collins takes a look at the 'state of our nation' report, a stock-take of New Zealand's social trends.

Charities are bracing themselves for an influx of more than 40,000 struggling Kiwi families who can't afford to serve Christmas dinner or put presents under the tree this year.

Dionne Christian checks out activities on offer during Auckland's Heritage Festival.

The Salvation Army has bought the Destiny Church complex in the Auckland suburb of Mt Wellington and has its 12-storey building in Queen St up for sale.

Auckland's critical housing shortage worsened again last year - but the gap between population growth and house-building may be closing at last.

Rubbish being dumped outside Salvation Army stores is costing the organisation hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Two tenants who moved into their Auckland state house two years after the start of World War II are still living there - more than 70 years later.

New Zealand's longest-serving prisoner has been denied parole and will not be considered for early release again until 2015.