Rob Kidd

A man who used every room in a Dunedin flat — including the roof space — to grow nearly $500,000 worth of cannabis has been locked up.

After detaining his victim, Kurt Tamati Winklemann beat him, told him he would shoot him in the back of the head, then put a beanie over his face and drove him to a rural roadside near Outram.

A Dunedin man who raped a 12-year-old girl and stole her clothes to wear has now been caught with child pornography.

A man who stabbed his mother’s dog in the neck then threatened to do the same to her has been jailed for 16 months.

A man who stabbed his mother’s dog in the neck, then threatened to do the same to her, has been jailed for 16 months.

Arthur Taylor will be released from prison next week.

A man who attacked a police officer with an axe said he planned to decapitate him and wave his head at other officers so they would shoot him.

The year just gone was good year to turn the pages and get lost in a book. ODT books editor Rob Kidd gives us his top 10 — in no particular order — for 2020.

A Dunedin woman who stabbed her victim three times during a boarding-house brawl said she did so because she "did not want a fight".

A woman who was molested by a labourer in a bar says she has lost everything since that night.

High-profile inmate Arthur Taylor has failed again to secure his release from prison.

A Dunedin man caught preparing to commit an armed robbery at an Invercargill service station has been given a chance to stay out of jail.

High-profile inmate Arthur Taylor has failed again to persuade authorities to release him from prison.

Dunedin City councillor Lee Vandervis has failed in a legal battle which stemmed from a $12 parking ticket.

A Dunedin man punched, kicked and heel-stomped his victim before smashing him unconscious with a vodka bottle, a court has heard.