Guy Williams

A Mataura man has been caught drink-driving twice in two months with identical breath-alcohol levels more than four times the legal limit.

A Wānaka man who crashed into a parked car after drinking 25 pre-mixed drinks had a blood-alcohol level "off the charts", a community magistrate says.

A French DJ’s lucrative sideline in drug dealing came to an end when he sold ecstasy to an undercover detective in Queenstown.

A Queenstown restaurateur urinated in the telephone room of the resort town’s police station after being caught drink-driving, a court has heard.

A Queenstown builder who knocked out a pensioner with a coward’s punch knows he is on his last chance, his lawyer says.

A judge has thrown out a woman’s application for an Otago Daily Times article about her drink-driving conviction to be removed from the newspaper’s website.

In a first for Queenstown Lakes, a non-profit organisation is taking a kaupapa Māori approach to providing social services for convicted offenders.

The death of a Pisa Moorings man in a fiery crash near Wānaka Airport was another example of the dangers of drink-driving, a coroner says.

The victim of an indecent assault showed remarkable composure to get her attacker’s details and coax him out of her home, a judge says.

An apprentice electrician who punched a DJ while on supervision for previous offending got "caught up in the moment" while out drinking, his lawyer says.

A Wānaka woman who went on a five-month tagging spree has avoided a conviction and cannot be named.

A Central Otago orchard must pay more than $260,000 in penalties after a packing shed incident led to a teenage seasonal worker having three fingers amputated.

A former Aucklander has been sentenced in the Alexandra District Court to more than three years’ prison for attempting to evade nearly $1.1 million in PAYE, GST and income tax.

An itinerant man seen with a late-model ute without plates in Cromwell told police he had bought it on Facebook.

A Glenorchy man caught behind the wheel with an "extraordinarily high" alcohol level has told a judge he forgot he was forbidden from driving.