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Drink bans target nuisance revelry
Noisy night patrons of a student bar on Massey University's Albany campus are targets of new liquor controls for nearby suburban streets and reserves.
Noisy night patrons of a student bar on Massey University's Albany campus are targets of new liquor controls for nearby suburban streets and reserves.
Astonished police have charged a woman driver who they say blew one of New Zealand's highest recorded breath-alcohol levels.
A new study on the burden drunken rugby fans place on emergency medical services has prompted a call for an anti-binge drinking ad campaign.
On Thursday night, while Jesse Ryder lay in intensive care in Christchurch Hospital after a savage and apparently random beating that has left him fighting for his life, I drove home from work just after midnight.
In a bid to cut down unnecessary hospital admissions, five Auckland organisations have set up a temporary 'safe house' for out-of-control revellers.
The father of a 15-year-old injured in a car accident in the early hours of last Sunday has lashed out at emergency services staff, accusing them of teenage accident fatigue.
Alcohol advertising is so seamlessly blended into social media and smartphone technology that government will struggle to regulate it, a researcher says.
Having multiple sexual partners is a significant predictor of women turning to drink and drugs in later life, a new study suggests.
Zac Guildford's girlfriend hopes the experts are proved right and the rugby renegade can be okay after four weeks of treatment.
Hundreds of people were arrested and charged with alcohol-related offences during a poilce operation aimed at highlighting the implications associated with alcohol misuse in public.
Justice Minister Judith Collins has defended requiring councils to wait for a year before they can use new powers over liquor licensing, saying smaller councils could not handle it.
Whangarei police are praising the actions of family members who pulled a 10-year-old boy out of a car moments before his intoxicated mother drove off in the vehicle and crashed.
MFAT is to review its safe travel advice on the dangers of drinking arak following a coroner's findings linking the drink to the death of a former Dunedin man in Indonesia.