WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT: Boy, 7, needed surgery after bully bashed his head into a pole.

COMMENT: University staff should be heeded when they cite pressure to drop standards.

A teen couple say they have been forced to stay at home in fear after their school said it could not ensure their safety.

Warning: Distressing material. An Australian teen who took her own life after being bullied and raped wrote a powerful warning letter to her peers.

Under The Bridge marks the New Zealand Herald's first foray into long-form documentary making.

Wouldn't want mum, boss or enemies to see your post? Don't do it.

Social media giants have been accused by UK officials of confusing children into signing away their privacy. Youngsters desperate

SUP221016NAGnina.JPGKaitaia 18-year-old Nina Griffiths has won The Hits People's Choice Award for 2016.PHOTO/SUPPLIED After a spate

After a spate of youth suicides struck the Far North township of Kaitaia earlier this year, an unlikely hero emerged from the tragedy.

Police have shot a boy, 14, after he pulled a knife during a school fight in a horrifying scene witnessed by fellow students. Warning: Graphic.

Ever torn the wrapping off a Secret Santa present, only to be horrified by what's inside? You're not alone.

Nearly a quarter of 10-year-olds say they are bullied on a weekly basis.

Worried Hato Petera College principal is expecting bad news about the future of his school.

A Puerto Rican model who was bullied because of her large eyebrows is having the last laugh after being snapped up to pose for top fashion and beauty brands.

New Zealand's online watchdog launches a new hotline tomorrow for Kiwis to report cyber hate and have "trolls" investigated.

Sticking cigarettes up bottoms and "cockfights". The bullying inside Australia's most humiliating workplace.

Unfortunately bullying in the workplace is all too common. Indeed, a recent survey found that more than a quarter of workers have

An admirer of New Zealand teenager 'Poison Ivy' has livestreamed himself carving his own flesh with a kitchen knife - after she logged into the same webchat session.

COMMENT: The discovery suggests an easy way to deal with trolls: ignore them, rather than giving them the satisfaction of an angry reaction.

Natalie came up with an idea that would allow students a judgment-free way to find lunch mates without the fear of being rejected.

Kiwi mum said she had no idea how affected her daughter was by a classmate's taunts until it was almost too late.

A new documentary exposes the trauma young teens go through and how social media and bullying can kill.

An Auckland high school teacher has been found guilty of serious misconduct following a number of bullying incidents of students.

Te Kauwhata College principal Deborah Hohneck said it had been a game between friends which went too far.

A central Queensland teenager has been moved to tears after almost 50,000 people came out in support of her online petition against relentless bullying.

The Prince has spoken out about what he sees as the internet's biggest issues.

Bullies once confined their behaviour to the schoolyard. The digital world has changed all that, as our revealing series about cyberbullying illustrates this week.

A new national cyber-law centre is being set up and its first project is putting the Harmful Digital Communications Act under the microscope.

Silver Ferns shooter Cathrine Tuivaiti (nee Latu) has been cyberbullied because she was bigger than most netball players - and that used to hurt.

Online safety champion NetSafe will head a new agency as the Government rolls out the second part of a plan targeting bullies on the net.