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In Focus - Prime Minister John Key is not ruling out more government action to tackle the housing shortage in Auckland. Video

The Labour Party is calling for a state of emergency to be declared on homelessness.

Opinion - We Kiwis may pat ourselves on the back for defying France's burkini ban by putting it on the catwalk - but do we deserve it, asks Lamia Imam.

Conservation groups are replanting native vegetation around Wellington's Miramar Peninsula to provide safe homes for little blue penguins and food for other native birds.

Reserve Bank Governor Graeme Wheeler has reaffirmed plans to further lower the official cash rate, defending the bank's strategy of continued cuts.

A Real Housewives fan weighs in on the premiere of the Auckland series.

Some homeless Aucklanders are seeking driveways to rent so they can sleep in their cars.

A social housing advocacy group intends to seek a judicial review of the government's plan to sell more than 1000 state houses in Tauranga.

An independent inquiry will be held into how Havelock North's water supply became contaminated with campylobacter. Audio

A real estate company suggested housing homeless people in tents and warehouses in an urgent report for the government. Audio

A new poll suggests more than 60 percent of New Zealanders want a cannabis law change. Video, Audio

The country's biggest non-government social housing provider is to buy more than 1000 state houses in Tauranga.

Power Play - Immigration numbers are at record levels, but new arrivals put stresses on the nation, and that can cause dangerous resentments, writes Jane Patterson.

Record numbers of work approvals and a sharp increase in new residents have put renewed pressure on the government to rein in immigration

With rates, rents and bills showing no signs of abating, unions say staff are increasingly considering strike action to get a meaningful share.

More than 250 submissions have been made to a cross-party inquiry into homelessness, which will have its first public hearing later this month.

Opinion - Some say we're in a new era of post-truth politics. Others say that's overblown. Some say "he said, she said" reporting is to blame. Toby Morris and Toby Manhire weigh in.

Hillary Clinton has won more high-profile backing, as Marge and Homer Simpson agree to vote for the Democratic presidential nominee. Video