Rob Kidd

A truck driver with a record of bad driving who hit a school bus near Palmerston has suffered post-traumatic stress disorder since the incident, a court has heard.

A 40-year-old Dunedin man with 186 convictions, described as ''the textbook'' offender, has been given a chance to turn his life around.

Two men have been stung with fines totalling $3000 and stripped of a vehicle and fishing gear after trying to sneak excess paua away from Warrington.

‘‘I’ve been doing this for 30 years. I’ve never hurt anyone,’’ a Milton drink-driver told police when he was pulled over.

A judge has ordered the destruction of a dog that mauled a 3-year-old, despite the Dunedin pet owner's protestations.

Within half an hour of being served with a protection order barring him from contacting his ex-partner, Bobby Darin MacGillivray got in his car to look for her.

Robbing a taxi driver of $100 — using her fingernail to mimic a weapon — has landed a Dunedin woman in jail for two and a-half years.

The Otago tradesman accused of raping a woman in a Waihola public toilet can now be named.

A Dunedin prisoner assessed as posing a "dynamic risk" of violence to women has been denied parole again.

A man accused of murdering a Dunedin couple and setting fire to their house will keep his identity under wraps until at least June.

When a Dunedin chef was arrested after importing more than $150,000 of ecstasy, he admitted to police that he was a drug dealer and explained he had children to raise.

A Dunedin man who distributed nearly 2500 child-abuse images to boost his profile within a paedophile ring will be paroled five months short of his sentence end date.

A woman has steadfastly maintained she was raped by her stepfather despite a defence lawyer suggesting her account of abuse was nonsensical.

A woman who claims she was repeatedly raped by her stepfather from the age of 11 said he would later hide her contraceptive pill.

It took Kenneth David Mathieson 20 years to get his second drink-driving conviction, but just hours to chalk up his third.

A formerly homeless woman who was the subject of a public protest by a Dunedin MP has been convicted of drug offences.

A Dunedin man is on trial accused of sexually abusing a pre-teen girl in a variety of ways for four years.

After attacking his "best friend", Jason Karl Blackler took a taxi to his girlfriend’s house and left the man for dead.

A Dunedin woman faces a nervous wait to find out whether her dog will be destroyed after it attacked a 3-year-old boy.