Sniffer dogs are being brought into schools amid growing concern about the escalating number of children found in possession of drugs.

A visitor to a women's prison has been arrested after staff found more than $20,000 and drugs worth $10,000 in his car.

One of only two Maori-based residential centres for youth faces closure by April.

Andre Agassi says being bullied into doing something he didn't like saw him change into a P-user.

Members of the Tribesmen gang have been targeted in the first ever bust by the Organised and Financial Crime Agency today.

An Auckland Grammar student alleged to have imported drugs into NZ is part of a growing and alarming trend, police say.

The drug P is a dangerously destructive substance that's wrecking lives, wrecking families, fuelling crime and allowing gangs to flourish.

The Vehicle Confiscation and Seizure Bill gives courts the power to send cars owned by repeat offenders to the crusher.

The Govt has allowed the banning of cars "cruising" down certain streets as a raft of its hardline measures today start becoming law.

The former partner of deceased Napier gunman Jan Molenaar has told a court he bullied her into selling cannabis.