In a dark basement below the main stage of Kawerau's town hall, a bunch of teenagers are on punching bags.

Three Mongrel Mob members were arrested in Hastings last night after one assaulted a woman and the other two stopped police from doing their job.

There is extra security at Gisborne Hospital following a gang brawl between Black Power and the Mongrel Mob last night.

The mother of a murdered Bay of Plenty teenager said today she was unable to describe how she felt about her son's "brutal, absolutely senseless death". A Mongrel Mob member ran down Jordan Herewini in Murupara last year.

Crossbows, $20,000 cash, methamphetamine and a Harley Davidson motorcycle were among goods seized during a series of police raids on Hells Angels gang houses in Auckland and Napier this morning.

Seven people have been arrested after drug raids on nine properties including the Hells Angels Auckland HQ today. Police said the raids came on the back of an 'intensive' two month investigation into a Hawkes Bay methamphetamine ring.

A notorious residential tower in Chicago is to be demolished in January.

Police and soldiers charged into Rio's most dangerous slum at daybreak to arrest a leading drug lord.