The day he died, Senior Constable Len Snee started work early, jogging past Jan Molenaar's house at dawn to conduct a final reconnaissance.

A police inspector speaking at the inquest into the Napier gun seige said he believed it would end in a suicide or "suicide by police."

A former model and sports cheerleader has been jailed for supplying methamphetamine, or P.

Narcotraficantes, or drug dealers, can buy the murder of many, and the loyalty of nearly everyone.

Customs is reviewing the way it targets rising levels of imports of the party drug mephedrone, which has been linked to deaths in Europe.

Twelve people will face drugs charges after heavily armed police raided Tauranga properties over the past four days.

Five students are accused of using an unoccupied suburban house in Auckland as the centre of a multimillion-dollar drug operation.