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From prison to professor: Lance Ryan’s journey highlights reintegration gaps
OPINION: I was banned for life from directing and served over eight years in prison.

Millie Elder-Holmes fined $5k for promoting online gambling
Screenshots showed Elder-Holmes promoting overseas gambling from June 2024 to March 2025

Criminals stage digger thefts for insurance payouts
Insurance Fraud Bureau flags fraud trends.

IPCA to investigate how high-ranking police handled allegations against Jevon McSkimming
IPCA to investigate potential 'neglect of duty' by police after misconduct complaint.

Peter Huljich is Pushpay insider trader
The convicted rich-lister abandons a three-year effort to suppress his name.

Drugs and gangs: Research reveals messaging apps used to sell cannabis, MDMA
Survey of nearly 11,000 users reveals most popular social media apps to purchase drugs.

Police deputy quits after porn allegedly found on work computer - sources
Pornography allegedly found while high-ranking officer suspended in separate inquiry.

Drugs, bribes, body-image and Instagram: Lifting the lid on modern sport
Officials now recommend boundaries around 1:1 messaging between coaches and young people

'Off the scale' drug supply fuelling gang clashes in the regions
Homes shot at, cars rammed, drug busts during two months of gang tension.

Korean tourist going home with wife's remains after causing crash which killed her
Couple’s dream NZ holiday to celebrate 'growing old together' ends in tragedy.

Nine fires in five years: Environment Court rules on scrap metal dealer
Training, stockpile monitoring and management and lithium battery handling orders made.

Pushpay insider trader loses latest bid for suppression
Businessman sentenced in 2023 fails to overturn conviction and retain name suppression.

Cryptocurrency ATMs and 'high risk' cash wages should be banned, experts warn
Police could be given power to monitor bank accounts in real time, experts say.

Property Insider: What could the future hold for ex-Auckland Star site? Architects explain champion Te Arai home design
'Somebody, please build something here – anything' debate on a site empty for 36 years.

'Body-packed five cartons': Man busted smuggling cigarettes at Wellington airport
Illegal tobacco operations sell from Facebook marketplace, churches and language schools.

Inside the secret 3-year criminal case against Auckland's luxury doggy daycare
Prosecutors claim the firm earned $180k in extra profits by ignoring resource consents.

Influential gang member returns to NZ for funeral, police arrest him at Auckland airport
Social media posts show the gangster driving flash cars and shopping for designer clothes.

Tribesmen gang member released after shooting Killer Beez leader Josh Masters
Okusitino Tae was released from prison this week despite potential risk of gang conflict.

'Urgent international co-operation': Crime rings threaten integrity of NZ sport
The Sport Integrity Commission has sought advice from Interpol on organised crime.

'That's what happens when you f*** with family': How a family feud ended in gang murder
Rebel MC member gunned down at close range by Head Hunter after five previous incidents.

Gambling promo: Millie Elder-Holmes faces complaint, 26 influencers now on watchlist
Internal Affairs said it has received 50 complaints about influencers promoting gambling

Steve Braunias: My summer with Mark Lundy
Steve Braunias visited Mark Lundy once a week ahead of his 2015 murder retrial.

Steve Braunias: The enduring questions at Mark Lundy's parole hearing today
Steve Braunias previews Mark Lundy's parole hearing at Tongariro Prison today.

Ferrari-driving gang member admits importing 613kg drugs, faces losing $7m in assets
The main target in Operation Weirton has pleaded guilty on the eve of High Court trial.

Opinion: 'Lots of secrets' - Inside the gripping documentary on Polkinghorne trial
Steve Braunias reviews the documentary of the trial of the century.

Operation Sphinx: How undercover officers cracked the Ariki Rigby gang-related murder
Top cop: 'I was always confident that we were going to get Mr Heremaia.'

'I know you did it': Secret tapes reveal escort's confrontation with lover Polkinghorne
Madison Ashton secretly recorded Philip Polkinghorne, confronting him about his wife, Pauline Hanna’s, death. Video / Mike Scott, Carolyne Meng-Yee, Michael Craig, Corey Fleming

Wattle Park developer liquidated: Kiwibank owed $3.6m, Inland Revenue $1.09m
Project completed in January 2022 but developer blames Covid and the downturn for debts.

NZ is ‘losing the fight’ against organised crime; new report urges bold changes
Report by experts says information-sharing between government agencies is 'deficient'.

Du Val saga: How were jewellery, artworks, firearms paid for?
PwC sought court orders for Clarkes to deliver assets or provide information about them.

Opinion: How Adolescence highlights the digital dilemma for parents
'Adolescence' depicts the dangers of radicalisation through online content.

Rare life sentence for meth haul: Gang mastermind imported nearly 200kg from behind bars
The 'revered' gangster known as 'Plata o Plomo' was already serving a long prison term.

Revealed: Auckland construction figure charged with importing 515kg of meth
The 52-year-old denies any knowledge of the drugs hidden inside 42 steel beams from the US

Ryan Peake’s journey from Rebels biker gang and prison to NZ Open champion
Golf champ and ex-Rebel bikie says troubled past has shaped him into the man he is today.

‘We’ve got a big problem': Meth use in NZ spikes to record high
Consumption doubled in the second half of 2024, according to wastewater testing.

Editorial: Lack of employer support for new citizens' arrest law should give Govt pause for thought
OPINION: Some of the Government's biggest business allies see problems with the new bill.

NZ gang member pleads guilty to FBI charges, facing lengthy US prison sentence
Shane Ngakuru, 45, was a key distributor of ANOM network secretly controlled by FBI

‘Borrowed time’: Peter Beckett’s final days in Central America
Former Napier councillor sick for 'some time' – mercy dash details revealed.

Funeral for father of high-profile gang boss set to disrupt Tauranga traffic, police warn
Expected influx of members of the Mongols outlaw motorcycle club could clash with locals.

Money-laundering rule changes could land NZ on undesirable grey list
Capital inflows could be at risk if anti-organised crime rule changes fail.

‘Hunger Games’: Inside the proposed restructure of NZ's most senior police officers and staff
Leaked proposal reveals which jobs are disestablished among the highest levels of police.

Head Hunters sentenced for gang tax demands at ‘love motel’
$1500 a week in gang tax was demanded.

Hells Angels boss jailed for 25 years as Kiwi pair on run for 400kg cocaine plot
Hells Angel and meth cook escaped from Romania after DEA sting and are still fugitives.

'New epidemic': AI-generated child sex abuse pics found in NZ
Customs warns it is taking action and has several cases before the courts.

‘We’re a different kettle of fish’: Inside the three-year police investigation that busted the Comancheros gang
Jared Savage pieces together four different covert investigations which targeted the gang.

Sunny Kaushal: Fighting crime needs the team of five million
OPINION: Small crimes go unpunished leading to larger crimes with real human consequences.

Summer reads: A look inside New Zealand's gang scene
A behind-the-scenes look at NZ's criminal underbelly.