An Anglican priest has decided not to press charges against a woman who slashed a controversial billboard outside his church.

Tying the knot is positive for the mental health of both men and women, according to a New Zealand-led international study.

A drink-driver nine months pregnant was among those caught in a transtasman blitz on alcohol and violence at the weekend.

A coroner is calling for a national legal help phone line for prisoners in police custody after a lawyer could not be found for a man who later hanged himself.

As a sexual violence taskforce report languishes in the Government's in-tray, support agencies for survivors are reeling from ACC funding cutbacks.

Police in New Zealand and Australia are cracking down on alcohol related crime this weekend in the first joint operation between the two countries.

ACC board chairman John Judge today rejected an allegation he had acted politically over levy proposals.

The Govt's ACC levy increases are less than were recommended by the ACC board but still about $200 a year for an average income worker with a car.

A study of NZers shows kids who suffer psychological or social adversity are at greater risk of suffering long-lasting health problems.

Therapists and counsellors say tight new rules for claiming ACC subsidies for sexual abuse counselling have become "a rapists' charter"

The Labour caucus backs "the tone and content" of a speech in which Phil Goff accused the Govt of reopening old racial wounds.