Seven people have been arrested in Kaikohe as part of a crack down on gangs in the area, police say.

Two men were arrested after gang-related disorder in Ashburton yesterday.

The Dunedin Notorious Mongrel Mob is distancing itself from a plan to allow gang members to compete for the city's green space contracts.

The Notorious Mongrel Mob and Black Power could be coming to a lawn near you.

Wellsford businesses are supporting a charity motorcycle run by a gang whose fellow chapter was caught manufacturing meth, according to police.

It is a quarter of a century since Straight Outta Compton, the seminal gangsta rap album, made a 25 sq km area of Los Angeles synonymous with gang violence and murder.

A suspected gang member opened fire on a group outside a Portland high school, sending three young people to the hospital in what police said appeared to be a gang-related shooting.

Friends of Scot Young, the tycoon who died in a fall from his fourth-storey London flat, have claimed that he owed millions of pounds to the Russian and Turkish mafia.

I write this as a gang member. This month the Government announced a new plan to deal with gangs. It's something of a pre-election tradition, but let's put that aside.

A 33-year-old man charged with the murder of Connor Morris has made a brief appearance in court in Kaitaia this morning.

Two brothers who lived at the West Auckland home outside where Connor Morris was killed have gone into hiding amid fears of retaliation.

"Dead men walking": Threats of retribution against the killers of Connor Morris are escalating seven days after his death during a fight.

Police investigating the death of Connor Morris have located a number of items of interest but say it is too soon to say if they have the weapon that killed him.

Millie Elder-Holmes paid an emotional tribute to her "soulmate" and the man she credited with saving her life.

More than one hundred bikes lined the street outside a gang headquarters in Auckland as mourners turned out to pay tribute to Connor Morris.

Connor Morris had rejoined the Head Hunters in recent months, which could increase the risk of retaliation over his death despite police saying it wasn't a gang hit.

With the figures for recorded crime trending very much in the right direction, it is difficult for the Government to bang too insistently on that old standby.

Drug-sniffer beagles could soon be used at domestic airports and ferry terminals as part of a plan to intercept drug shipments and large amounts of cash moved by gangs.

The Government is proposing increased surveillance of gang members as part of a raft of new measures to tackle gang-related crime.

A father excluded from his son's school camp because he was an active gang member says he's overwhelmed by the nation's response to the decision.

A Whakatane gang member is upset he has been told by his son's school he can no longer be a parent helper at his son's school camp.

The Government is using money seized from drug bosses' assets to pay for 10 extra police investigators to fight organised crime and drug syndicates.

The last words Tupac Shakur spoke have been revealed by a police officer who was called to the scene of the rapper’s murder.

We may never know why teenage gang member Mohammed Hussain was in rival territory after dark on 1 April last year - even with armed back-up waiting close by in the car.

Lorne St doesn't really come alive until after midday. There are some coffee joints and a nail bar or two, and an art gallery.

A man who died during a visit to his parents' grave on Mother's Day was a former soldier, truck driver, father of four - and one of the original King Cobras gang members.