I can still remember the freedom that came with being given my first bike.

What began as four schools coming together each year to celebrate cultural difference - performing on a makeshift stage on the school grounds.

First there was planking, then Gangnam Style, now ... derp-face.

A drunk teenager's deadly eight-storey fall from a Wellington apartment building has prompted a warning for suburban youths to be aware of the risks of high-rise buildings.

A 12-year-old boy who raped his seven-year-old sister after watching porn online has walked free after a judge ruled he is not a danger to society.

The high school that excluded an child with Asperger's Syndrome after a dispute with a teacher over a skateboard says it is disappointed a judge has quashed its decision.

The parents of a seven-year-old transgender boy are in discussions with an independent film maker to chart the next decade of their child's life as he undergoes medical changes.

The controversial Neknomination craze has reportedly led to the death of another young British man, after a rugby player mixed two pints of gin with teabags and said to the camera: "This is how you drink."

Parents are using potentially dangerous medications to get hyped up kids to sleep at night.

Don’t be tempted by teen slang and just be your age, advises Sharon Stephenson.

Danielle Wright meets young entrepreneurs learning business lessons early.

A 16-year-old schoolboy has today admitted assaulting Auckland teen Stephen Dudley on the day a manslaughter trial over the teen's death was to begin.

'We told him no, it's pretty much suicide.' A young dad ended up in hospital after downing an entire bottle of absinthe in the 'neknominate' booze craze.

School starts across most of Australia this week, so parents and carers are breaking out the lunch boxes once again.

Benjamin Gaze started at Auckland Grammar School this week, 132 years after his great-great-grandfather faced the same nerve-racking initiation.

North Shore teenager Kate Stewart has spent hours studying the famous names engraved on the Tauranga Cup.

Child Youth and Family are investigating a video in which a 6-year-old boy is seen drinking from a beer bottle as part of a Neknominate dare.

A drinking game played through social media which has caught on in NZ has been labelled "incredibly foolish" and "very, very harmful" by an alcohol-harm advocacy group.

Three people have been charged with giving alcohol to a 9-year-old who was filmed, apparently drunk, at a Hamilton skatepark.

The parents or guardians of young people before the courts could have bail conditions imposed on them as well as their children, under a private members' bill.

A video of a drunk boy stumbling and slurring at a Hamilton skate park has been reposted to YouTube despite an earlier attempt by police to have Google remove it.

Words can hardly express the harm inflicted on a 9-year-old boy in Hamilton this week by someone who gave him enough alcohol to get very drunk.

Oh the shame of reading the Daily Mail online and seeing two stories from New Zealand featuring prominently.

A violent daylight attack in a small Otago town has resulted in three arrests and an appeal for information about two travellers who police hold concerns for.

Three people have been charged with giving alcohol to a 9-year-old who was filmed, apparently drunk, at a Hamilton skatepark.

A video of an apparently drunk Hamilton boy has been removed from YouTube - but not before more than half a million people watched the uncensored footage.

The mother of a Hamilton boy filmed celebrating his ninth birthday drinking at a skatepark says she was shocked and angry to discover he'd been consuming alcohol.