Good parenting, writes Dita De Boni, is not just about clothing, feeding and educating your children.

Police on Auckland's North Shore have a feeling their drink drive blitzes are working.

Jane Phare talks to a South African living in New Zealand who is returning to Cape Town armed with lessons learned from Kiwis.

Two prisoners' mothers and a girlfriend are facing criminal charges, after trying to smuggle drugs.

Police are worried by a rise in underage prostitution in downtown Auckland, where girls as young as 12 are selling themselves for sex.

The Independent's Nick Duerden wonders why the UK has such different views on children in restaurants to the rest of Europe.

Short people suffer a greater rate of illness and death from heart disease, research has shown.

Research shows that "nannying" works, with a ban on smoking having a decidedly positive impact on individuals' lives

Sam Morgan has invested $700,000 in a Pacific Island-based microfinance company.

For years, I watched my mother slowly and progressively kill herself through the bottle. I made the decision then not to drink.

The prospect of being able to take a pill to combat fear and anxiety has come a step closer

NZ's key export earners are headed for "a terrible collision" as a result of economic mismanagement, Russel Norman says.

Members of a school 1st XV with a booze "culture" were left to drink unsupervised for three hours in London on the night a teen sleepwalked to his death.

Metiria Turei today said John Key and Paula Bennett had "forgotten where they came from", denying New Zealanders the same opportunities to get ahead that they both benefited from.

Hell Pizza's reference to a dog-eating Tongan and ASB claiming to be a "Kiwi bank" are among the ads that irked Kiwis most last year.