The Government's decision to scrap the healthy school food guidelines flew in the face of a huge body of evidence, writes Sue Kedgley.

Children are being tricked into unhealthy food choices by marketers who make misleading nutritional claims and use celebrities to endorse their products, according to research by an anti-obesity action group.

Mana leader Hone Harawira will seek talks with the Maori Party about his Feed the Kids bill.

Police have asked schools to warn students and parents off boozy after-parties during the ball season.

Editorial: Expectations about the Government's food-in-schools programme have waxed and waned in the past few weeks.

Targeting parents whose kids' vaccinations are not up to date will save lives, federal Health Minister Tanya Plibersek says.

It's weird, but before I had kids I thought it was excellent to subvert young minds by indoctrinating them on political issues, writes Deborah Hill Cone. Now I'm not so sure.

A 13-year-old girl who hurled a racist insult at an Australian Aussie rules player has apologised.

One Sunday in the April school holidays we had an early dinner at the Rose & Shamrock Village Inn in Havelock North. It’s an unpretentious, bustling, faux English/Irish pub that’s a great place for family dining.

A church minister has been cleared of assaulting an off-duty police officer who was refereeing his son's under-10 rugby game in a disagreement over a try.

People who begin drinking alcohol during puberty are more likely to become hooked, researchers have warned.

One-child families are the latest thing. "The only child is a growing phenomenon all over the world, The Telegraph. "Half of UK families now have just one child," says The Guardian.

I am sitting at the back of a university physics class while the students cluster in small groups around the whiteboards lining the lecture hall, ready to tackle the day’s equation.

Danielle Wright meets a group of teenage lawn bowlers at the New Lynn Bowling Club.

New Zealand secondary school students realise the importance of Asia, but are not confident they have the knowledge and understanding to engage with Asians

A 12-year-old girl who took her own life while in foster care was not given proper support after she claimed to have been sexually abused by a caregiver, a coroner said today.

The family of a teen who took her own life two weeks after her best friend committed suicide want schools to implement an anti-bullying and suicide education programme.

A row has erupted between an athletic coach and a top school over a star athlete who was allowed to play in a rugby match only weeks before a world athletic championship.

Danielle Wright finds yoga for kids is as much about becoming grounded as it is about getting up and moving.

Pacific health experts are calling for a quota on the amount of fatty food exported to the Pacific Islands, where heart disease, diabetes and obesity are the norm.

Special-needs students will begin the new term with another potentially disruptive change in taxi companies used to take them to and from school.

North Queensland coach Neil Henry says football has taken a back seat as devastated players and staff grieve the shock death of promising young player Alex Elisala.

New Zealand-born rugby league player Alex Elisala has died in an Australian hospital, just days after playing his first test match for Samoa.

A legal high lobbyist says synthetic cannabis is a low-risk psychoactive substance that had not caused any death and was statistically safer than alcohol.

Weightlifting for kids? Danielle Wright finds it's not as bad as it sounds.

So, you think your child's funny? Danielle Wright talks to the kids comedy industry to find out how you can encourage your children to make people, other than their mum and dad, laugh.