A new Govt package will give subsidies to employers who agree to train a young person and give them a permanent job.

Women's refuges say some women fleeing from violence may no longer be able to get...

The Malaysian authorities are at the centre of an increasingly heated row after it emerged that 66 Muslim boys identified by teachers as "effeminate" had been dispatched to a special camp to discourage them from becoming gay.

The recent flurry of gosh-how-shocking stories about female consumption of pornography is emblematic.

A shake-up of the Family Court could end counselling and mediation services...

What if your daughter squanders her considerable intelligence on meaningless jobs and other fripperies, waiting for her prince to come?

Think of preventive health care as the condom that most governments don't want to wear.

When Confederate forces fired the first shots at Fort Sumter on April 12, 150 years ago, triggering the American Civil War, almost four million African Americans were slaves.

An expert says many more babies would survive if the country quit smoking and reduced its obesity.

One Labour MP said Damien O'Connors "gaggle of gays" comment offended him, but accepted an apology.

The 17-yr-old son of a former Cabinet minister says he struggled as a closet homosexual boarder at King's College.

Children are living in tiny, damp and sometimes squalid boarding houses, while Housing NZ staff are discouraging people who are seeking help from formally registering their need, saying they have no business interfering.

Auckland Grammar old boy John Chisholm wants his sons to go to a good single-sex school like he did - but they don't live in the right zone.