It is a mystery why these annual events have not been replaced by something more befitting the modern age rather than the epoch of Jane Austen.

Mandatory closing times is not necessarily the answer to society's drinking problems, says Don Kavanagh.

It is in the natural order of things for every generation of parents to lament that their children behave more badly than they did when they were growing up.

My 22-year-old daughter will graduate from law school this year.

After-ball parties are being planned for several schools by a company that approached students on the internet.

We asked Labour's Jacinda Ardern and National's Nikki Kaye: Should the drinking age be raised?

Booze, speed and driving without a licence - this combination appeared to be behind last night's death of a young man racing to the beach to watch the sunset.

John Wilson doesn't know how many times he has told families of tragedies in the middle of the night - and he wasn't prepared to hear the news himself.