The number of young people aged 20 to 24 with no income almost trebled between 1996 and 2006, according to new figures.

71-year-old grandmother Jennie Oakley was the oldest graduate to walk down Queen St this week.

Young children should not watch any TV because it sets them up for obesity and poor academic performance at school, say experts.

Parents, beware: watching television makes toddlers fatter and stupider at primary school, according to new research.

Shakespearean tragedy has become high farce, after a Christian high school sacked a teacher for using a "morally defiling" King Lear text.

A law expert says Waitakere City Council is wrong to think it cannot help a school that wants a nearby brothel removed.

A school chairman calls for Waitakere City to step in after learning Rodney has a bylaw stopping a brothel opening near a school.

The owner of a brothel opposite a school says people should be more worried about children watching violent TV than his business.

A west Auckland intermediate school is outraged it can do nothing about a brothel which has opened across the road.

Sir John Walker lobbies ministers to help his successful youth programmes.