Court

A Dunedin teenager has been given two years' jail for robbing a south city dairy at knife-point last November. Luke Bradley Savigny (18) had admitted robbing the Sai Food Market Dairy in Prince Albert Rd while armed with a large knife.

One of the men charged with assaulting Jesse Ryder has pleaded guilty to his part in the incident.

A judge has sentenced a prolific lawbreaker to 21 months' jail after he clocked up his 14th conviction for drink-driving and 13th conviction for driving while disqualified.

The owner of the Switched on Gardener chain of hydroponic supply shops has been sent to jail for four years and three months.

A Briton who admitted arranging for 3kg of cocaine with a street value of almost $1 million to be delivered to his old schoolmates in Auckland has been sentenced to six and a-half years in prison.

The former wife of a man accused of a 30-year-old murder cold case has told a court he reached "flashpoint" when he was refused oil by the service station worker he allegedly gunned down.

A woman is alleged to have tried to a shoot a police officer with his own Taser during a brutal attack in Dargaville in Northland.

A top sportsman has appeared in court over a serious assault on a man at a bar.

The trial of an elderly Rotorua man accused of shooting a Turangi service station attendant more than 30 years ago will begin today after the court was unable to select enough jurors yesterday.

A man accused of killing a Turangi service station attendant more than 30 years ago has pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder.