Christchurch has been rattled by a 4.1 quake this morning.

A Christchurch dad whose 13-year-old daughter disappeared was so worried he rang the Star-Times seeking media help.

Government departments are failing to promote racial diversity.

For the third year in a row Elaine Alexander has donned her firefighting gear and climbed 51 flights of stairs to the top of Auckland's Sky Tower to raise money for a cancer charity.

Increasing numbers of fed-up parents want schools to get tough on discipline.

A man upset at a woman breastfeeding in a Taranaki mall foodcourt took a photo of her and posted it to social network Twitter yesterday. The photo identifies the woman and her baby.

Television presenter Ali Mau wants homophobic Kiwis to wake up.

Tough times and a tight job market have failed to put students off arts degrees, and philosophy and religious studies are continuing to prove more popular than chemistry.

American student Stephen Houseman was in New Zealand to follow his dreams, but now he's living with the fact a moment's inattention killed three of his friends in a horror crash last Saturday, including his best mate, Austin Brashears, 21.

Pacific Island families being hit by fundraising delegations from their home islands want them stopped, Labour MP Su'a William Sio says.