Last Labour Weekend one person was killed on the roads - 16-year-old Ricky Pettigrew. Today, his family have a message for other drivers, especially young people.

Shortland Street you did it well. The writers, crew and cast - especially 15-year-old actor KJ Apa - and the advisers from the Mental Health Foundation all deserve enormous bouquets.

A 12-year-old nicknamed "little samurai" has raised nearly $600 for the Mental Health Foundation after a karate teacher who inspired him committed suicide earlier this year.

New Zealand Schools kick off their short campaign today in Porirua.

The best on offer these school holidays, chosen by Susan Edmunds.

Children as young as 13 are taking suggestive selfies and posting them online, in a trend linked to nude celeb photos.

More than 300 high school students were absent across three schools during a random check - and police are concerned truants could be contributing to local crime.

The killer of teenager Christie Marceau will finish his prison sentence next month, but remain in a forensic mental health facility - possibly for the rest of his life.

An angry father says an energy drink company handed out its product to his 11-year-old son and other children he believed were as young as 8 at a skate park.

The teens who assaulted Auckland schoolboy Stephen Dudley might have been sentenced but for the dead boy's family "it's certainly not over".

The Mental Health Foundation has received an unprecedented number of calls following the death of comedian Robin Williams.

Mountaineer Graeme Dingle's youth charity is branching out from its original outdoors focus to try to connect school-leavers with employers and jobs.

A further 3500 young people on welfare could have their spending tightly controlled by an adult supervisor if National is re-elected.

The Government is to extend its control of spending by young beneficiaries to all teen parents and many 18 and 19-year-olds.

Families do best when everyone is getting plenty of sleep. Even if just one member of a family is not sleeping well, the whole household can be affected.

The frustration of Stephen Dudley's family boiled over in court this morning when the judge decided not to convict a teen who assaulted the schoolboy.

Don't be fooled by Holly White's reserved, quiet nature. Put her on a bike and she becomes a beast.

Students at an Auckland high school had a first-hand look at life in the trenches this week.

A group of primary school children have solved a problem that our biggest bank couldn't solve - finding a way to let disabled people into its downtown Auckland branch.

The Labour Party is promising to put $17 million into a new agency to help people on to the right career path.

Pinepine Savage holds proof in her own life that it is possible to turn around a town that everyone had written off.

Technology has become so ingrained in family life that it’s even started changing the way children speak.

The brains of premature babies can perform almost as well as those born at full-term by the time they're teenagers, depending on the environment the child grows up in, an Australian study shows.

If Peter Larsen's play Albert Black is written as eloquently as he describes it, it'll be a stunner.

'Good. Yeah. Nah. Dunno. Good. Sorta. Nah. Yeah. Okay. Whatever. See ya."