A former Mana Party candidate and Green Party member has appeared in the Rotorua District Court charged with assaulting a woman and possession of cannabis.

A law change to ban schools from drug testing students will "seriously dent'' the ability of teachers to stop drugs entering the school gates, the principals' union says.

A multi-millionaire businessman granted New Zealand citizenship in controversial circumstances was seen by police "singing and drinking" with an underworld crime boss.

A man arrested for carrying drug utensils surprised police by vomiting up a snaplock bag of white powder, thought to be $7000 worth of methamphetamine.

Items used to manufacture methamphetamine were found inside a rubbish bin kept in a wardrobe in a home where two children were living, a court has been told.

Grant "Grunty" Wyllie was well-known and liked in Whitianga as a good guy whose passion was pig hunting. Or so his friends thought.

K2 is the most toxic and harmful of the synthetic cannabis products he has witnessed in patients, an emergency department specialist says.

An African drug dealer who entered a sham marriage within weeks of arriving in New Zealand to help him get residency is to be deported.

A New Zealander will face criminal charges and a possible lengthy jail sentence after being caught with three cannabis joints in the Philippines.

Police have arrested three people after a "cocktail of danger" was uncovered in containers and caravans in rural Waikato last week.

Two cocaine couriers have been sentenced to jail after police found over $750,000 worth of the class A drug in a hidden suitcase.

Sports writer Dan Coyle tells Phil Taylor about his long battle to cut through the PR myths surrounding Lance Armstrong and organised doping in cycling.

A gang leader claimed his fleet of fast cars was partially paid for by his success as a professional gigolo rather than his drug enterprise.

A Dunedin man who was caught huffing from a stolen LPG bottle has been labelled 'stupid' by police.