A South Australia police officer posted on his social media page before taking his life in front of hospital staff.

Parliament will this week debate whether domestic violence victims should get extra paid leave, as the Women's Refuge presents new research.

COMMENT: Though the right to die committee is still hearing submissions, its members probably feel they have heard all the arguments.

Tutaki, a social enterprise, uses a gym to fund extra community services for young people in Stratford. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

A couple in Auckland is considering legal action against The Original Gypsy Fair for allegedly exploiting the gypsy culture for commercial gain.

The story of two five-year-old boys, one white and one black, is teaching people about racial harmony.

A transgender athlete has been selected for this month's Australian International.

Child Youth and Family is to review how it handled a case where five children were so badly neglected they had to eat rotten food.

Suddenly budget-conscious shoppers cannot buy cheap multigrain bread.

COMMENT: Sometimes, the simplest of statements can touch hearts and change lives, writes Cathy Casey.

For every sanitary product bought by a company, another will be given to a high school for free.

A $200 a week payment for families with young children is being proposed by Gareth Morgan.

Southside Tattoo in Maryland, United States, is covering up 'hate tattoos' for nothing because 'sometimes people make bad choices'.

Steve Braunias on transgender people and bathrooms.

A Kiwi teenager has spoken out about her school's decision to allow a transgender student to use the girls' bathrooms, saying her rights were overlooked.

COMMENT: The mayors of New Zealand's three most impoverished districts have asked the Prime Minister to establish "demarcation zones".

The transgender community has responded to a Kiwi teenager who spoke out about her school's decision to allow a transgender student to use the girls' bathrooms.

The real minimum wage needed for a family to have a decent standard of living is about to rise to $20.20 an hour, says the Living Wage movement.

COMMENT: Inaugural chairwoman of Super Diverse Women Mai Chen explains why the initiative should matter to all New Zealanders.

As a New Zealander with Chinese ancestry, writer and actor Helene Wong shares her experience of diversity in NZ.

Super Diverse Women commissioned a survey of almost 300 Kiwis to assess their experiences of discrimination and diversity.

An inquiry into the abuse of children and others in state care to ensure the mistakes of the past are not being repeated would surely do no harm.

Students at Papakura High School are striving to change the community's perception of their school, one of the country's most disadvantaged.

An artwork mirroring a state house, on Auckland's waterfront, has been officially unveiled tonight.

A team of journalists spent a year inside one of the country's most underprivileged schools filming the Herald's first long-form documentary.

Auckland's former deputy mayor says housing the homeless this winter is more important than low rates.

NZ is heading "off the track" on housing, child poverty and imprisonment despite dramatic gains on some other social indicators, a new report says.

COMMENT: There is frustration as well as fury in the messages mainstream media are receiving. Somehow we need to work out what is not being said.

More needs to be done to help children and young people access help, counsellors say, following the deaths of two children.

Migrants do not dilute New Zealand's cultural identity despite more coming from non-traditional source countries, experts say.