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Budget 2017 - Labour supports the Budget's lift to the accommodation supplement but the tax cuts are unfair and poorly targeted, the party's finance spokesperson says. Video

Some minimum-wage earners will only get one extra dollar a week, Labour says - while ACT accuses National of "abandoning its roots". Video, Audio

As everyone's favourite never-ending soap celebrates its 25th anniversary, two patriots take a trip down memory lane.

Opinion - After three decades of dismal leadership on housing, Budget 2017 is an opportunity to start addressing some long accumulated failures, Shamubeel Eaqub writes.

After making controversial comments about community providers, the Associate Social Housing Minister's greatest regret is letting down his Cabinet colleagues, he says. Audio

The housing shortage surged to the top of the news agenda this week with political promises of more new homes in a hurry, and a housing minister lashing out at housing charities and the media.

Something has to change, doesn't it?

But how will the Domestic Violence Victims' Protection Bill work? And can employers afford it?

Most of the thousands of houses the government is promising to build and sell in Auckland over the next decade will cost well over $650,000.

A plan to build 34,000 new houses in the next decade is about as much as Auckland can handle, Social Housing Minister Amy Adams says. Audio

Both major political parties are failing to encourage more house building, particularly in Auckland, says the Property Institute. Video, Audio

Police have apologised to a woman for acting too slowly after she called emergency services twice for help, before being stabbed by her mentally ill son.

Friendly bus drivers, growing vegetables in their garden and a welcoming community have helped a Syrian refugee family settle in to their new life in Dunedin.

Young Aucklanders have given up on ever being able to afford a house, they say, but Prime Minister Bill English insists the government's approach to housing is succeeding. Audio

NZ's economy has received good marks from the International Monetary Fund, although it is still at risk from a hot housing market and global downturn.