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.

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.

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.

An ESR report that shows 48 per cent of road deaths over five years involved drugs or alcohol is a 'wake up call'.

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.

Black Power looks set to buy back a confiscated stronghold after the Government and Auckland City Council ruled out buying the property to keep it away from the gang.

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.