Joshua Peter Brennan should get credit for the moral and physical courage required to break his link with the Mongrel Mob, Judge Raoul Neave said today as he jailed the armed robber for nine-and-a-half years.

Maori and Pacific high school students have finally started closing the gaps with their European counterparts in NZ schools.

Jim Anderton fears that opponents of the All Blacks at the Rugby World Cup could be forced to avoid a hailstorm of beer cans.

NZ has one of the highest school dropout rates, with the sixth-lowest high-school completion rate in the developed world, a report has found.

Remember feminism? The 70s movement led to huge social change but is the women's rights movement still relevant in the era of Lady Gaga?

A 27-year-old Tongan man made a brief appearance in North Shore District Court this morning accused of attacking a toddler.

Police have charged a US citizen with assisting the 2007 suicide of Auckland woman Audrey Wallis.

Police have charged a man with assault as a 2-year-old girl fights for her life in hospital.

Jan Pryor has resigned as Chief Families Commissioner, Social Development Minister Paula Bennett announced this morning.

Work testing sole parents on the DPB is an unjustifiable breach of human rights, Attorney-General Chris Finlayson told Parliament today.

Long-term unemployed, sickness beneficiaries and single mothers on the DPB with children over six are about to come under extra scrutiny under new Govt reforms.