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Teach kids to keep career doors open

Culture of celebrity hurting teens

Researchers say young people are being too much influenced by media focused on "celebrity" behaviour.

Special day for socking it to the nation

Young cop faces probe over bar ID claim

Police are investigating claims that an off-duty officer used his official ID to allow drinkers who may have been under-age into a bar for his girlfriend's 21st.

Sharples setting up Maori Youth Council

Circumcision deaths rise

Knife incident outside Hamilton school

Teen charged with killing seal

Woman admits profiting from under-age sex workers

Plain packs for cigarettes turn off teens

Wiping virtually all branding off cigarette and tobacco packets could prove crucial in turning teens off smoking, a NZ study indicates.

Facebook threat charge

Breath-testing before school rugby angers old boys

Police refused seven people entry after breath-testing visitors as they came through the gates to view one of New Zealand's oldest school rugby fixtures.

NZ students study - and party - more than Aussies

New research has found Kiwi university students party more than their Aussie counterparts, but they also manage to fit in more study.

Anti-gang 'mosquito' device should be banned - report

Students treated at after-ball after downing energy drinks

Students at the St Kentigern College after-ball party were treated by paramedics after becoming ill from drinking large quantities of Red Bull.

Parents give up after-ball plan

Drivers trap drunk boss

Top brains only - varsities cut class sizes

Places at many popular universities will be restricted next year to students who gain top marks at high school.