The closure of a town's only bank has left elderly residents without vital services and business owners facing long trips by car to do their banking, locals say.
Sending children to school when they're sick has consequences for everyone and keeping them home is the right thing to do, says Labour leader Chris Hipkins.
Homeowners are under-insuring their houses, ratcheting up their excesses and using savings to help cover "shocking" increases to their insurance premiums.
The government admits it has failed to check whether a billion-dollar scheme to tackle homelessness is getting people into homes, including in the South.
Residents of a Dunedin suburb are disappointed at not being consulted about a container yard they say will block their views and clog up an already dangerous section of highway.