He was a high-flying, successful inner-city lawyer - until he destroyed his privileged life with methamphetamine abuse.

Keisha Castle-Hughes is producing a film about a subject painfully close to her heart - NZ's 'epidemic' of P abuse.

Two Mongrel Mob leaders are being paid by the taxpayers to try to turn the country's gangs away from drugs and crime.

Second-generation Mongrel Mobster Layton Te Nahu is off the drug P and back with his family, thanks to a remarkable New Zealand story that involves the Prime Minister, the Salvation Army and a retired surgeon.

There was less crime and more of it was solved in the year ended June 30, police say.

Much of Hoffman's writing is rich in symbolism and fantasy, and her latest novel, The Story Sisters, is no exception.

Organised crime is more than just guns and drugs with environmental and cyber crime also proving a lucrative business, OFCANZ says.

Two Bali Nine ringleaders have begged an Indonesian court for a second chance at life.

It's a sad day for journalism when a newspaper is pressured into stopping its reports on crime.

Police smashed their way into a Masterton house this week and held a couple at gunpoint - only to discover the man they were after moved out months ago.

A sportsman who died after using methamphetamine and cannabis during a training session has had his identity concealed by the courts.

Some shops are selling fake urine and detox kits to help people beat workplace drugs tests.

Police doing post-quake patrols today came across a man mixing up chemicals to make methamphetamine.