Lesley Elliott's received the Westpac Women of Influence Supreme Award - I wish I'd got her message when I was a teenager in schooll, writes Deborah Hill Cone.

There's a lot of talk these days about the work/life balance and for many, smartphones and cloud technology could mean the end of the all day job, writes Matt Heath.

A carve-up of the housing portfolio in the new Cabinet has alerted the country to a radical reform the Government has in mind for state housing.

An eating disorders expert has slammed the use of a skinny mannequin at clothing store Glassons, which sparked controversy because its ribs are showing.

A pianist who was homeless in Hollywood for a year and a half says he never lacked for company on the streets.

Prime Minister John Key has split housing issues across three ministers as National speeds up its shift toward developing social housing by private providers and reducing reliance on state....

In the 1950s a Wellington student, later to become an accounting profession stalwart, paid his way through university via newspaper advertisements, writes Bob Jones.

Matt Heath writes: Why do my sons spend most of their time pretending to kill people? Are they just tiger cubs learning to look after themselves or have I raised psychopaths?

One of the main trends coming through from this year's pay survey is the lack of women in the list of top-paid chief executives. So where are they?

Deborah Hill Cone writes: Are you ready? It's September 29 and ta-dah! Today is the day! I've decided I'm going to be a better person.

Thousands of students are travelling long distances across Auckland to avoid their local schools - and there's concern about the flow-on effects.

On Monday I made several thousand dollars on paper. The share prices of electricity companies surged following the election.

Five things for business to take on board while John Key relishes his victory and forms his next Government.

The country has had six years of being run like a very large company, and tomorrow is the referendum on whether most people feel that's the right way to go about building prosperity, or doomed to stunt us as a nation.

Matt Heath writes: Soon parents will get in as much trouble for putting sugar in their coffee as I did for a tasty little cigarette.

Deborah Hilll Cone writes: I'm neither right-wing nor left-wing: I just believe in rigour. Fair dooz? But this election I'm depressed and unimpressed.

Pranks can be fun and cause some great laughs at the time - but they can also go horribly wrong and end in serious or harmul consequences.

Grammy winner Jemaine Clement says some of his earliest New Zealand TV roles left him "ashamed" after "running down" his Maori culture.

He was about 13, coming towards me on the downtown footpath. I could see he intended to say something, so I prepared to tell him the time, or where the nearest public loo was.

September 19 will mark the 121st anniversary of women's suffrage in New Zealand. This country is proud it was the first to give women the vote.

NFL player Michael Sam told reporters that he hoped in future he would be seen "as Michael Sam the football player, instead of as Michael Sam the gay football player".

Young people without educational qualifications are increasingly being left on the shelf by potential partners, New Zealand researchers say.

A new poll on child poverty has found most Kiwis want more done to fix the problem - but not if it meant paying higher taxes.

With her Auckland ties, Annette Sykes says she could have easily stood in the Tamaki Makarau electorate.

Perhaps because of the impending election, public discussion of our cannabis laws has been gaining momentum.

Housing Minister Nick Smith was shouted down when he claimed at a forum on Auckland's housing crisis that foreign buyers weren't impacting on prices.