A fifteen-year-old schoolgirl tried to fend off the group of teenagers who viciously bashed a South Auckland police officer.

The teenager who was yesterday unmasked as Liberty Templeman's murderer has received death threats on the internet.

An off-duty police officer seriously assaulted yesterday afternoon is now in a critical but stable condition in hospital.

Six school children are taken to hospital after a bus and another vehicle collided in the Auckland suburb of Mt Eden today.

South Australian Attorney-General Michael Atkinson is single-handedly stopping Australia from introducing an R18 classification for video games - effectively banning adult games.

A 15-year-old college boy was found dead by his schoolmates in his boarding house this morning.

A 13-year-old Brisbane schoolboy has been remanded in custody over the stabbing death of a fellow student.

A young woman who captured the hearts of her schoolmates and community has lost her fight with cancer. Sally Ainley, 20, died early on Saturday after battling her illness for nearly three years.

The teen convicted of helping a friend take his life wants to meet his dead mate's mother to apologise.

A 17 year-old has been sentenced to eight months home detention after admitting his part in a friend's suicide.

A new survey of 520 NZ companies finds 67 per cent have no policies to regulate staff use of social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter.

More details of the final movements of slain schoolgirl Liberty Templeman have emerged at the trial of the teenager accused of killing her.

The jury at the trial of the teenager accused of murdering Liberty Templeman has just left the scene where her body was found.

Kevin Rudd would like to see the drinking age in Australia raised from 18 to 21 years.

A 2-year-old boy sparked a police callout after locking himself in his mother's car with the keys for nearly two hours.

Scientists have found that people who inherit two copies of a particular DNA variant show the biological signs of being about eight years "older" than people of the same age who carry neither genetic variant.