An airline pilot has been grounded and is under investigation after allegations of alcohol and drug abuse, including the suspected supply of an illegal substance to a female cabin attendant.

The brother of the man who killed liquor store owner Navtej Singh has been sentenced over an aggravated robbery of a tinnie house a day before the fatal shooting.

An ESR report that shows 48 per cent of road deaths over five years involved drugs or alcohol is a 'wake up call'.

A Customs broker has been charged with helping smuggle drugs worth up to $17 million.

Black Power looks set to buy back a confiscated stronghold after the Government and Auckland City Council ruled out buying the property to keep it away from the gang.

The owner of a $2m property seized by police after he allegedly shifted millions of dollars in drug money overseas has left the country before detectives could press charges.

An ex-pharmacist told court he'd been asked by police to keep selling cold medicine to "pill shoppers" to help their surveillance operation.

A man who allegedly drugged and raped a woman escort after he was given electronic bail has been remanded in custody to reappear next month.

Loud explosions could be heard before police battered down the door of a Dunedin flat during an armed standoff today, a witness says.

Police have seized $5 million worth of methamphetamine during a bust targeting Asian organised crime in Auckland this morning.

Bay of Plenty police made 12 arrests in raids on methamphetamine labs today, and found three children living at one of the meth houses.