Musician Tigilau Ness won this year's Vodafone NZ Music Awards roots reggae award. The 61-year-old father of singer Che Fu is a political activist.

Veterans of two Hawke's Bay gangs will bike alongside each other in the fight against domestic violence in the White Ribbon Ride which

The jury returned its verdicts yesterday in the trial of two men accused of murdering Craig Rippon. In the High Court at Whanganui

A review of volunteers in New Zealand prisons has found two were active gang members - one of whom had a conviction for making P.

Crime is on the up in New Zealand, with latest figures showing an increase in burglaries, assaults, abductions and sex offences over the last year.

An epidemic of methamphetamine is ripping communities apart - but the fightback has begun.

Footage has emerged online of Tribal Huk members yelling for P dealers to leave Ngaruawahia.

Murder accused documented his neighbours' movements and took photos and videos as part of a plan to get them evicted.

The streets are 'eerily quiet', but the success of gang Tribal Huk's ultimatum is in dispute.

Police have named the man who died yesterday morning after he was taken in a critical condition to Whangarei's St John station in a dash to get him medical help.

Young people in state care will soon have a right to stay in or return to care until they turn 21.

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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.

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. Youth worker Adrian Pritchard says a holistic approach needs to be taken, and targeting youth alone won’t work. Made with funding from NZ on Air

The inaugural Black Power Film Festival offers wine, appetisers and discussion - perhaps not the first things most people would associate with a gang.

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.

John Key denies that the fight against meth is being lost but importations are up from countries where the drug is cheap, as gangs can make profit.