Kiwi ultra-distance swimmer Kim Chambers is diving into US-Mexico border relations.

Campaigners say gay men are being tortured with electric shocks and beaten to death.

COMMENT: Freedom of expression a right that comes with responsibilities.

Jailed for three years, a wife kept prisoner in room with no light, bedclothes or carpet.

COMMENT: Media reflects public division over where to draw the line on freedom of speech.

The videographer and her employer were arrested on a charge of failing to help.

Security among the reasons cited for cancellation of Muslim critic's tour.

Confused? Here's a guide to fracas that has followed the release of the Hit & Run book.

A transgender pioneer and author died last week when his car collided with a train.

It's costing taxpayers almost $1m a year to keep Ashley Peacock behind locked doors.

NZ Herald Focus discusses the struggles of the people in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

Kiwis are asked to stand up against the kind of racist attacks seen in President Donald Trump's America.

Posters for a "white rights" group believed to have been started in NZ were posted around Auckland University.

Sexual wellbeing of elderly ignored, finds study.

OPINION: They'd never had a woman on the footplate so I needed to be under 'supervision', says Rachel Stewart.

Millions more dollars have been invested by a Government superannuation fund in an international palm oil company embroiled in labour abuse allegations.

A doctor was shocked when personal medical notes were accessed by her employer.

COMMENT: Sex education is not in all schools but it should be, says a researcher.

A transgender athlete has been selected for this month's Australian International.

New Zealand has sought advice on deradicalisation from the Malaysian Government.

The true horror of Islamic State's mass killings may never fully be known.

Dame Susan Devoy has drawn a connection between Maori children taken from their families and placed in state homes and the numbers of Maori in prison.

For complicated reasons to do with war and politics, the only way in and out of the enclave controlled by Syria's Kurds is on a rusty

HIV-positive figure's condom-free message clashes with international medical advice.

COMMENT: I greatly resent Family First attempting to use experiences of sexual violence in order to advance its anti-trans agenda.

Nicky Hager says he will take Westpac to the Human Rights Tribunal.

There was a break-in at the hospital morgue where Kim Jong Nam's body is being held.

Treatment of autistic man Ashley Peacock raised in Amnesty International report on human rights concerns.

A female cyclist exacted her revenge on a catcaller who pestered her at a junction by chasing after him and ripping off his wing mirror.

A student leader has been awarded $18,000 compensation after a privacy breach.