Teachers are being kicked, punched and stabbed by children of P-addicted mothers.

Around 435,000 residents would be forced to flee in an Auckland eruption scenario.

The 7.8 Kaikoura Earthquake triggered the most violent shaking ever seen in New Zealand.

Young New Zealanders are increasing shunning universities for apprenticeships

NZ scientists find giving pregnant mums repeat doses of steroids helps prem babies health.

Researchers say a government agency holds more than 100 reports into alleged fish dumping.

Expert art criminologist believes thieves could use $1m stolen paintings for cash ransom.

He has been accepted into a two-year Master in Public Policy course starting in August.

Scientists says new study results encouraging when climate research faces fresh threat.

When he graduates university next year, Tristan Pang will be 16. What's next?

Posters for a "white rights" group believed to have been started in NZ were posted around Auckland University.

Unnecessary prescriptions could lead to serious long-term consequences.

A young Auckland woman's tragic death saved six lives on her 20th birthday.

Our alpine parrot may be much smarter than we think, scientists say.

By better understanding how our brains work, can we change how we feel pain? A world-leading Kiwi neuroscientist, back in New Zealand, talks to science reporter Jamie Morton.

Researchers crunched the numbers on your ride.

A Kiwi researcher is set to peer inside the minds of porn users.

Smoking weed, dirty undies and boring leaders were hot topics of the night at the first election debate of the year.

No room for the Conservatives or The Opportunities Party at first debate.

Lawyer and former naval officer Christopher Penk has been chosen to replace John Key as National's candidate in the Helensville electorate.

Auckland University students are sceptical a new European group could 'accidentally come up with a slogan that evokes Nazi Germany'.

NZ research may hold key to disease treatment to stop spread from cell to cell.

Daily and weekly doses effective, but not monthly.

The Government must step in to curb the marketing of unhealthy food to our children, a leading public health researcher argues.

Pre and post-natal depression has been studied exhaustively in mothers - but a new study of 3500 Kiwi men has revealed how dads are also affected by the baby blues.

Manufacturers and marketers have long stuck by three certain "dimensions" of food - taste, texture and smell. But what if there was a fourth?

Scientists have ruled out any suggestion this morning's 5.2 quake was linked to the mass whale stranding at Farewell Spit.

Kiwi conflict resolution experts have slammed the country's "dangerous double standard" on the Israel-Palestine problem.

Ice baths, used by the All Blacks and other elite athletes, are no more effective than active recovery according to new research undertaken in part by the University of Auckland.

Too little "huff and puff" and too much screen time, childhood obesity study finds.