The Children's Commissioner has called for a review of paid parental leave in order to help more parents care for children under the age of 1 at home.

New mum Vanessa Mealings would welcome any change that made it easier for her to stay at home in the first year of her children's lives.

Some government programmes will be axed as budget spending is cut to pay for rebuilding Christchurch, Prime Minister John Key says.

Parents would end up footing the bill for many of the recommended changes in a Children's Commissioner report on pre-primary care, the Government says.

A new report from the Children's Commissioner is a timely call to take the care and education of NZ's under two-year-olds seriously, NZCA says.

A teenager was taken to hospital after being repeatedly punched in the head during a schoolyard fight which was videoed and sent to classmates.

The crème de la crème of 6th form academia went head-to-head on our television sets in the 1981 final of It's Academic. Three decades later, Otahuhu College team member Alan Perrott went in search of his teammates and rivals.

Four sets of identical twin boys are keeping caregivers on their toes at a Northland childcare centre.

Bad behaviour at school after death of father turns into a year's suspension.

Professor Morton had a keen interest in coastline protection.

Police today released the names of six more people who died in Christchurch's February 22, magnitude 6.3 earthquake, while Education Minister Anne Tolley has announced 110 schools in the region will have reopened by next week.