Police are investigating claims parents have organised after-school fights between Northland teenagers to settle playground disputes.

If London and other traditional destinations for the OE-brigade are back in business, corporates here could be hit with huge attrition rates.

Breastfeeding advocates are outraged at a magazine's "commandment".

Ash Austin, 17, was driving a car that left the road and fatally struck Nayan Woods, 4, on Friday evening.

King's College boarder Michael Treffers died a day after suffering severe head injuries when he fell from the Market Rd overbridge.

Police have named one of two young boys killed in separate crashes within minutes of each other late yesterday afternoon.

Parents of a student at Rangitoto College, which cancelled its school balls this year because of a boozy party after last year's, are organising two private balls.

A woman holding a 7-week-old baby rushed to the defence of a senior citizen who was being beaten by a man armed with a softball bat.

The Govt's decision to remove recognition for fully qualified centres 'dumbs down' the sector, early childhood educators say.

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