A schizophrenic man who beat a friend to death after being released from psychiatric care - despite telling staff he wanted to kill someone - is allowed back into the community without supervision.

Boys will perform just as you expect them to, it seems. If you tell them they aren't as intelligent as girls and are less likely to do well in tests, that is exactly what will happen.

A seven-month-old girl died after a "profound episode of shaking" by either her mother or father, a Coroner has found.

Boy-racers responding to an advertisement for a car heard how the 'owner' crashed and killed a child, as part of an anti-street racing campaign.

TVNZ's complaints committee has upheld the flood of complaints over Paul Henry's questioning of Sir Anand Satyanand's ethnic suitability to be Governor-General.

An attack on two firefighters was an isolated incident despite a rise in assaults on emergency workers, the Fire Service says.

The story of seamstresses' fight for pay parity still resonates 40 years on, Stephen Jewell discovers.

A volunteer firefighter was kicked in the head by drunken party goers when emergency services went to a false report of a car crash in the Marlborough Sounds this morning, say police.

The athletes have performed, the medals have been dished out but the locals are still wondering if it was all worth it.

In an area where dropouts are the norm a school is making dreams of a higher education come true.

An uncle of Chris and Cru Kahui today denied threatening that "somebody would get a bullet" if they talked to police about the night the baby twins suffered their fatal injuries.

One of England's biggest police forces is tweeting every incident it deals with over a 24-hour period to give the public an idea of the workload officers face.

The reaction to what Paul Henry said is far more destructive than the remarks themselves, writes Deborah Hill Cone.

The King's student who supplied James Webster with two bottles of spirits the night he died can now be named.

Secondary school sex education lessons have certainly undergone a change over the years.