One of the hazards of this job it that I feel compelled to read books about finance from time to time.

Initiatives in food, boatbuilding and health technology to stimulate Auckland economy.

One in five children is overweight; one in 12 is obese, and kids in urban areas are walking to school less.

Fashion designer Kate Sylvester will today receive an honorary doctorate from Massey.

New Zealand health experts are leading a push to make the world largely smokefree by 2040.

The death of a dolphin after a collision with a boat in the Hauraki Gulf has prompted a warning for boaties to take care around marine mammals.

Is selling to foreigners the only way out?

Think it's all good down on the farm? Think again. Property values are plunging, and the crisis could yet hit the cities too, reports Karyn Scherer.

The husband of Maori Party MP Rahui Katene says he resigned as the head of the Mental Health Commission in 2008 after using commission money for personal spending.

Judy Kraidy lost her job teaching foreign students because she refused to pass those who didn't learn anything.

A team of Victoria University researchers has won New Zealand's most valuable science prize for developing technology that is earning millions of dollars.

An Auckland university campus rejected about 50 foreign students who could speak barely a word of English.