Here’s hoping the High Court can robustly defend the sanctity of life, writes John Roughan.

Whatever happens at the High Court at Wellington, Lecretia Seales will forever be linked to the euthanasia argument in New Zealand.

The current news media attention on Relationships Aotearoa and its dire financial situation highlights the state of many community-based organisations, writes Richard Wood.

Schools have been asked to consider offering gender-neutral uniforms as part of new sexuality education guidelines aimed at being more inclusive.

One of New Zealand’s most experienced private investigators offers advice on how to deal with stalkers.

Not only will the benefit boost do little to alleviate poverty, but it is accompanied by cuts to other associated benefits and payments, writes Dita De Boni

The Government recognised in last week's Budget that the gap between market and benefit incomes has become too wide.

A man "fat-shamed" on social media after pictures of him dancing were posted online has got his own back on the trolls by partying the night away with stars in LA.

Statistics NZ's General Social Survey has been conducted every two years since 2008-09.

The Herald on Sunday is working with the Middlemore Foundation on a campaign to get needy kids into warm pyjamas this winter.

Nicky Park has found people in New Zealand very responsive to a forward approach of getting to know neighbours - moreso than back home in Sydney.

The income gap between children and the elderly has widened faster in New Zealand than in other developed countries during the recent recession, a new report shows.

Over the years I've had enough close encounters with neighbours to make me wary of them. Allow me to share some of these experiences, Shelley Bridgeman writes.

In bikie club culture where loyalty and territory are highly valued, disagreements can too easily boil over, writes Jarrod Gilbert.

After some confusion about Whanau Ora, Dita De Boni visited a provider to better understand the initiative.

A mathematical model designed to predict children at risk of abuse will be trialled with data about children reported to Child, Youth and Family.

HIV stigma is a plague that continues to follow the gay community, more than 30 years after the AIDS crisis emerged, writes Lee Suckling.

They run their Upper East Side homes like domestic CEOs, work tirelessly to improve their family's social standing and now want an annual perk from their husbands.

The range of three dolls, which are also diverse in race and appearance, are in direct opposite to the artificial mannequin shape of a Barbie doll.

The threat of social rejection to be the most widespread and potent form of stress for human beings. Deborah Hill Cone writes of trying to overcome this kind of killer shame.

A $30,000 grant will enable a knitting group to bring even more joy and love — and beanies and blankets — to deserving families.

Not all religions and their followers are equal in New Zealand, a Herald investigation into the state of faith has found.

Is it a glorification of an outdated view on romance? Is it akin to a thinly veiled beauty pageant? Does it reduce women to their most basic attributes?

It's what 67 per cent of those celebrating Mother's Day compulsorily do to mark the occasion. So why is giving flowers not such a good idea?

Some regions will "fail" economically and perhaps socially unless we help them to adjust, the Salvation Army says.

When I was a child I had what might be described as a typical Maori upbringing. We didn't have much but we always had plenty to eat. In reality, we lacked nothing.

Five years after he was arrested for helping his mother to die, a NZ-born doctor has won a landmark victory allowing assisted suicide in South Africa.

The Auditor-General, Lyn Provost, took no pleasure in issuing a disturbing report on the Whanau Ora scheme this week.

Kiwi and UK scientists challenge the notion that people with autism generally see visual motion poorly, and explore the causes of sensory overloads experienced by some sufferers.