A Facebook page has been set up for children to post videos of schoolyard fights and brag about their violence. Police have contacted the site to have the page taken down.

Students caught "sexting" or cyber-bullying at school will be asked to reveal the offending content or face having their device seized and given to police.

New Zealand's bullying problem may be going unchecked because schools do not want to share their problems nationwide.

A South African couple's first Christmas in New Zealand has been tarnished after an online racist attack and death threats were made against their teen son.

The apology from State Services boss Iain Rennie to the complainant at the centre of the Roger Sutton affair and public servants in general has been welcomed by his minister, Paula Bennett - but she has indicated another slip-up will cost him his job.

Two police recruits have been stood down from police college after a number of alleged bullying incidents.

Private school King's College says students implicated in a bullying incident will be suspended for the rest of the school year.

Workplace bullying affects people physically and mentally and it can disrupt workplaces and reduce productivity. Here are 10 tips to deal with workplace bullying.

A schoolgirl who was bullied for her singing from the age of 6 has produced an anti-bullying kit for schools that includes a message of forgiveness for the bullies.

The issues of cyber bullying and bullying in schools get a lot of attention, but bullying in the workplace flies under the radar.

A chef who walked off the job after a heated morning in which she allegedly threw a pan and reduced a staff member to tears has failed in her bid to claim more pay.

It's always great to see someone standing up to a bully. That Hastings schoolboy Lucan Battison also won the confrontation with his St John's College principal is the icing on the cake.

When I was growing up, bullying at school was a fact of life, almost a rite of passage. If you complained about it, you were told to toughen up, writes Peter Hughes.

Schools are increasingly putting students under closed-circuit television surveillance to cut bullying.

International Pink Shirt Day is today. The occasion is an inspiring example of two boys taking responsibility for the realisation of human dignity and rights in their own small town.

Nasty messages threatening and abusing MasterChef finalists Jaimie Stodler and Bec Stanley were posted on a TVNZ Facebook page and visible to the public this week.

His T-shirt is recognisable in most Rotorua schools but Warren Tumarae wants people to know that underneath there's a fierce passion to stop bullying.

New Zealand internet sensation Jamie Curry and charismatic Kiwi The Mad Butcher are behind two anti-bullying campaigns aimed at teens.

District jcourt udges have warned the Govt against allowing cyber-bullying victims to take their complaints directly to court, saying that they could be flooded by "meritless" cases.

Microsoft is opposing a proposal to allow cyberbullying victims to take complaints to court, saying it would set a different standard for online abuse in New Zealand .

Vodafone has warned the Government that its cyber-bullying laws are a "sledgehammer" that could require it to remove entire websites in response to complaints.

The woman who had an affair with Auckland Mayor Len Brown has spoken in support of cyber-bullying laws and that she was being stalked on social media.

Never has the downside of social media been more apparent than over the past week, after TV presenter Charlotte Dawson was found dead in her apartment.

Soon after I started on Newstalk ZB many years ago, Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash. There was an outpouring of grief; distraught callers talked of nothing else for days, writes Kerre McIvor.

Tens of thousands of people have signed up to "Charlotte's Law", a petition calling on the Australian Government to introduce tougher cyber-bullying laws.