Rob Kidd

A Dunedin man’s 10th drink-driving conviction has landed him behind bars for 18 months.

A drunk student who punched a stranger on the street has failed in his bid to avoid conviction, despite claiming it might thwart his bid to join the army.

A Dunedin bar owner has lost his manager's certificate for four weeks for a drunken attack on his partner.

After more than seven weeks, police are nearing a decision on whether they will charge an Otago policeman accused of a serious assault at a party.

A judge has been left bewildered by a habitual speedster who took police on a chase at speeds reaching nearly 160kmh.

You can only smuggle so much meat down a pair of trousers.

A 71-year-old Dunedin vegetarian, who says a prayer for plants before he eats them, is struggling with the fact he killed a pedestrian, a court has heard.

The Otago Corrections department has been named region of the year, thanks in part to an innovative project targeting young offenders.

When Scott Richard Short’s house burned down, he lost everything - including his cannabis crop and growing set-up.

A drunk woman’s decision to drive to Dunedin after a boozy night out in February resulted in her wiping out a carport and another vehicle, which ploughed into a lounge.

An Otago Regional Council senior staffer has been stung for drink-driving but told police he had only had "two bottles".

A judge has told a Dunedin teen he is "on a direct path to prison" if he continues his unabated pattern of offending.

Since Michael Joseph Batchelor has been driving, he has been driving badly.

A Dunedin burglar will remain behind bars after stealing two firearms from a home during a daylight break-in.

A drink-driver who hit a pedestrian at nearly 80kmh has failed in a bid to have his prison term reduced.

Three months after being jailed for beating her mother in front of the victim's grandchild, a Dunedin woman has had her appeal dismissed.

The case of an intellectually-disabled man who caused nearly $200,000 of damage was a sad indictment on the country’s social-service capacity, a judge said yesterday.

A man who throttled his pregnant partner and forced his knee into her stomach has been jailed for more than two years.

As two cars reached the brow of a hill on a rural South Otago back road, two families' lives collided.