NZ should hope John Key shows some common sense - tempered with heart - when he goes about trying to reduce from 328,000 the number of Kiwis on solo parent, sickness and invalid benefits, writes Fran O'Sullivan.

At first, I thought somebody had died and we'd stumbled into the place where the corpse was being embalmed...

Expect a plethora of international flavour at this year's wearable art show, writes Ann Newbery.

It might be a film named for our greatest rail disaster but Tangiwai is also a tragic tale of love and cricket.

Time and technology wait for no one, so can an overhaul of the Privacy Act be truly future proof?