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.

Meadowlands, a shopping centre in one of the most Chinese parts of Auckland, tells a story of how NZ is...

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.

We have all had the experience of meeting someone and - for reasons that are often completely unknown - an instant dislike develops.

A P-smoking mother has been convicted of giving her young daughters methamphetamine through second-hand smoke inhalation, in what experts are calling a legal first.

Writing to schools demanding action on bullying is a "wet" response to the problem, Labour's David Shearer says.