A new road safety campaign is appealing to young male drivers to 'slow down and stay in mantrol', in an attempt to reduce NZ's road toll.

A 16-year-old girl has claimed discrimination after her private Australian school banned her lesbian partner from the ball.

The families and friends of two teenage best friends killed two weeks apart are shattered by their deaths.

A fifth birthday party finished with a gang brawl and eight arrests in Hastings last night.

Te reo Maori is finding a home in one of the country’s most prestigious schools, with King's College making it a compulsory subject for all Year Nine students.

Unemployment numbers just released show NZ's jobless rate has fallen from 6.9 per cent to 6.4 per cent - better than many were expecting.

The father of a schoolgirl sent to South Africa after she was bullied at Howick College says the school is in denial if it thinks hers is an isolated case.

Children trick or treating in South Auckland - some younger than 10 - were last night threatening people who did not give them sweets.

Groundbreaking cellphone technology has been launched in a bid to stop teenagers being harassed by text bullies. The new service allows cellphone users to blacklist up to 20 numbers.

Fabulously old-fashioned, galas are still an important date on the school calendar, writes Gill South.

A student at a top Auckland school has been arrested after stabbing another teenager during a public fight organised online.

Inside the first of the Govt's new boot camps for serious repeat youth offenders.

A judge has paid tribute to the bravery of a bar manager and a patron who foiled the armed robbery of a Christchurch bar.