Plans have been scrapped for a King's College after-ball where parents were going to buy their children alcohol.

Parents of King's College students have devised a plan to allow alcohol at their children's after-ball party - but the school says it is keeping right out of the matter.

A man has been formally charged after allegedly fighting his partner for car keys on a night of drinking before driving and killing a solo mother.

Oscar-nominated actress Keisha Castle-Hughes has been praised for her decision to kick her drinking habit.

After-ball committees from 15 schools in Auckland have cancelled plans to hold functions in which parents provide alcohol to teenagers.

An events firm embroiled in police crackdowns on after-balls says it doesn't supply alcohol to minors - it just works with parents committees.

NZers favour reducing the amount drivers can legally drink before getting behind the wheel, with 70 per cent supporting a limit of 50mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood, a survey finds.

Thousands of young people have gone online to mock and protest the police's crackdown on high school after-ball parties.

Parents of students at a top Catholic girls' school are organising an after-ball party with alcohol - despite police warnings.

Manukau's liquor licensing agency is drawing up a list of school ball dates, and will send inspectors to follow buses to after-ball parties.

A party consultant is telling high school students how they can get away with taking booze to after-ball parties.

A high school after-ball party with a van-load of alcohol was busted by police and liquor licensing inspectors in an early morning raid today.