Parents have to watch another generation take on student debts.

EDITORIAL: Labour needs to beat National in September. Can it do so by campaigning with the Greens?

Auckland's Mt Albert electorate is having one of the strangest election contests New Zealand has seen.

EDITORIAL: Prostitution was made legal in NZ 14 years ago, with hopes it would remove the stigma, this has not been the case.

If Waitangi Day was observed as it should be - and no doubt one day will be - it will be a two-day event.

Aucklanders have been waiting a long time for the day they will no longer see health warnings appear on some of their beaches after heavy rain.

Maybe it is time to put more of that appearance money into concrete and steel and a retractable roof.

The glorious thing about a New Zealand summer is that just as the official holiday fortnight ends, the best has yet to come.

Happy New Year. Those three words never fail to spread good cheer no matter what the state of the world.

Allied Concrete this week put that aside in favour of a moral position. We should take note, and applaud.

It has been more than 20 years since the first major effort in New Zealand to promote legalised euthanasia.

It is worth considering some of the ways in which this alarming President-elect is not wrong.

Soldier Field, Chicago, where the All Blacks are playing this morning, is a place where much has happened besides rugby.

Nostalgia is one of the reasons updated versions of so many old movies are returning to our screens these days.

Alfred Nobel intended that the prizes in his name be awarded for achievements that "have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind".

Congratulations to all the new mayors, councillors and members of local and community boards elected in cities and districts around the country yesterday.

The news that teachers fear legal action for stopping school fights underlines what a hard job school teaching must be.

Some of our rugby fans are a strange breed. This week, following another decisive victory by the All Blacks, some were calling the game boring.

Fatherhoood has not always been as worthy of celebration as it is today.

Much as modern audiences loved Downton Abbey, few would have felt any connection with the culture of service in the grand houses of Edwardian England.

Self-published books can be well produced. It is probably worth paying to have them professionally written, edited, designed and printed.

Doctors have the highest place in public trust. Previous generations placed so much trust in their doctor that explanations were not expected.

Chiefs need to find a way to penalise those who have let down their good name. The main instigators will be known to the All Black selectors.

But sooner or later prices will burst. Confidence can drop suddenly and unpredictably when nervous or smart money bails. Be ready.

Gloriavale, the closed Christian community on the South Island's West Coast holds a strange fascination for many of us.

Did you watch your child playing sport yesterday? Was it what you expect on a winter Saturday morning in New Zealand?

Labour's loudly heralded housing policy announcement today will be received with more interest than an opposition party normally receives.

When young people are sent to prison for a crime as serious as murder, few of us give much thought to what they will do with all that time inside.

Retirement used to be synonymous with receiving National Superannuation. Not any more.

Few newspaper revelations have had a greater impact in rugby-mad New Zealand than those of Herald sportswriter Dylan Cleaver's in March.