Warning to Govt: Set alcohol price floor or people will die
Alcohol Healthwatch says bringing in a minimum price for alcohol will save lives.
Alcohol Healthwatch says bringing in a minimum price for alcohol will save lives.
Earliest opening to be 7am under draft bottle-shop rules.
Kiwis have been revealed as being among the world's most prolific pre-loaders.
A set of Auckland parents have been left fuming after allegations an Uber driver bought alcohol for a 15-year-old on his way to a
Aucklanders aged between 60 and 64 are a shocking 107 per cent more likely to be hospitalised for alcohol-related harm than people in any other part of the country.
The mother of a 17-year-old boy who died after drinking heavily says she has no resentment towards his older friend who supplied him alcohol.
Auckland Council may follow the example of its transport arm and ban the advertising of alcohol on its land and buildings.
The country's worst drink driver has undergone a lengthy prison rehabilitation programme aimed at stopping him offending again upon his release next month.
MPs at a select committee are considering a law change that would lower the drink driving limit from 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood to 50mg.
Some experts claim that there may be an entire spectrum of possibilities that lie between the non-alcoholic and the alcoholic state.
Alcohol causes more than one in 20 deaths of New Zealanders aged under 80, new University of Otago research suggests.
Major alcohol reforms have been passed in Parliament this evening, concluding a four-year debate over drinking laws in New Zealand.
A project designed to encourage New Zealanders to drink responsibly has been launched, but has been met with suspicion by alcohol health advocates.
Children as young as nine are among hundreds under 16 being treated by specialist clinics for alcoholics and drug addicts in greater Auckland. One-hundred and ninety were treated last year, and that's the tip of the iceberg.
Alcohol Healthwatch has told the Government it is supporting "legalised drunk driving" by delaying moves to lower the drink driving limit.
A "zero-tolerance" policy will fine teenage drivers $200 and 50 demerit points if they have any alcohol at all in their system.
A British sailor charged on Anzac Day with having excess breath alcohol twice the drink-driving limit escaped prosecution after high level intervention.