A pupil from King's College in Auckland has been admitted to hospital, where he remains in a critical condition.

Manukau's liquor licensing agency is drawing up a list of school ball dates, and will send inspectors to follow buses to after-ball parties.

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.

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".

Hundreds of students gathered to farewell their 16-year-old mate "Webby", who died after binge-drinking vodka at the weekend.

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.

nzherald.co.nz readers slam NZ's drinking culture during a heated debate on youth drinking, after the death of schoolboy James Webster.