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In today's sports news - Disgraced Highlanders back in the clan, Call for leadership change at rugby players union, North Korea withdraws from Olympics, West Ham in line for club-record league finish.

A Wellington councillor says she wants a landmark Wellington church closing over safety concerns to be strengthened and potentially used for housing.

The city hosted an Accessible Housing Forum today and several politicians heard harrowing stories from those living with disabilities.

Opinion: The government must take state housing seriously as a tool for helping solve the housing crisis - especially for low-to-average income earners who were ignored in its housing package…

The French Polynesian president has discussed France's Covid-19 policies with French leaders in Paris.

A $7.5 million project to build 25 new pensioner flats in Masterton has found favour with residents at the council-owned Panama Village.

Forget the pōwhiri: Officials will be able to enter marae without a warrant if a new water safety Bill is passed, even though no marae water supply has ever caused an outbreak of illness..

A  squadron of investors and economists blitzed the airwaves following the government's big housing announcement, often drowning out other voices.

Opinion - Renters have been thrown under a bus by the Labour government this week as the nation heads towards more homelessness and inequality, writes Bryce Edwards.

More than a thousand people have turned out for a rally in central Auckland calling for discrimination against Asians to stop. Audio

Analysis - The government sets a date for setting a date on the trans-Tasman travel bubble and attacks the housing crisis, this time with serious money and an assault on property speculators.

Investors who bought a house today will have scraped in on avoiding the government's extension to the bright-line test.

Ōpōtiki District Council will be quick to capitalise on the government's housing infrastructure fund to open up land for much-needed homes.

Opinion - 'The Housing Crisis' saga defies all genre norms - somehow managing to be farce, tragedy and a drama about real people's lives all at the same time, Anna Rawhiti-Connell writes.

Australians hit by devastating floodwaters began returning to their homes today, though fresh evacuation orders were issued in some areas where water levels were still rising.

In the past year, the average New Zealander effectively lost $54.59 for every hour they turned up to work if they did not own a home, Brendon Blue writes.

Student residential advisors to university halls of residence have told a parliamentary committee they need more support but are not the solution to all accommodation problems.

Analysis - The government's new policies are a good tactical move, but the politics may not land well, writes Shamubeel Eaqub.

Jacinda Ardern is refusing to say if she would like to see house prices fall on the back of changes designed to make homes more affordable. Audio