Let's not get sidetracked over whether or not Housing New Zealand's dog ban failed.

New Zealand's first sex offender register has been signed off by Cabinet, but will only be available to agencies and not the general public.

I look in the mirror and wonder how I managed to survive the torture and humiliation I faced when I was a teenager, writes Jesse Greenslade.

Pinepine Savage holds proof in her own life that it is possible to turn around a town that everyone had written off.

An Auckland Congolese family whose children are sponsored by NZ donors have been overwhelmed by readers' generosity since their story featured in the Herald.

Even while "the monstrous anger of the guns" was hauling millions to their death, the blame game was already well under way.

If he knows what's good for him, the modern gentleman will prefer brains, not blondes, according to a study of marriage.

Wheelchair users who can't get into a new bank branch in downtown Auckland say its inaccessible design makes New Zealand look like a "Third World" country.

Picture your son or daughter watching an event at the Commonwealth Games, then turning to you and saying: "I want to do that."

When you are feeling in the depths of despair it does not help at all to be told to count your blessings, writes Deborah Hill Cone.

Politicians hate targets. The risk associated with them is all too apparent.

Helping close achievement gaps in our classrooms will be a priority for a leading academic appointed to a major new science education role.

Life-long street activist Sue Bradford has turned to the academic world in a bid to overcome the "mindless activism" of much of New Zealand's protest movement.

Is poverty for life? A Treasury report suggests not, writes Brian Fallow. Only 24 per cent of those at the bottom decile in 2002 were there seven years later.

In his Dialogue piece last week Professor Warren Brookbanks questioned whether a specific new offence relating to strangulation would deter domestic violence.

The Government is falling short of key targets it set itself for reducing child abuse and rheumatic fever.

Georgia Hageman was in bed at 4.30am when her waters broke and less than four hours later the 15-year-old Aucklander was holding her baby son.

Today, Pita Sharples will carry out the first reading of the new Maori Language Bill 2014 in Parliament.

The curriculum in New Zealand schools is "compulsory" and nobody minds - until it is suggested that all New Zealand children should be given a grounding in te reo Maori.

He went inside the minds of our most dangerous prisoners, told us how to bring up our kids, and now Nigel Latta turns moral guardian in search of answers to society’s biggest problems.

'Let's go and have a look around," is how my Dad announces a trip to a town whose main draws are a supermarket and an obese pigeon.

The Labour leader apologised for being a man and the lid came off a sizeable can of worms, writes Patricia Greig.

When Lilly McDonald first heard about an online group offering stuff for nothing, she didn't believe it.

Actress Angelina Jolie will visit the asylum seeker detention centre on Nauru in a move likely to put further international pressure on the Australian Government's harsh policies.

We're all just attachment junkies who desperately need love and connection, writes Deborah Hill Cone.

Auckland Mayor Len Brown hailed his first 10-year budget in 2012 as the foundation block to transform Auckland once and for all.

Jake Miller was head prefect of his school with a $40,000 scholarship to study law waiting for him.

Derryn Hinch wants to be able to turn on his mobile phone and see the names of all sex offenders in the neighbourhood.

Mother of two Jenny Daniell-Wiig used to rely on a foodbank to feed her family on a regular basis. But with help, she's made changes.

Tracing my whakapapa or family tree is something I'm looking forward to and there are some awesome people who are going to help me do it.