Prime Minister John Key will use his Waitangi Day address this morning to tackle extremists on both sides of the race relations divide.

Chris Barton was at the inquest into a harrowing story of youth suicide.

After a warm welcome at Te Tii Marae, PM John Key told gathered Maori 2010 could see a 'better solution' to the foreshore and seabed issue.

Plans to hold a topless tobogganing competition next month in the east German ski resort of Oberwiesenthal have caused a furore.

Today's unemployment figure has surprised many, with most - including the Reserve Bank, expecting a figure well under 7 per cent.

Irwin Industrial Tools had been Wellsford's icon and biggest employer, but with the factory abandoned, the town is moving on.

Forget bars and clubs. Increasingly, the new meeting ground for singles - and those looking to stray - is the workplace.

A British mum will be questioned after police found the bodies of her two children in her car.

Signs of family breakdown emerge in the wake of Iceland's financial crash.

Both are loving mothers, who after years of devoted care to their disabled children felt they had no choice but to take the law into their own hands but while one was allowed to walk free from court yesterday the other will go to jail.

Is feminism to blame for the number of women who find themselves single? The Independent's Liz Hoggard delves into the issue.

When Dean Browne's former girlfriend heard he had been murdered and dumped in a New Plymouth garage, she knew his lifestyle had finally caught up with him.

In the United Kingdom, calls are growing by opposition politicians and the public that the full report of the review of the case of two brothers who savagely attacked a pair of boys in Edlington, South Yorkshire, should be made public.