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<i>Dev Nadkarni:</i> Attacks fuelled by bad policy rather than racism

Helpline struggles to survive

Neighbours are knocking again

Housing NZ plans P-lab crackdown

Housing New Zealand is putting tenants who manufacture the drug P in state houses on notice.

Auckland mayor not surprised by P-lab on own street

A clandestine meth lab found on one of the country's poshest streets shows the drug can make its way into all communities, street resident and Auckland City Mayor John Banks says.

Drug bust on exclusive Auckland street

Two men and one woman will face drug-related charges after the discovery of a P-lab on one of Auckland's most elite streets.

Should parents who act as carers for their severely disabled adult children receive financial support from the Government?

Back again - the recycled addicts

Fugitive hands himself in to police

<i>Green Business: </i> Patch from Scratch vege gardens

<i>Green Business: </i>Raglan resort grows on eco-tourism surge

Parents plead for son who plotted to have them killed

An Asperger’s sufferer in England who plotted to kill his parents was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order yesterday, despite a letter from his mother and father asking the judge for leniency for their son.

Sex, money and bigotry: Meet Ireland's political 'Robinson' duo

Details that have been emerging on Northern Ireland's 'first couple of politics' have the country aghast.

UK's one-time youngest lottery winner found dead

Britain's one-time youngest ever lottery winner has been found in the isolated bungalow where he lived alone.

Jobs survey shows US unemployment figures beginning to ease

Shock over deadly internet choking craze

Children are posting videos on the internet showing them choking other youngsters to the point of collapse.