A baby was forced to live in a tent as a family searched for a home.

High of hometown pride for Lions visit contrasts with low of scary gang clash on street.

Police are appealing for information about a gang-related firearm threat in Whakatane.

Ministry of Education says it will do more to keep at-risk teens in mainstream schools.

Prison chief orders inquiries after reviewing CTV footage personally.

National has no intention to liberalise NZ's drug laws, Prime Minister Bill English says.

Whakatane man Don Turei jnr died last year in a suspected hit-and-run.

Man checks himself in to Wairarapa Hospital with stab wounds.

Legitimate gun owners question firearms law changes. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Auckland Prison was in lockdown this afternoon after two inmates attacked staff.

Police are hunting two men as they investigate two separate homicide investigations.

Police are hunting Walter Reid Ngaau who has warrant to arrest for murder.

Mourners in Palmerston North set upon man and son in ute with gang signage, witnesses say.

The severity of the crimes being committed by youth in Christchurch is escalating.

While most enjoyed the festival, four videos of brawls at or around Polyfest have appeared online.

Kiwi rapper Scribe will spend the next month in a rehabilitation facility.

Footage has emerged of a group of males brawling, with two of them pushed onto a busy Auckland road.

Young Samoan gang members sent back to their home country from New Zealand in a bid to straighten them out, are instead starting gangs there.

Remains discovered in a Fairfax County park are linked to a wave of MS-13 violence.

She had a bullet hole in her head, and another in her chest, both of which appeared to have been fired at close range.

Want to know what patched gangs do for fun? This is it, writes sociologist Jarrod Gilbert.

Methamphetamine is the biggest driver of crime in 11 of the 12 police districts.

A US tattoo parlour has chosen to cover up gang-related tattoos for free.

Labour, Greens, Maori Party add weight to call for inquiry into claims of abuse of children in state care.

In Papakura, in Auckland's south, crime and gangs are a regular feature of many students' lives and can affect their education.

Guests at a wild party in an Airbnb rental were jumping fences and hiding in backyards to get away from a weapon-yielding gang that gatecrashed.

Keeping young people from a life of crime involves education and housing as well as police, Bill English tells Auckland crowd.

New Zealand's most notorious gang the Mongrel Mob is on a violent collision course with Australian outlaw bikie clubs after invading the Northern Territory.

COMMENT: I admit to appreciating the aesthetic of the punch that collected Spencer, but I recognise that as a guilty pleasure that mustn't be nurtured.

COMMENT: Stuart Nash is right. That gangs continue to thrive in this country is - as he says - "totally unacceptable", writes Rachel Smalley.