If waking up to find your old tweets dredged up and splashed on the front page of a Sunday newspaper wasn't enough of a rude awakening for Paris Brown, the ordeal had only just begun.

McDonald's and Restaurant Brands have joined other retail giants who have decided against paying 16 to 19-year-olds the new youth wage.

A 3-month-old baby was the youngest of 17 children found by police living in unsafe drug houses during the annual cannabis blitz.

The benefit of an after-school job is far, far greater than the cash it gives teens, writes Donna McIntyre.

Rotorua 18-year-old Tristan Barker, who has a controversial web presence and is described as an internet troll, has admitted assaulting an Australian television reporter.

Student loan holders will pay $11 more a week from today as the Government ramps up its repayment scheme.

Employers will be able to pay 16-to-19-year-olds in new jobs $11 an hour after a controversial bill was passed into law by one vote.

Name suppression has expired for the Rotorua 18-year-old accused of assaulting an Australian TV reporter.

Manu "The Beast" Vatuvei proved to be a big hit with a group of youngsters at Robertson Road School, in Mangere.

A decision to ban use of a $2.1 million West Auckland sports field on summer Sundays and to limit inter-club and inter-school games to one night a week during week days is "over the top", say three Parrs Park neighbours.

Another Rotorua man has avoided jail for his part in a gang brawl outside a child's first birthday party in Koutu.

The temperature in Parliament is sure to rocket when the law "reinstating" youth rates is debated this week.

New figures show there are more than 2000 children in New Zealand whose fathers are younger than 20.

Social networks will have to make changes if they are to survive as fickle young users look for something new, writes David Glance.

More than 350 young people have signed on as building apprentices since a $2000 bonus became available last Wednesday for the first 10,000 apprentices who sign up.

The family of an Auckland girl tormented by bullies, including one who threatened her with an axe, have received a payout and an admission the school failed her.

Seeing her long curly hair being chopped off was almost a bit much for 12-year-old Gemma Singleton.

Are the days of the Harlem Shake, the craze that has swept the web, coming to an end?

A Parliamentary committee has recommended a starting wage for youth be passed into law.

Every Monday night, Chance Morgan watches Piha Rescue - it's one of her favourite television shows - so she knew the lifeguards before meeting them on school camp.

A communication breakdown between police and Child Youth and Family meant a teen was on the run for three months before crashing and dying in a stolen car.

At 2.2m, Bronx native "Mighty Joe" Dorsett-Jeffreys often gets the jump on his opponents in the New York streetball circuit.