Rob Kidd

A Dunedin man who embarked on a seven-month meth-fuelled spree of threats and violence was "simply out of control", a judge says.

The company behind a Dunedin rendering plant has been fined nearly $100,000 over the "disgusting and sickening" odour it produced.

A nationally-ranked Dunedin chess player secretly filmed himself having sex with a woman, a court has heard.

A Balclutha man has been stripped of his new diving gear after he was caught with more than triple the daily paua limit.

A Dunedin man found with 11,000 child-sex-abuse files has had time knocked off his jail sentence because he may struggle living behind bars.

A Mosgiel man has admitted committing two armed robberies in a fortnight, including the hold-up at Crofters Bar.

A Dunedin man stomped his partner’s cat to death then gave the woman a beating two months later, a court has heard.