"Pilot wasn't able to communicate with the lone flight attendant and took off anyway."

Watchdog slams the Government for failures to address NZ's hazardous drinking culture.

More awareness needed about dangers of consuming alcohol while breastfeeding,expert tells.

Kiwi drinking habits are costing the country more than $1000 per employee, study claims.

Kiwis drink three standard drinks - or three mid-strength beers - a day on average.

More than 500 objections have been submitted over the proposal for Khandallah.

A new battle is brewing over access to alcohol in Auckland.

Photos posted on Instagram can now be considered alcohol advertising, board says.

EDITORIAL: We all need to consider modifying our drink-driving attitudes and behaviour.

Kiwi children exposed to alcohol ads nearly 5 times a day

Almost quarter of Kiwi women drink during their first trimester of pregnancy.

Experts say our problem with binge-drinking is to blame.

Substance abuse in adulthood has been connected to frequent teen drinking.

A few drinks a week could be better for you than not drinking at all, new study suggests.

"We still miss him like hell so it just brings it all back up again."

COMMENT: Again the alcohol industry still seems unable to regulate itself.

Eric Murray says he respects ruling to remove him from parts of a beer campaign

Eric Murray has been removed from a beer campaign after a ruling by the ASA.

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.

Rising economic confidence and "aggressive" marketing techniques are seen as the driving factors behind an 8.9 million litre rise in alcohol availability last year.

As a teenager, there is a huge pressure to accept the cool pragmatism of "this is how it is" when it comes to binge drinking, writes Verity Johnson.

Some experts claim that there may be an entire spectrum of possibilities that lie between the non-alcoholic and the alcoholic state.