A new wave of legal party pills has hit Whangarei secondary schools, with two parents asked to take their teens home after they arrived for class high.

A pilot fighting to get his job back after being sacked amid allegations of alcohol and drug abuse worked for Pacific Blue.

A man who spent three years infiltrating Auckland's crime networks has uncovered a drug trade on a staggering scale.

A $465,000 house has been seized from a commercial cannabis grower as punishment instead of an 18-month prison sentence.

The War on Drugs makes the Afghan campaign seem like a blitzkrieg akin to 1967 when Israel cleaned up Egypt, Syria and Jordan in six days and rested on the seventh.

Police displayed weapons and drugs, including two "unusually large" rocks of crystal meth, from a bust on a Coromandel P lab.

Police this morning busted a P-lab in Auckland, a day after nationwide raids which netted 140g of the drug, as well as guns and a crossbow.

Police say some major players "are now out of the drug industry" after a nationwide P bust that was six months in the making.

Police have uncovered a P lab in the Auckland suburb of Ponsonby.

A New Zealander with a long list of criminal offending has been deported from Australia after losing an appeal.

Dealers are competing "like Pepsi and Coke" to sell ecstasy, says the NZ Drug Foundation, and users are rating their experiences on the web.

A North Shore 18-year-old is lucky to be alive after falling multiple storeys from a carpark building during a night of drinking and taking Ecstasy.

A drug dealing 12-year-old took a kilogram of cannabis to sell to his mates at an intermediate school.

Air NZ is unhappy about the suppression of the name and employer of an airline pilot fighting to keep his job after he was sacked amid allegations of alcohol and drug abuse.