Brains behind successful Hawkes Bay scheme given chance to put ideas into practice nationwide.

A new Govt package will give subsidies to employers who agree to train a young person and give them a permanent job.

Women's refuges say some women fleeing from violence may no longer be able to get...

The Malaysian authorities are at the centre of an increasingly heated row after it emerged that 66 Muslim boys identified by teachers as "effeminate" had been dispatched to a special camp to discourage them from becoming gay.

The recent flurry of gosh-how-shocking stories about female consumption of pornography is emblematic.

A shake-up of the Family Court could end counselling and mediation services...

What if your daughter squanders her considerable intelligence on meaningless jobs and other fripperies, waiting for her prince to come?

Think of preventive health care as the condom that most governments don't want to wear.

When Confederate forces fired the first shots at Fort Sumter on April 12, 150 years ago, triggering the American Civil War, almost four million African Americans were slaves.

Meadowlands, a shopping centre in one of the most Chinese parts of Auckland, tells a story of how NZ is...

The Crimes Amendment Bill will only criminalise people who are already on the margins of society, says Dita De Boni.

An expert says many more babies would survive if the country quit smoking and reduced its obesity.