The pit bull puppy found in a Tauranga shopping area with his ears chopped off will head to a loving new home today.

A 9-year-old girl found by police hiding in a wardrobe had suffered so much abuse that almost every part of her body was covered in injuries, including part of her scalp torn off her head as she was dragged down the hallway.

NZ women still struggle to gain leadership roles and suffer from high levels of domestic violence, a report says.

An alcohol-fuelled Auckland road crash early this morning has left a teenage girl dead and three in shock.

'I love you I'll see you in heaven,' a 15-year-old girl wrote in a text message to her married, 27-year-old lover.

The Netherlands' free-wheeling dope days may soon be over if the country's new centre-right coalition government has its way.

Forget the cliché of the uncool four-eyed wimp. As Alice-Azania Jarvis explains, 2010 may go down in the history books as the Year of the Nerd.

Christmas is the busiest time for counselling service Lifeline Auckland, which sees a sharp increase in the number of calls it receives.

The majority of miners remaining at Pike River Coal mine look set to lose their jobs, as officials today told workers they were going to proceed with redundancies three weeks after a series of explosions killed 29 workers inside the mine.

British women in their twenties have smashed the glass ceiling and are now being paid more than their male counterparts.