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Evicted: State house tenant with $250,000 cars

A sickness beneficiary acquitted of money laundering and methamphetamine charges this week after a lengthy trial has been evicted from his taxpayer-subsidised state home.

Mum jailed for ignoring daughters' abuse

Six arrested in drug operation

Gwynne Dyer: Mexico, just say no to America's war on drugs

Mother tells of role in prison run drug ring

A middle-aged mother has admitted her role in an alleged methamphetamine ring run by prison inmates.

P lab gang's Nazi code revealed in wire-taps

Nazi catchphrases were among some of the coded conversations that convicted an underworld heavyweight.

Gang member spotted in court and arrested

A gang member believed to be armed and using methamphetamine has been arrested in Huntly, north of Hamilton.

Boy, 14, caught trying to bring cannabis into prison

Prison authorities have caught out a 14-year-old boy who tried to take cannabis hidden in his shoe into Hawke's Bay Regional Prison.

My life began to fall apart, says user of legal high

Police charge man after fatal P-lab explosion

Officer cadets admit drug-sale plan

Whoopi Goldberg stoned before Oscar win

Whoopi Goldberg smoked cannabis before accepting her Oscar in 1991.

Man killed in P-lab explosion

A man died in an explosion at a P-lab in a house south of Auckland last night, with neighbours saying "everyone knows" the house was used to cook methamphetamine. Children did not go near it "for that reason", one man said. It was only a

Meth-dealing mum jailed for more than two years

Gang men in $1m P seizure named

Meth mules get nine years

Two smugglers have been have been jailed after trying to bring almost 1kg of methamphetamine into New Zealand by swallowing it.

More than 60 arrests after $45m cannabis haul

A two-week cannabis operation in the Hawke's Bay has resulted in the seizure of about $45 million worth of cannabis plants and more than 60 arrests.

Police op nets $40 million in cannabis