Children are living in tiny, damp and sometimes squalid boarding houses, while Housing NZ staff are discouraging people who are seeking help from formally registering their need, saying they have no business interfering.

Auckland Grammar old boy John Chisholm wants his sons to go to a good single-sex school like he did - but they don't live in the right zone.

We have all had the experience of meeting someone and - for reasons that are often completely unknown - an instant dislike develops.

A P-smoking mother has been convicted of giving her young daughters methamphetamine through second-hand smoke inhalation, in what experts are calling a legal first.

Writing to schools demanding action on bullying is a "wet" response to the problem, Labour's David Shearer says.

The Government's "it's not okay" campaign may be axed to free up funding for the new Whanau Ora programme.