A fifth birthday party finished with a gang brawl and eight arrests in Hastings last night.

People being investigated by police over serious fraud-related offences or gang crimes will no longer have the right to remain silent, under a Govt bill.

Two men who escaped from the Manukau District Court about 10am yesterday are dangerous and not to be approached by members of the public, police say.

The Hells Angels are suing a luxury fashion house.

The lawyer who represented the head of the "Mr Asia" drug syndicate has been awarded $140,000 in a defamation case.

The identity of the man accused of bludgeoning gangland murderer Carl Williams to death has been revealed.

Were prison guards playing a game of indoor cricket when Victorian gangland hitman Carl Williams was bashed to death?

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.

Slum tours can improve locals' lives, writes Karen Phelps.

A 70-year-old pharmacist jailed this week for his role in supplying gangs with pseudoephedrine still believes he was part of an undercover police operation.