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Families, students, engineers and doctors from the Middle East who made the United States their home face potentially uprooting their lives.

Some hospitals already carry out screenings on newborns, but others don't. Researchers are now looking at the feasibility of introducing the practice across the country.

Many families are struggling to pay for back-to-school costs that can run to thousands of dollars, a Palmerston North charity says. Audio

One legal case changed how Charlotte Doyle looks at the world.

Is there institutionalised racism within New Zealand's public and private sectors? Does a bamboo ceiling exist? If it does, a group of Asian leaders are working to tear it down.

Politicians need to explain how superannuation will continue to be funded when costs are expected to triple in 20 years to $90 million a day, the retirement commissioner says. Audio

Companies should be more transparent when it comes to cultural diversity at the highest level, a prominent employment lawyer says.

Almost 112,000 people applied for emergency grants for food in the last quarter of 2016, up almost 14,000 on 2015.

The lack of female directors in some of New Zealand's largest companies is 'incredibly disappointing', the Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner says. Audio

The country's two richest people, billionaires Graeme Hart and Richard Chandler, have as much wealth as the poorest 30 percent of New Zealanders.

US civil rights activists have vowed to defend hard-fought gains in voting rights and criminal justice as they kick off a week of protests ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration.