A 3-week-old baby and a 1-year-old were taken by Child Youth and Family after their father was found high on glue while looking after them, police say.

An Auckland grandmother opened her suitcase four years after her last overseas trip to discover $50,000 worth of amphetamine stashed in a side pocket.

Syria has witnessed a large rise in the use and manufacture of amphetamines as fighters on both sides of its civil war use the drugs for stamina in battle.

A 72-year-old American man appeared in an Auckland court today for allegedly importing millions of dollars worth of methamphetamine into New Zealand.

As legalisation of marijuana spreads, Chinese companies have the patents ready to exploit new markets.

Another major government information technology project is experiencing rising costs and delays and is yet to deliver on promised intelligence technology.

A Facebook page which alerts members to police checkpoints is encouraging drunk drivers to take their chances with all of our lives, police say.

Scotland Yard looking at laying drugs charges against chef and whether to go after suppliers.

Bradley Cooper has admitted his addictions "hindered" his work.

Revelations about Nigella Lawson's drug use have not deterred New Zealand's most trusted company from reflecting fondly on its association with her this year.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford may have offered $5,000 and a car to suspected drug dealers in exchange for a video that appears to show him smoking crack, court documents show.

A Waihi methamphetamine cook sentenced to a 17-year prison term has had $1.6 million worth of his ill-gotten assets forfeited to the Crown.

A drug-smuggling American billionaire nabbed at Auckland Airport with cannabis in his luggage and more aboard his luxury vessel has died at his home in the US.

The model for dealing with the problem has not reduced demand or supply, so we should go way of some US states, writes Alexander Gillespie.

Drug-detecting dogs are running through the hallways, reception areas and carparks of Parnell's The Mirage apartments.

More than $2 million of methamphetamine and cash has been seized and five people arrested after a joint operation between Wellington police and NZ Customs.

A Nigerian football player accused of being a cocaine smuggling boss says money wired to him through Western Union were for football transfers.

Lithuanian national Rokas Karpavicius has been found guilty of importing an LSD-laden Harry Potter book into New Zealand and money laundering

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admitted Wednesday that he has smoked a lot of marijuana.

Almost half of firms surveyed by a leading employers' group have reported sacking staff for drug use.

A new ad campaign is targeting "sensible stoners" who falsely believe smoking cannabis makes them more focused behind the wheel.

Two British women have been detained in Peru after allegedly being caught trying to fly out of Lima airport with cocaine worth up to £1.5 million ($2.9 million).

Residents and shopkeepers in Greenmeadows, Hawkes Bay, have banded together to swiftly shut down a new store selling synthetic cannabis.

A drug kingpin has been jailed for at least five years for masterminding a "sophisticated" multi-million dollar drug importation business.

When Brett Heginbotham found himself in a police cell, being told he had just robbed a dairy at gunpoint, he knew his addiction to legal highs had reached its lowest ebb.

The minister overseeing new restrictions on legal highs has slammed "smarter than the law" rogue traders who have been caught out trying to sell products illegally.

Hundreds of protesters rallied around New Zealand today opposing a law that allows testing of party pills on animals.

Thousands of people are visiting a Facebook page that details where police checkpoints and hidden speed cameras are located nationwide.