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

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.

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

Half of New Zealanders support the reintroduction of corporal punishment in schools, according to a national survey of 1000 people.

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".

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

Family and friends have farewelled a 16-year-old Auckland student who died after drinking a bottle of vodka last weekend.

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.

A takeaway shop owner was stabbed at least eight times for just $200 by four youths who arrived and fled on bicycles.

A boy who stabbed his teacher four times with a knife had been bullied by other pupils, his family say.

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

A bus passenger was taken to hospital after she was hit in the head by an object thrown through the bus window.

"Where is the zapper?" is as constant a question in our house as "where are your shoes?"

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.

Charles and Penny Webster, parents of King's College student James Webster, said they wanted people to learn from their son's death.

The students of Te Puke High School are receiving ongoing support after one of their peers stabbed a maths teacher during class yesterday.

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.

The number of young people aged 20 to 24 with no income almost trebled between 1996 and 2006, according to new figures.

Principals say teachers need the power to search students as schools become increasingly violent.