The majority of children admitted to the Starship hospital as the result of suspected abuse or neglect are under 1 year old.

A new year means a wealth of resolutions. Most of us want to make life better, challenge ourselves or realise some of our ambitions

"Oh my God, my hairdresser made my hair far too dark this time." "The service here is appalling - I get so sick of eating out all the time."

So far we've identified the achievements of the Treaty settlement and reconciliation process, and flagged that the process is now being pushed beyond the point of being useful.

The richest people on Earth got richer in 2014, adding US$92 billion ($118 billion) to their collective fortune in the face of falling energy prices and geopolitical turmoil incited by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

New Zealand's eurocentric reference point in trade has been transformed in the past 20 years, writes Philip Burdon.

City comes out swinging over Government suggestion that ratepayer cash be used to prop up SkyCity's international convention centre.

Kiwis are getting healthier, but New Zealand still faces serious health issues, especially in the most deprived areas.

Christmas is meant to be a time of happiness and good cheer. Instead I find myself getting very angry.

New in-fill for artificial fields is being investigated as residents near an Ellerslie complex complain of the "horrible" smell of rubber tyres.

Not drinking is the easy part. The hard part is dealing with people’s reactions to your alcohol-free lifestyle, Deborah Hill Cone writes.

Matt Heath writes: Last Christmas my two boys got so many presents they became bored opening them - if your kids get too much, why not take them to see the people who don't?

Scotland Yard is investigating claims that a Tory MP throttled a young boy to death during a depraved sex party in the 1970s and that two other boys were killed by a VIP paedophile ring.

The latest figures show nearly one quarter of our 1.1 million children under 18 live in households with very low incomes after housing costs.

A police officer who racially abused a taxi driver in Queenstown last year has resigned.

The queues start about 3am each day, but the Auckland City Mission says just a third of the donations it needs this Christmas have been raised.

Wriggling toddlers will meet their match when Kidz First Clendon Community Clinic nurses get the best seat in the house.

The All Blacks, Warriors and the Black Caps say proposed changes to alcohol sponsorship and advertising would threaten the sustainability of their codes at nearly every level.

Some teachers need to get over their victim mentality and recognise the benefit of cutting their holiday time, a leading principal says.

A bill which would legalise voluntary euthanasia has been dropped by Labour MP Iain Lees-Galloway at the request of his leader Andrew Little.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott plans to hold a referendum in 2017 to change the constitution and finally recognise Aborigines as the nation's first people.

Hundreds of families from as far away as Hamilton are queuing at the Auckland City Mission for help to put food on the table this Christmas.

It's ten years today since smoking was banned in bars, but Maori are still more likely to smoke than Europeans. We map where the ethnic smoking gap lies.

Doctors question if an already stretched workforce can cope with the govt's ambitious target to treat every cancer patient within two months.

A new study has found that two-thirds of children in private rental housing in Auckland and the Waikato move house within their first two years.

I liked to drink. I liked to be drunk. "You self-medicate," my psychiatrist said, kindly, writes Deborah Hill Cone. Strangely, I even liked hangovers.

Middle-aged home buyers face being locked out of the property market because banks are worried they are too old to pay off their mortgage before they retire.

Nineteen youths with unsettled upbringings were honoured for their outstanding achievements at a special ceremony yesterday.

He's 28 and a former mechanic - but had to go to jail to learn that it's useful to save some of your money.