Māori leaders agree the high and damaging availability is all about commercial profit.

Man caught drink-driving twice within 12 hours, after heading out to buy cheesecake.

OPINION: New rules are a significant step in the right direction.

New drug report says Māori are three times more likely to OD than non-Māori.

Councils may soon have more success in introducing their own rules for drinking.

The changes will give councils more power to control alcohol sales in their backyard.

The Prime Minister did not say which way she would vote on Chloe Swarbrick's bill.

Judge Jonathan Krebs has ruled that Joshua Wolland be discharged without conviction.

Afterpay for alcohol "getting into the mainstream and that's really, really concerning".

"I am trying to give Moses a second chance," says Molloy.

Sunny Mikaiera Nepia has admitted his high-speed dangerous driving killed a woman.

A repeat drink-driver claims to have ditched the booze and to be enjoying recovery.

Calls for the cost of booze to rise, especially really cheap drinks sold at off-licences.

One major court dispute over booze sales is over, but more legal wrangling may be brewing.

What do you get if you mix bourbon and coke with guns? A court case.

Mayor Phil Goff: "The police often tell me nothing good happens in the city after 2am".

Murupara community leader leading a war she says is stacked against her.

Olivia Molly Rogers assumed it was normal not to remember large parts of her night.

Further calls for tightening the availability of alcohol, hiking the price of booze.

Young people are drinking less but they are still behind most emergency department chaos.

Too many New Zealanders are drinking dangerously.

Too many people were coming from outside West Auckland to buy spirits, trust says.

Alcohol industry concerned liquor stores could be targeted by looters.

Home deliveries present problems with minors and drunks, says Alcohol Healthwatch.