Police and agencies are working with schools and parents after a group of young people were caught playing what is thought to be a lethal choking game.

A two-year-old Gisborne boy is in a critical but stable condition in Starship Children's Hospital after being run over by a car in a driveway.

All NZ regions had more births than deaths in the past year, with Auckland contributing 45 per cent of NZ's natural increase.

A Bright Sparks finalist who invented a device that finds the nearest available parking space says he would love to go on and invent other things.

Shelley Bridgeman and her daughter discover Harry Potter's world has been recreated in sunny Florida.

The principal of NZ's largest school is worried about a North Shore student party being organised on Facebook.

The fewer siblings children have, the happier they are, a survey has suggested.

Students are paying people overseas to do their homework, according to a company that "outsources" work.

North Shore residents are calling on police to monitor social media sites to shut down youth beach parties before they get out of control.

The inexperience of a teen driver with a new learner's licence was a "massive factor" in a fatal smash, say police.

A spider may have contributed to a quad bike crash that killed Westport teenager Renee McNelis on Monday.