A woman's discovery that a friend had sexually violated and raped her with her husband while she was drugged was the ultimate betrayal.

A student had a knife held to his throat by a man who threatened to cut off his fingers and kill him if he didn't give him $100 to buy P.

An airline pilot has been grounded and is under investigation after allegations of alcohol and drug abuse, including the suspected supply of an illegal substance to a female cabin attendant.

The brother of the man who killed liquor store owner Navtej Singh has been sentenced over an aggravated robbery of a tinnie house a day before the fatal shooting.

A Customs broker has been charged with helping smuggle drugs worth up to $17 million.

Australia faces a major crackdown on drugs, gangs and street crime.

The owner of a $2m property seized by police after he allegedly shifted millions of dollars in drug money overseas has left the country before detectives could press charges.

Police today seized millions of dollars of cash and assets in a raid on a financial firm linked to an organised crime ring.

An ex-pharmacist told court he'd been asked by police to keep selling cold medicine to "pill shoppers" to help their surveillance operation.

A man who allegedly drugged and raped a woman escort after he was given electronic bail has been remanded in custody to reappear next month.

Loud explosions could be heard before police battered down the door of a Dunedin flat during an armed standoff today, a witness says.

Police have seized $5 million worth of methamphetamine during a bust targeting Asian organised crime in Auckland this morning.