Scheme will involve kuia visiting pregnant Maori women to offer support and advice.

Internal Affairs is banning three gambling machine foundations from giving money to four racing clubs after an investigation into grants.

Pilot scheme at Mangere East college shows boys how to be good fathers.

A new program to help reduce ACC costs will make it more difficult for some people to get medical scans.

Taggers say initiatives aimed at preventing graffiti just encourage them to keep vandalising.

New Zealand's unemployment rate has climbed to its highest level since the so-called "winter of discontent" in 2000.

The unemployment rate rose to a nine-year high 6.5 per cent in the September quarter.

Many young Pacific offenders in South Auckland are "chameleons" who attend church after committing a crime

A black woman's appearance on a talent show in China has provoked a storm of abuse on the internet and a rare debate on racism in the media.

The teen driver at the wheel of the van in which two friends were killed was last night at the hospital bedside of her boyfriend who is feared paralysed.

A 4-month-old baby boy in a critical but stable condition in the Starship hospital is known to Child, Youth and Family.

A US newspaper wants a marijuana critic to review Colorado's hundreds of legalised cannabis dispensaries and their products.