Principals fear many of the 15,000 students who failed to reach the critical NCEA reading, writing and maths benchmark last year will give up on school or future study.

Summer has been a season of extremes, with record-breaking temperatures and heat warnings being swept away by the devastating storms.

New rules allowing GPs and nurse practitioners to prescribe drugs to treat ADHD increase the risk of over-diagnosis, over-prescribing, addiction, psychosis and other harms, some clinicians are warning.

It was a photo of a young woman, posing in a bathroom mirror, that was the final straw for Sarah*. That's because the photo had been taken in her bathroom, and the obsessed woman who had been stalking her almost eight years had not been invited in.