Rob Kidd

Beneath Palmerston’s tranquil exterior, tensions between rival groups of pensioners have been bubbling, ultimately spilling over into a bitter court case. Rob Kidd traces the origins of the discord.

A recidivist flasher has added yet another conviction for a similar offence.

A teenager who decapitated two stags during late-night poaching missions during lockdown has been sentenced to community work.

A teenager who decapitated two stags while on late-night poaching missions during lockdown has been sentenced to community work.

A Dunedin gang member who blackmailed a man out of $250,000 has been paroled with 14 months of his prison term outstanding.

A six-time drink-driver has been locked up for the first time after being found so intoxicated he was "unable to string a sentence together".

A woman who rolled her car into Otago Harbour while drunk was lucky she did not drown, a judge says.

It's escaping from prison without technically escaping from prison.

For nearly 40 years, the victims of a Clinton sexual predator have waited for justice.

If Drew Cairney planned to get away with drink-driving, a near head-on collision with police was not the way to do it.

A man who allegedly attacked the Dunedin City Council’s Civic Centre had discovered, only hours earlier, that the driver who killed his daughter walked away with a clean record.

A fruit picker from New Caledonia preyed on two intoxicated, sleeping women on the same night, a court has heard.

The star-studded judging panel for the Otago Daily Times’ prison creative-writing competition can now be revealed.

A man who shoplifted ammunition days before the Christchurch mosque attacks’ second anniversary says he feels like "scum".

A gang enforcer who repeatedly beat a prospect as part of a "conditioning ritual" will likely serve his time behind bars without early release.

A former gang member found with two sawn-off rifles says he has left the outlaw lifestyle behind.