The focus of a major police operation to seize $4m in cars, cash and property, but who are the Head Hunters?

Police will not fight a judge's decision to throw out criminal charges against gangsters after a botched undercover investigation.

A Mongrel Mob gang member who ran down and killed a police officer in a stolen car has been denied parole.

A High Court judge suggested the police “probably” broke the law by faking a prosecution against an undercover officer to boost his credibility with a gang.

In bikie club culture where loyalty and territory are highly valued, disagreements can too easily boil over, writes Jarrod Gilbert.

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.

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.

Cabinet signed off tough new measures to tackle gangs on the basis of inaccurate information which over-estimated the scale of the crime problem.

Figures used by Police Minister Anne Tolley to justify a new law tackling gangs were wrong, police admitted last night.

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.

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.

A Hamilton woman's attempt to help out a prisoner in need of new underpants failed after authorities rejected the garments because of their colour scheme.

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.

Millie Elder-Holmes has made an emotional visit to the Auckland gang headquarters where the body of her slain boyfriend Connor Morris lies.

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.