New Zealand's horse racing industry is ramping up its $50,000-a-year random drug testing of jockeys.

A champion New Zealand boxer has been sentenced to more than two years' imprisonment for manufacturing methamphetamine.

A former senior police officer - on trial over allegations of stealing and dealing in drugs - has pleaded guilty on two charges this morning.

A senior drug crime detective gamed the police drug storage system and cut one big methamphetamine seizure with table salt to disguise his theft, the High Court was told.

A cousin of Winston Churchill has died, leaving the son he once described as a "black sheep" to inherit one of Britain's most prestigious aristocratic titles.

Police Commissioner Mike Bush says all staff “feel betrayed” by their former colleague Peter Pakau, who yesterday pleaded guilty to 14 charges.

West Auckland policeman Peter Pakau has today pleaded guilty to 14 charges relating to methamphetamine, accepting bribes, corruption and accessing the police computer.

An inmate with more than 100 convictions was taken to North Shore Hospital after allegedly hiding drugs and a mobile phone in his rectum.

More than 250kg of drugs was swapped with boxes of cornstarch inside an Auckland International Airport cargo zone controlled by Customs.

The fact that pharmaceuticals could be causing more overdose deaths than illegal substances means that it's possible for any one of us to encounter someone having an overdose.

Perhaps because of the impending election, public discussion of our cannabis laws has been gaining momentum.

A simple coat of nail polish could soon prevent Kiwi women from falling victim to date rape.

She lost her mother to a heroin overdose as a vulnerable teenager, her sister Peaches to the same tragedy, and has fought her own battles with alcohol and drugs.

A man who ran a meth ring from his mother's house while he was on home detention will now serve out a new sentence behind bars.

A previously law-abiding mother has been jailed for faking the signature of the chief executive at one of New Zealand's biggest insurance firms.

An international drug importer has had five years tacked onto his prison term after importing huge quantities of ecstasy into the country.

When Antoine Dixon severed ex-girlfriend Simonne Butler's hands with a samurai sword, it was "just one more day" in a life of sex, drugs and violence.

A Spanish drug trafficker has given birth while in custody after attempting to smuggle up to half a million dollars worth of cocaine into New Zealand.

A champion NZ boxer will face trial in the High Court on drugs charges and participation in a criminal group.

A 20-year-old Brazilian drug mule lured by the promise of cash and sight-seeing in New Zealand will instead spend five years behind bars.

A former Air New Zealand flight attendant has reportedly been charged with importing methamphetamine.

A South African woman who has been accused of importing heroin with a street value of $1.2 million has had a hospital bedside court hearing.

An international drug kingpin who fled NZ while on bail has been convicted of smuggling huge shipments of Ecstasy to an Auckland godfather of crime.

A New Zealand woman seeking leniency on drugs charges has given a tearful apology to a Bali court, which heard she has a history of depression and heroin use.

New Zealand criminals are taking inspiration from the hit TV series Breaking Bad by using campervans to cook crystal methamphetamine.

A New Zealand woman has been charged with importing five kilograms of crystal meth into Sydney hidden inside machinery parts.

Oz pensioners struggling to make ends meet are selling their prescription medication to junkies and drug dealers. Some painkillers are fetching up to A$4000 a box.

Smoking cannabis before the age of 15 could lead to insomnia later in life, a new study has found.