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A campaign has been launched to try to stop the Auckland Council from demolishing a pensioner housing village to enlarge a neighbouring park.

The organisers of the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games are making cutbacks of up to 30% to avoid going over the $5.5 billion budget.

Donald Trump has said he would send home all Syrian refugees the US accepts, if he becomes president.

Auckland Council and the government must agree on a goal to sharply improve housing affordability over the next fifteen years, according to a new report.

Auckland secondary school teachers say the gap between their pay and the city's house prices will lead to teacher shortages.

Does New Zealand have the systems in place to successfully turn out enough reasonably priced homes? Insight investigates the housing crisis in Auckland. Audio

If Ahmed Mohamed wasn't so instantly likeable, would the world have been so quick to rush to his defence?

ANALYSIS: When a Muslim boy brought a clock to school and was arrested, the powerful defended him. But if he hadn't been charming, would anyone have cared?

Opposition MPs have slammed government claims that the country has moved on from leaky homes, and construction laws could be relaxed.

Plans to build six-storey apartment blocks in Queenstown are needed to stop the resort town becoming exclusively for the rich, says a councillor.

Kiwi music legend Neil Finn, whose song has raised $120,000 for the refugee crisis, has slammed New Zealand's refugee quota. Video, Audio

Being the victim of a crime can be a traumatic experience and it can also be an expensive one. So what’s the true cost of a crime?

Austria's railway company has suspended train services to and from Hungary because the volume of refugees and migrants entering the country is causing overcrowding.

The Refugee Action Coalition says it's wrong for Australia to accept extra refugees while people in a similar situation are in limbo at its offshore camps.

Queenstown tenants say extreme housing pressure in the resort town means many workers are living in slum conditions.

Angela Merkel says the "breathtaking" flow of refugees into Germany will "occupy and change" the country in the coming years.

The Minister of Immigration has announced that New Zealand will take 750 Syrian refugees over the next two and a half years. Audio

An agreement with the Government over developing surplus land in Auckland helps cement the commitment to housing for its people, says the chair of the Tamaki Collective.

A trickle of asylum seekers from Libya has started to arrive in the country, amid calls for New Zealand to increase its annual refugee quota. Audio

OPINION: Millions of people worldwide have been displaced from their homes. Toby Manhire and Toby Morris examine what it means, especially for New Zealand.

The Prime Minister is flatly rejecting an emergency intake of refugees despite the escalating migration crisis in Europe. Audio

The United Nations has said "much more is required" to prevent the deaths of migrants fleeing to Europe after hundreds were reported dead in recent days.