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Accused killer called bold and calculating
A fugitive from the law showed exceptionally violent, confident and calculating behaviour.
Judge gets tough on violence
A senior judge has vowed to crack down on a violent crime wave, which he says is sometimes "little more than sheer sadism".
Fifty arrested in major drug bust
Over 50 people in the lower North Island face a combined 200 charges following a police operation targeting drug offending.
Drug rings recruiting students at top schools
Asian crime syndicates are using foreign students in some of Auckland's best high schools to receive illegal shipments of the drugs used to produce methamphetamine.
Drug seizure nets $6m worth of methamphetamine
In the biggest methamphetamine bust in New Zealand this year, 6kg of the the class A drug was intercepted at Auckland airport.
Sniffer dogs searching for drugs in schools
Sniffer dogs are being brought into schools amid growing concern about the escalating number of children found in possession of drugs.
Prison visitor arrested after drugs and cash found in car
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.
Funding cuts threaten drug clinic
One of only two Maori-based residential centres for youth faces closure by April.
Tennis: Gods of sport rarely without pressure
Andre Agassi says being bullied into doing something he didn't like saw him change into a P-user.
Tribesmen raided in agency's first bust
Members of the Tribesmen gang have been targeted in the first ever bust by the Organised and Financial Crime Agency today.