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.

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

Public concern over "apero geants", or giant open-air drinks parties, is growing after the horrific death of a student in France.

Today's teens are telling the same fibs their parents told to cover their boozing, but are drinking high-potency "lolly" drinks with the sole aim of getting "trashed".

Hundreds of students gathered to farewell their 16-year-old mate "Webby", who died after binge-drinking vodka at the weekend.

Students at an East Auckland college are planning an after-ball party at a secret location this weekend, despite their principal's disapproval.

The parents of a King's College boarder who died after binge-drinking vodka want people to learn from the tragedy and don't blame anybody.

Police have told schools to let parents know that no excuses will be accepted if people are caught supplying alcohol to under-18s at after-ball parties.

nzherald.co.nz readers slam NZ's drinking culture during a heated debate on youth drinking, after the death of schoolboy James Webster.

ALAC recommends that parents hold off on serving alcohol to young people for as long as they can.

Bar patrons took a drunk man outside because they thought he was about to vomit, not realising he was choking on a pie, the coroner has found.

The King's College mother who has challenged the Govt to act on alcohol issues says it is wrong to isolate the problem on the purchase age.

A dreadful feeling came over Penny Webster when she saw the police car pull up outside her Thames home.

Changing the legal age for purchasing alcohol would not have saved the life of a boy who drank himself to death at the weekend, the PM says.

What a doctor and mother of a King's College student wrote to fellow school parent John Key after the death of 16-year-old James Webster.

A tally of the harm alcohol causes to young people in New Zealand, as detailed in last month's Law Commission's report.

A doctor and King's College mother has written to fellow school parent John Key to demand action over NZ's youth drinking culture.

It was a typical teenage white lie - he was going to study with a friend.

Police are shocked that a woman whose daughter was seriously injured by a drunk driver last year was herself caught driving while over the limit.

A new study has found that alcohol is to blame for most suicide attempts involving overdosing.

Almost all of Auckland's licensed karaoke bars breach liquor laws in their first year.