Allowing brothels to operate near playgrounds, schools or churches in central Otago resort towns is "unacceptable", a lobby group says.

A teen who drank himself to death at a party earlier this year regularly passed out after drinking, an inquest into his death was told.

A mother has told a court she knew teenager James Webster was dead as soon as she walked into the room where he had been put to bed.

Progress is being made in the war against drug addiction and its links with crime.

TVNZ has received a record number of complaints about Paul Henry's remarks on Governor-General Sir Anand Satyanand, and many staff within TVNZ were also angered by the comments.

A man was tasered 13 times in a Perth police station as nine officers stood by, says a corruption watchdog.

John Key says he supports TVNZ's two-week suspension of Breakfast host Paul Henry, but has denied putting any pressure on the state broadcaster to take action.

Keisha Castle-Hughes is producing a film about a subject painfully close to her heart - NZ's 'epidemic' of P abuse.

Two Mongrel Mob leaders are being paid by the taxpayers to try to turn the country's gangs away from drugs and crime.

Second-generation Mongrel Mobster Layton Te Nahu is off the drug P and back with his family, thanks to a remarkable New Zealand story that involves the Prime Minister, the Salvation Army and a retired surgeon.

It's female nature to overcome difficulties as a community, be it making the tea or getting the vote.

Slum tours can improve locals' lives, writes Karen Phelps.

A new controversial documentary about models asks less than typical questions about the so-called glamorous fashion industry.

I feel like a priest who has been wrestling with his belief in god...

A man who wrote a book about the death of his cancer-stricken mother has been charged with her attempted murder.