Children who are given antibiotics in the first two years of their lives are at greater risk of becoming obese in early childhood.

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.

A Colombian couple have started a social enterprise with disadvantaged New Zealanders as a way to thank this country for two Kiwi missionaries who devoted their lives to Colombia.

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.

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.

A Queenstown policewoman accused of racially abusing a taxi driver in the resort last year has been found guilty.

Overseas studies support Kiwi research on role of casual relationships in child abuse, writes Ewen McQueen.

Teacher Peter Lyons says he's finally learned a valuable lesson - life isn't fair, so he explains why he's decided to vote the right way this election.

A police officer denies allegations she racially abused a taxi driver in Queenstown last year while affected by a cocktail of prescription drugs and alcohol.

Dr Harold Williams has long been featured by Guinness World Records as the world's greatest linguist. He spoke 58 languages.

New Zealand's expanding building industry has signed up its 9000th apprentice - but says it is running out of young people to fill the demand for more.

As his hard-hitting TV series about New Zealand’s biggest challenges draws to a close, Nigel Latta reflects on what he knows now

A transgender refugee from Colombia who was knocked back by other countries says she has "found paradise" in New Zealand after being officially recognised as a woman.