Five of the tour group, and their tour leader, reached the arrivals hall but the sixth was subjected to a search that Customs said led to the discovery of $6m of pure meth.

Narcotraficantes, or drug dealers, can buy the murder of many, and the loyalty of nearly everyone.

Customs is reviewing the way it targets rising levels of imports of the party drug mephedrone, which has been linked to deaths in Europe.

A drug thought to be used by Kiwis as a substitute for ecstasy could be banned in Britain after being linked to two deaths.

A recent poll has found 40 per cent of New Zealanders are open to the idea of becoming a state of Australia.

A NZ toddler and his Indian-born mother were turned back from India and interrogated on their return to Auckland Airport because their names were on a terrorism blacklist.

Chinese drug smugglers are posting P ingredients to NZ in thousands of parcels each year, in an apparent shift in tactics.

Drug dealers will use new and innovative ways to combat the Government's attempts at stopping smuggling, customs and drugs experts warn.

In the biggest methamphetamine bust in New Zealand this year, 6kg of the the class A drug was intercepted at Auckland airport.

The special police unit is being set up to seize criminal assets and will have a hit list to work on, Police Minister Judith Collins revealed today.

Members of the Tribesmen gang have been targeted in the first ever bust by the Organised and Financial Crime Agency today.

Failed major developments in New Zealand are piling up, like the Soho Square project in Ponsonby which is now mocked as 'Sohole'.

A NZ citizen of Middle Eastern origin says he is discriminated against by Customs officials who interrogate every time he returns home.

Police know of at least 30 people have handed over millions of dollars to an alleged fraudster over the last 20 years.