Joe Jackson learned of his son Michael's death from a fan.

A "grossly intoxicated" man who took a samurai sword to his mother's throat when she refused to hand over his car keys has been ordered to undergo alcohol counselling.

The positives of drug use need to be spoken of freely, according to a visiting British academic.

A man suffering from paranoid schizophrenia tried to kill his brother-in-law days after being released from a mental health unit at Auckland Hospital.

Drinking and driving went together like bourbon and coke and then someone died. The offender could legally be back behind the wheel soon after he's out of jail. Phil Taylor asks why there is no life ban

Drinkers of wine, sherry and port may be unknowingly breaking the law and consuming small doses of the party drug fantasy.