Felicity Dear

A Dunedin father and road-safety advocate has admitted crashing his car on the motorway, wiping out 200m of the wire barrier.

A Dunedin drug dealer has avoided prison after threatening to poison his baby’s bottle.

A Dunedin man used a knife to slash a pillow his ex-partner was lying on, a court has heard.

A five-star Dunedin social housing complex remains a "wonderful place" despite a tenant being evicted for threatening to blow up his neighbours with a gas bottle, the Salvation Army says.

A "luxury" Otago taxi company, and the man behind it, have been hauled before the court, accused of exploiting foreign workers.

A meth dealer will spend more time in prison for refusing to leave his cell and explain where he got $45,000 cash and a vintage motorbike.

A "completely out of it" Dunedin driver caused a head-on collision, rolling a car and fracturing the passenger’s sternum.

A Dunedin man has been jailed after he was found slumped over in his car with a bottle of Scrumpy between his legs.

A Dunedin man given home detention because he was "screaming out for help" breached the sentence 11 days after it began.

A Dunedin man who sexually abused a girl on dozens of occasions has had four months shaved off his prison sentence.

Shoppers at a Dunedin supermarket were exposed to a bizarre, X-rated performance by a repeat thief.

A Dunedin man used a rudimentary technique involving a sock to defeat an alcohol interlock device, leaving a judge "astounded".

An Invercargill woman jailed for stabbing a man up to eight times while dressed as a nun has had a bid for home detention refused.

A woman found with war memorabilia from a dead person's house in Dunedin says she was committing crimes to send money to a threatening ex-partner in prison.

A senior health boss says a Dunedin poet’s hospital discharge treatment had "a higher chance of failure than an ideal plan".