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Funeral for schoolboy today
A Wairarapa school will be closed for its first day of term today so its pupils can attend the funeral of a 10-year-old schoolmate killed in a quad bike crash.
A Wairarapa school will be closed for its first day of term today so its pupils can attend the funeral of a 10-year-old schoolmate killed in a quad bike crash.
A Green MP says his bill to reform adoption law is much broader than gay adoption and will provide a much needed overhaul, including open adoptions.
A Wairarapa couple have been sent to prison for more than a year and a half after being found guilty of ill-treating and neglecting their adopted daughter.
What is it about New Year's Eve that prompts us to do (or at least toy with the idea of doing) something good or perhaps more meaningful with our lives?
More than 3300 dogs impounded in Auckland were destroyed in 2010-11.
In rural Nepal, where the going rate for a healthy orphan is US$6000 ($7449), about 600 children are missing.
A 28-year-old man who was given up for adoption allegedly subjected his birth mother to more than 12 months of abuse.
A US man who discovered that his biological father is murderer Charles Manson said it was like "finding out Adolf Hitler is your father".