On the eve of its annual conference, not all is well in the ranks of the Green Party.

New York - New York City anti-smoking signs depicting a decaying tooth, diseased lungs and a damaged brain violate cigarette vendors' free speech and should be removed, tobacco companies and retailers said in a lawsuit.

Boy racers could be banned from many Papakura streets if a proposed bylaw goes ahead.

A resident's complaint about "strange men knocking at his door" has led to a council using a technical clause to close a brothel.

Sex workers across Australia are lobbying state governments for increased protection under anti-discrimination laws.

An Irish couple who have discovered they share the same father have vowed to stay together and continue to have children.

A man who abandoned his baby outside a Wellington strip club changed his plea when he appeared in court yesterday.

Grant Christie asks whether alcohol reform is a matter of conscience or science.

Plans have been scrapped for a King's College after-ball where parents were going to buy their children alcohol.

Te Hamua Nikora is the Maori men's posterboy for what not to do about your health - but he's still a ridiculously handsome one, he reckons.

A study of 29 children who lived in Auckland's controversial Centrepoint Community has found continuing effects on their adult lives.

Breastfeeding advocates are outraged at a magazine's "commandment".

A pair of primary school boys yesterday became two of the youngest sex offenders in Britain after being found guilty of the attempted rape of an eight-year-old girl.

When I heard that Claire Wadey, the co-author of a new local book called Relax and Grow Rich was a mum with two small children, I was intrigued.

Tapu Misa writes that the growing divide between rich and poor makes solidarity and a sense of community more difficult.

Oscar-nominated actress Keisha Castle-Hughes has been praised for her decision to kick her drinking habit.