Pass rates in crucial NCEA maths and literacy tests improved on last year, but at least 34,800 teenagers, including most candidates from poor schools, failed.
An intensive treatment for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is now being trialled in this country by a group of 17 New Zealanders aged 18 to 25 years old.
A former media executive who now owns a store in coastal Northland has been left with a fractured shoulder after an alleged assault by a customer in broad daylight.
Colonel Sanders has better web security than many digital health providers, an IT expert has claimed, saying the government is failing to enforce what minimum standards it has.
For Christchurch father of two Joe Baxter, there was no question he needed to act fast when alarms were raised over asbestos in children's play sand sold by Kmart.
A top Australian arts festival has seen the withdrawal of dozens of writers, in a backlash against its decision to bar an Australian Palestinian author after the Bondi Beach mass shooting.
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has expressed grave concern at reports protesters have been killed in Iran, while the government is urging any NZers still there to leave now.