Joyce Blondell spent 12 years in jail for a murder her family says she didn't commit. After four years living the quiet life in Oamaru she's back behind bars after gambling on love and losing everything, writes Rob Kidd.
A musician says a note which shut down central Dunedin and resulted in the New Zealand Defence Force being called in was simply poetry.
A Dunedin 58-year-old is behind bars again for stabbing his "friend" at a boarding house, five and a-half years after an almost identical incident.
Several Black Power members and associates have denied charges over two violent incidents in Dunedin.
A musician says a note which shut down central Dunedin and caused the the defence force to be called in was simply poetry.
A former Dunedin newsreader and actor has been sentenced to community detention after admitting to assaulting his ex-partner.
A man who crashed a truck full of bobby calves has not been charged with causing his 4-year-old passenger's death.
When 28 firearms and more than 22,000 rounds of ammunition were stolen from a Dunedin home, police knew they had to act fast.
A Dunedin man who posted semi-naked photos of his ex-girlfriend and advertised her for $1 on a Facebook page with more than 77,000 members, has ruined her life, a court has heard.
The man who orchestrated the burglary of a huge cache of weapons from a Dunedin pistol club member has been jailed for nearly four and a-half years.
A Milton man drove two hours to his former employer's home over a wage dispute, smashed windows and deliberately ran the victim down as he left, a court has heard.
The man behind the burglary of a huge cache of weapons from a Dunedin pistol club member has been jailed for nearly four and a-half years.
A Milton man drove to his former employer's home to demand money then smashed windows and ran the man down as he left, a court has heard.
Leon Fallow spent nearly eight years behind bars for stabbing an Invercargill man to death in a jealous rage. Rob Kidd reports on how moving to Dunedin this year has seen him jailed for another violent attack.
A judge has heaped a little more pain on an already embattled Dunedin police force.
A Dunedin man accused of attacking someone with a ratchet during a home invasion has walked away from a potential jail term of up to 14 years because of a police mistake.
A tagger who was previously jailed for his illicit graffiti told a judge he represented a “North Island art crew”.
A Dunedin man will serve eight months on home detention in the house where he posed online as a young girl and downloaded child pornography.
Police are investigating allegations an experienced Otago police officer subjected a woman to a vicious attack while he was off-duty.
A man who hacked almost completely through his victim's arm with a machete lost two of his own fingers in an incident four years earlier.
