Auckland has some of the best art galleries on offer in the South Pacific.

Trustees at Otatara Primary School say a decision to give students fake letters claiming school hours would be extended was not politically motivated.

The Rotorua Girls' High School ball went ahead without Kristi-Rae Ruri-Gardiner, who died in a car accident a month ago.

Virgil Evetts and Diana Clement discover the public can benefit from student chefs learning on the job, with great food at bargain prices.

The country's Lions Clubs have struck a deal with the Reserve Bank to get the full value of defunct NZ coins, for charity.

Mentoring scheme will help women make the leap to CEO or a place in the boardroom.

Early childhood provider KidiCorp is the focus of a Serious Fraud Office inquiry over $30 million of taxpayer money.

A drug dealing 12-year-old took a kilogram of cannabis to sell to his mates at an intermediate school.

The teacher stabbed by a Korean student at Avondale College has been criticised in an inquiry into the incident.

New Zealand will open its doors to 200 education scholarships for Pacific people, as well as commit $4.8 million towards the policing of Pacific fisheries, Prime Minister John Key announcement today.

"Expert practitioners" will work with schools to lift achievement, but a teachers' union is sceptical of the government's announcement.