A mentoring programme aimed at helping women victims of domestic violence is the brainchild of fashion designer Annah Stretton.

Len Brown will find it tough to be re-elected Mayor of Auckland, according to a new Herald-DigiPoll survey.

Venues, DJs, photographers and decorations have been hired, dresses have been bought and hair and makeup appointments booked - but school ball season is still months away.

To celebrate the arrival of the honey bee in New Zealand 175 years ago, we explore some amazing facts about bees.

Controversial church plans to picket Lorde's Kansas concert and claims NZ is hated by God for its filthy manner of life, false religious systems and evil govt.

Wildfire, the social marketing firm co-founded by Kiwi expat Victoria Ransom and sold to Google for $250m is being 'sunsetted' barely 18 months after the acquisition.

A doomed tone characterises virtually all of the political commentary about the Labour Party at the moment, writes Bryce Edwards.

The Government is facing flak on two fronts over issues affecting Maori Television, amid staff concerns about plans to realign its news and current affairs department.

They're alternative rock's towering giants - two men responsible for some of the biggest riffs, baddest songs and best albums of the past 20 years.

Our generation has accepted obsessive-compulsive tendencies as part of modern life. Lee Suckling explains.

More Pacific and Maori students are doing better in the classroom - leaving high school with higher qualifications and better options in life.

Tyler McCarthy knows that in order to get to where he wants to be one day, he has to work hard now.

Auckland's "dysfunctional" transport and technology museum is to be reinvented as a hands-on learning hub.

We're increasingly becoming a nation of renters with less than half of us now owning our own place, Census data shows.

Auckland Airport is urging the Government to consider closely the threat posed to competition.

In the last 100 years there have been many diets that various people and companies have advocated – some are bizarre, some are gross and some are deadly. Here are 10 diets that you don't want to try.

A study released by NASA has revealed that modern civilisation is heading for collapse. Today we look at seven civilisations that have disappeared and the reasons behind their demise.

It's time to reclaim periods as a healthy, normal part of life. There's nothing shameful about them, Shelley Bridgeman writes.

She can see it, that moment almost a year ago when her husband was shot and killed.

A passion for travel has inspired a Kiwi artist to create some of the more unusual maps you'll see.

Yvonne Costar is used to seeing Maori families around her battling on struggle street.

A Kiwi believes she has what it takes to spend a year on "Mars" - although any close encounters won't be with cute aliens but curious polar bears.

Kaikoura's world-renowned wild marine environment will be better protected by a new marine reserve.

Stacey Jaundrell couldn't believe it when she heard her friend Charlotte Dawson was dead.

We were just the width of a wobble board away from becoming a state of Australia at the time of that country's federation in 1901.

A New Zealand forensic scientist helped provide the crucial breakthrough in a horrific Australian murder cold case.

The family of Kiwi Paul Weeks are hanging on to slim hopes he could still be alive after it was revealed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 flew for more than seven hours.

It's a sunny weekday morning and the lounge of Maygrove Village in Orewa is sparsely populated.

Charlotte Dawson's closest friends want you to know they loved her, they valued her, their lives are not the same without her. But they also want you to know the truth.