Five things for business to take on board while John Key relishes his victory and forms his next Government.

The country has had six years of being run like a very large company, and tomorrow is the referendum on whether most people feel that's the right way to go about building prosperity, or doomed to stunt us as a nation.

Dear John and David. Please forgive the first-name familiarity. I'm older than you are so it doesn't feel terribly out of order.

A Colombian couple have started a social enterprise with disadvantaged New Zealanders as a way to thank this country for two Kiwi missionaries who devoted their lives to Colombia.

Matt Heath writes: Soon parents will get in as much trouble for putting sugar in their coffee as I did for a tasty little cigarette.

Deborah Hilll Cone writes: I'm neither right-wing nor left-wing: I just believe in rigour. Fair dooz? But this election I'm depressed and unimpressed.

He was about 13, coming towards me on the downtown footpath. I could see he intended to say something, so I prepared to tell him the time, or where the nearest public loo was.

September 19 will mark the 121st anniversary of women's suffrage in New Zealand. This country is proud it was the first to give women the vote.

NFL player Michael Sam told reporters that he hoped in future he would be seen "as Michael Sam the football player, instead of as Michael Sam the gay football player".

Young people without educational qualifications are increasingly being left on the shelf by potential partners, New Zealand researchers say.

A new poll on child poverty has found most Kiwis want more done to fix the problem - but not if it meant paying higher taxes.

Perhaps because of the impending election, public discussion of our cannabis laws has been gaining momentum.

With her Auckland ties, Annette Sykes says she could have easily stood in the Tamaki Makarau electorate.

Housing Minister Nick Smith was shouted down when he claimed at a forum on Auckland's housing crisis that foreign buyers weren't impacting on prices.

A Queenstown policewoman accused of racially abusing a taxi driver in the resort last year has been found guilty.

A police officer denies allegations she racially abused a taxi driver in Queenstown last year while affected by a cocktail of prescription drugs and alcohol.

Dr Harold Williams has long been featured by Guinness World Records as the world's greatest linguist. He spoke 58 languages.

New Zealand's expanding building industry has signed up its 9000th apprentice - but says it is running out of young people to fill the demand for more.

As his hard-hitting TV series about New Zealand’s biggest challenges draws to a close, Nigel Latta reflects on what he knows now

A transgender refugee from Colombia who was knocked back by other countries says she has "found paradise" in New Zealand after being officially recognised as a woman.

Labour wants drivers' licences and passports in New Zealand to offer three gender options.

Lydia Sosene writes: A full-strength alcohol outlet would be a recipe for disaster and the social cost on our struggling community will continue to triple.

When Cecil Lochan settled in Mt Roskill in the mid-1970s, the Fijian-Indian was the first non-European in the street. His neighbour wasn't happy.

The Government’s proposal for get-ahead loans is okay, but it won't help New zealanders who are still in serious financial trouble, writes Peter Calder.