Gen Y kiwis are staying home longer, delaying life's big decisions.

A jury finds a teenage boy not guilty of raping a 13-year-old girl outside a 16th birthday party on the Kapiti Coast last year.

Forty places will be available to serious young offenders in the Government's radical military-style boot camps. Details were revealed today.

13-year-old who wants to sail around the world has the support of her seafaring father, but not of child protection authorities.

Is it too easy to get a driver's licence in New Zealand? The core evidence for the affirmative lies in two sets of statistics.

Different punishments given to brawling Grammar and Kelston rugby players have much to do with their future playing schedules, the committee charged with punishing them says.

Police have launched a homicide inquiry following the death of three-year-old Palmerston North girl Kash McKinnon.

Labour MP David Cunliffe asks why "the 'least guilty' Kelston boy received a sentence 6 to 7 times longer than the 'guiltiest' Grammar boy."

Derwin Randle has spent two years studying hospitality, tourism and culinary art. But right now he's glad to have a minimum-wage job in a factory.

Emergency services called because of visitor's fears for 3-year-old girl who later died in hospital.

Children from Ranui School went home with new zest for reading after spending time with Warrior and NRL star Manu Vatuvei at Waitakere Library yesterday afternoon.

Police hope a post mortem on a three-year-old girl who died today of suspected head injuries will reveal more about the circumstances in which she died.