More than 120,000 students will be asked to stay at home for a day this week after the teachers' union rejected what the Ministry of Education says is an 'excellent' pay offer.

As teachers reject the Govt's latest pay offer, the Education Minister says they simply don't have the kind of money being asked for.

A new national service looks ready to start next year to make sure every 16 or 17-year-old ends up in work or training after leaving school.

Secondary school sex education lessons have certainly undergone a change over the years.

Fraser High School principal Virginia Crawford angers with truant speech. / Youtube

Columnist Kerre Woodham finds herself in two minds about the teachers' strike.

Stalled negotiations between teachers and the Ministry of Education may even see students told to stay at home.

Striking teachers around the country took their protests to the street today.

More than 2000 secondary teachers have marched down Auckland's Queen St to rally for better pay today.

A NZ man who lost a ring 40 years ago in a US lake has had news that his treasured possession has been found.

The Government has announced details of legislation to be pushed through Parliament to help speed up the recovery process in quake-devastated Canterbury.

Several Christchurch hotels have slashed room rates in the wake of Christchurch's "horrendous" magnitude 7.1 quake, with one hotel chief saying everybody needed to "chip in".

Most Canterbury schools today reopened after the September 4 magnitude 7.1 earthquake, but aftershocks continue.

A drunk Auckland high school pupil was taken to hospital after falling over and knocking his head in a physical education class.