Home / New Zealand / CrimeHerald ReportersNZ Herald·24 Aug, 2026 09:03 PM2 mins to read‌NZ Herald Morning Headlines | Tuesday, August 25, 2026.

The Government is not ruling out age restrictions on further platforms – as it moves to ban social media for under-16s.A traveller faces the next eight years in prison after attempting to smuggle more than $1 million of methamphetamine into New Zealand by concealing it in a kitchen stock pot.

The 59-year-old man was sentenced to seven years and eight months’ imprisonment in the Manukau District Court on Friday for

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