New Zealand Customs has destroyed more than $62 million of illicit drugs this week.

Z Energy will get back $9.5 million of the amount it paid last year to settle a dispute with New Zealand Customs.

Border officials caught the lemon smuggler at Auckland Airport after she arrived on a flight from Hong Kong on Monday.

Hayden Bacon was sentenced to almost 3 years in jail.

A major IT project that took four years longer than originally planned and is almost $30 million over the initial budget is not another Novopay, Customs says.

Customs said one aim of the exercise was to show potential terrorists or WMD smugglers New Zealand was not a soft touch

Almost 4 tonnes of tobacco was abandoned at New Zealand airports since duty free limits were dropped last November.

Four adorable labrador pups, who arrived from Australia on July 28, are doing a three-month intensive training course in the art of sniffing out illegal drugs and cash.

Claims of a computer being destroyed at a New Zealand airport after scans suggested a gun was being smuggled inside have baffled Customs.

People might not always connect Internal Affairs anti-fraud specialists with a sense of humour.

Fruit fly-infested chillies, dried frogs and a tiger tooth are among the weird goods travellers have been trying to get past New Zealand border staff in the last month.

Around $50 million worth of illegal drugs have been destroyed in a Customs drug disposal operation yesterday.

Four Asian tourists are facing life in prison after being caught allegedly trying to smuggle over 12kg of methamphetamine into the country.

Customs has stopped a $360,000 supply of a "date rape" drug from hitting our streets, in one of the biggest busts of its kind in New Zealand.

US tourists say NZ airport security's confiscation of their chutney and jelly was bullying and has tarnished their holiday.

Police have shut down two sophisticated drug rings and seized meth worth up to $123 million during a series of busts across Auckland.

Customs is intercepting more mail containing cocaine, LSD and Ecstasy as people use online drug marketplaces to order recreational drugs.

A Canadian teenager has been jailed for nine years for importing almost $2 million worth of methamphetamine in supplement containers.

A woman who imported nearly $1 million of methamphetamine in the post made the police's job significantly easier by having it delivered to her home.

Is it really necessary to look at the contents of personal computers at the country's borders? Clearly Customs is already doing so.

More weapons are being intercepted at New Zealand's borders but the law limits investigations into those behind importations, Customs says.

Customs is seeking new powers including requiring a person to provide a password or access to their electronic devices and make them empty their pockets.

A French foodie who couldn't part with her pate has become the first person convicted for deliberating concealing biosecurity goods on a visiting yacht.

A $2.5 million meth ring run by ex-pat Nigerians was smashed after police turned their drug mule against them, a court has heard.

A false declaration on a container arriving from China has landed an Auckland woman a $3000 fine.