COMMENT: Your columnist has a soft spot for those born into less blessed homes and difficult circumstances. But not for gang members.

"Pop, pop, pop": A witness to an extraordinary gang clash on the streets of Whakatane has described how frightened motorists ran for their lives.

Police appeal for film of a funeral procession after shots were fired during a gang clash in Whakatane yesterday.

Police arrested multiple people after shots were fired at a Mongrel Mob member Tahu Kingi's funeral procession going from Kawerau to Whakatane.

A brawl between two rival gangs involving weapons broke out during a funeral procession in Whakatane yesterday.

Wanted man dodges police after removing electronic monitoring bracelet.

When Bailee Wilson-Yates was a child, her mother yanked her out of bed in the night, and they escaped their violent home.

A tourist strayed into a notorious slum in Rio de Janeiro and was shot dead by drug traffickers.

Jamie Pink has pleaded not guilty to charges of possessing weapons.

Waitemata Police have stopped prosecuting small-time P dealers. Does the Government agree?

NZ has the fourth-highest rate of child deaths from assault in the OECD. Simon Collins visited three communities to look for the root causes.

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.

The Tribal Huk gang leader who claims to have rid Ngaruawahia of P dealers has the bullet holes to prove it wasn't an easy fight.

The Government's $15 million worth of anti-drug initiatives is welcomed in the Bay of Plenty, where meth use is on the rise, but some

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.

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.