COMMENT: Can vigilantism be condoned in the fight against scourge of meth?

by Craig CooperEditor There is a delicious irony in taking money off criminals and investing it back into our communities. Although

COMMENT: There are some things you do in your career that you'd rather not have done.

A Ngaruawahia local board member says he's disappointed it took a gang that rid the town of meth, rather than the police.

As of Saturday morning, the small Waikato town was P free, a gang source said.

The Waikato mayor has accused the Tribal Huk gang leader of "grandstanding" over his ultimatum to drug dealers.

The deadline in Ngaruawahia is up but little appears to have shaken the quiet Waikato town ... so far.

A notorious gang has given the meth dealers in its Waikato town 24 hours to leave - and they say they'll only ask nicely the first time.

The Government is injecting $50,000 into steering young people away from Hawke's Bay's gang scene, but many say it would be better invested in whānau and parenting skills. Made with funding from NZ on Air

The Bandido Motorcycle Club is modelled on Mexican bandits who lived by their own rules.

With gangs deeply ingrained in Hawke's Bay, a new government initiative to steer youth away from them could provide lasting benefit

As a gang member held a knife to his throat, Jarrod Gilbert wondered if he was about to die.

More than $435 million worth of property, cars, cash and other assets has been frozen in New Zealand under a contentious law used

A 45-year-old Bay of Plenty man who first tried P aged 26 says the Bay scene is "the worst its ever been", with meth "easier to score than cannabis.

Police are promising "new information" on the Police Ten 7 show tomorrow night about the disappearance of Levin man Palmira Macdonald.

Suspected gang members raided serial burglar Luke Reich's home looking for stolen firearms while he was on remand in jail, The Star can reveal.

A police officer has been shot in the head after he took a wrong turn and entered a slum run by drug gangs in Rio de Janeiro.

A public tip-off to police days after the fatal shooting of George Taiaroa suggested a gang may have been involved in the stop-go operator's death.

Judith Collins' decision to suspend Ngapari Nui's voluntary work in Whanganui Prison could have far-reaching consequences, crime and

Police are on the lookout for a patched Hells Angels gang member.

A gang member was able to legally buy 18 high-powered firearms before police cottoned on - and now the cache has vanished.

Police said they were "keeping an open mind" about Palmiro MacDonald's disappearance.

I came to the Black Power as an act of community service.

A New Zealand criminologist says this country's "well-established" Asian gangs are usually tight-lipped about crime because they are fiercely loyal to each other.

Mike Hosking says gangs are a massive, multi-generational problem that are dangerously close to being in the 'too hard' basket.

Queensland police fear a fresh outbreak of violence on the Glitter Strip after the Mongrel Mob launched a Gold Coast chapter.

On the day he was fatally shot, a woman pleaded with East Coast Mangu Kaha gang boss Tumanako Tauhore to resolve his differences with her partner, the High Court at Gisborne has heard.

The fatal shooting of the president of Black Power-affiliated was murder, Crown prosecutors told a jury in a packed High Court at Gisborne.

COMMENT: The police have been deemed me unfit to undertake crime research because I know criminals, writes Dr Jarrod Gilbert.