Police have relented and allowed bail for a young man with autism who became "the face of looting" in the days after the February 22 quake.

Consumer prices have jumped further since the most recent official statistics were published in January, the Herald on Sunday finds.

Surrounded by her children in the garage of their Hampshire St home in the Christchurch suburb of Aranui, Mafutaga Manuleleua still feels unloved.

Canterbury DHB chief executive David Meates has invoked memories of Hurricane Katrina to justify evacuating hundreds of elderly out of the Christchurch in the wake of last week's earthquake.

It may be boring for parents - but reading the same book over and over again to children is the best way to develop their vocabulary.

Peter Milne has one question for a government advisory group that wants more beneficiaries to have to look for work: Where are the jobs?

The Government won't consider reductions to main benefit levels including the sickness, invalid's, unemployment and domestic purposes benefits as part of any welfare overhaul recommended by the Welfare Working Group tomorrow.

Previous drug surveys exaggerated, claims professor who selected subjects carefully

One of the girls who allegedly attacked a fellow student at Morrinsville College last week is to be pulled out of school voluntarily by her mother.

A consortium of North Shore doctors has a radical proposal to use health professionals to help sickness and invalid beneficiaries back to work.

John Key has been accused of being disconnected after saying that beneficiaries who resort to food banks do so out of their own "poor choices".

A radio station's controversial 'win a wife' competition is going ahead - with a tongue-in-cheek name change - despite allegations it devalues marriage and violates human dignity.

The mother of a pregnant woman with learning difficulties pleaded with a UK court yesterday for her daughter to be sterilised to stop her having any more children.

A Queen's Counsel will carry out an investigation into the publication of the names of two sexual abuse victims on a Ministry of Justice website.

The Chief High Court Judge, Justice Helen Winkelmann, says the court failed to note suppression rules on a judgement which led to two sexual abuse victims being named on the Ministry of Justice website.

An independent reviewer is to be appointed to look into the accidental publishing of two sexual abuse victims' names on the Ministry of Justice website.

A radio promotion offering the chance to win a 'hot' wife from Ukraine has offended New Zealand immigrants from the eastern European country.