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Police figures reveal there is a domestic violence callout every four minutes.

Plans to build a new mega-prison at Waikeria have been dropped, but the government has yet to decide what to do instead. Audio

Employment minister Willie Jackson has blasted critics of the 2018 Budget who say it failed to deliver for Māori.

Opinion - Solutions to the housing crisis will not be immediate, but the government can start helping people by changing rental policy Shamubeel Eaqub writes.

Analysis - Finance Minister Grant Robertson will not say it out loud, but he owes a great deal of gratitude to the previous National administration, RNZ Economic Correspondent Patrick O'Meara writes.

Opinion - Criminal justice was competing with a heavyweight roster of pressing needs in this year's Budget, but clear answers are still needed, writes Tania Sawicki Mead.

The National opposition says the government has broken trust with New Zealand and not met its promises to voters with its first Budget. Audio

Watch - With a panel of four commentators, Morning Report's Guyon Espiner is talking over the effects of Labour's "bread and butter" Budget.

Power Play - This Budget will not set the world on fire but Finance Minister Grant Robertson will be happy enough to have stuck to his self-imposed fiscal rules, Jane Patterson writes.

Today's Budget was an 'epic fail', a 'lolly scramble', and squandered a golden opportunity, opposition MPs say.

A furore has erupted in the US over the Trump administration heading off a water contamination study that has implications for New Zealand.

The number of people asking for help finding a home is skyrocketing, and the coalition government is under renewed pressure to deliver on its promises.

New figures have been released showing the waiting list for state housing has hit an all time high.

Analysis - The Labour party hammered the previous government on housing, accusing them of presiding over a crisis of rising. But can the government keep its promises on housing? Patrick O'meara asks. Audio

Three firearms licensed to Peter Miles, who was found dead - along with six others - in a suspected murder-suicide near Margaret River, have been recovered at the crime scene, police say.

Margaret River is famous worldwide for wine, surf and idyllic holidays. But a dark pall has been cast over the West Australian town, which is now the home to one of Australia's worst mass murders.

People in desperate need of housing are suffering because the government-run Māori Housing Network isn't working properly, a Far North housing provider says.

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has erupted out of two new vents prompting authorities to call for an immediate evacuation of residents from a second neighbourhood on the Big Island. Video, Audio

In the Rohingya refugee camps of southern Bangladesh, there has been a desperate effort to make ready for the coming cyclone and monsoon season.

The government's $100 million pledge to tackle homelessness will take the sector out of "crisis mode", a housing provider says.

The media industry is said to be in crisis, with some leading Pacific journalists describing a dire state of affairs when it comes to media freedom in the region. Audio