Police yesterday stood down a search for the occupant of a dinghy found floating empty in Blueskin Bay, north of Dunedin, but are keen to hear from its owner.
An Auckland woman who had a three-year affair with a Dunedin businessman has been found guilty of harassing the man's wife with a "premeditated, persistent, vile barrage and attack".
A mother whose teenage son spent time in Te Puna Wai is shocked the man in charge of the youth justice centre previously oversaw an Australian youth facility at the centre of an abuse investigation.