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<i>Jim Hopkins:</i> Red alert - day of distress for ginger-tressed

Air pistol and cannabis found in college student's backpack

Parents 'organised fights' to settle playground rows

Police are investigating claims parents have organised after-school fights between Northland teenagers to settle playground disputes.

<i>Fiona Hughes</i>: The highly-valued 'nana' touch can't be taught in a degree

Students on underage drinking and after-balls

Teacher censured for sex with student

Big OE back on the menu

If London and other traditional destinations for the OE-brigade are back in business, corporates here could be hit with huge attrition rates.

Magazine slammed for ordering breastfeeding mums to toilet

Breastfeeding advocates are outraged at a magazine's "commandment".

Child, 4, killed after boy-racer loses control

Police have named one of two young boys killed in separate crashes within minutes of each other late yesterday afternoon.

<i>Editorial</i>: After-ball blitz a welcome case of proactive policing

Parents get into the party spirit

Parents of a student at Rangitoto College, which cancelled its school balls this year because of a boozy party after last year's, are organising two private balls.

Together in grief

Help at hand in the aftermath

Confiscated alcohol still missing, say students

The student organisers of an after-ball where police raided a van-load of alcohol say they do not know what happened to the booze.

Early cannabis use stifles academic success - study

Mother holding baby stops softball-bat attack

A woman holding a 7-week-old baby rushed to the defence of a senior citizen who was being beaten by a man armed with a softball bat.