Karen Pasco

An Invercargill man whose childhood environment was one of domestic violence and neglect would need to leave the Mongrel Mob if he was committed to turning his life around, a judge said yesterday.

A lawyer in the Invercargill District Court became angry after his client waited seven hours and still could not enter a guilty plea.

A man caught with a bong in his hand when his friend was stopped by police for speeding was sentenced to 31 months’ jail for drug dealing yesterday.

Worksafe has charged three companies in relation to the death of geotechnical worker Thomas Edward Arnold, who died in Fiordland National Park last year.

A Bluff fishing company has been banned from fishing for paua for three years and fined $40,000 after admitting unlawfully discarding nearly 300kg of dead paua.

A man who threatened a customer with a Taser at a Gore petrol station has been sentenced to 12 months’ jail.

It is hoped a sentence of censure, suspension and a fine for a former Invercargill doctor will bring closure to a family whose son died from cancer.

The man who allegedly wielded a knife while robbing an Invercargill dairy in August can now be named.

A former doctor has been censured, suspended and fined $5000 for negligence for his treatment of a cancer patient who has since died.

A former Invercargill doctor has been censured, suspended and fined $5000 for negligence for his treatment of a cancer patient who has since died.

The man accused of wielding a knife while robbing an Invercargill dairy in August can now be named.

The man accused of wielding a knife while robbing an Invercargill dairy in August can now be named.

Two businesses have been unsuccessful in recouping court costs despite charges of dumping potentially contaminated debris into a farm gully being dismissed.

A restraining court order has been placed on a Mataura couple’s property, car and cash, which police say is "tainted" - bought from the proceeds of criminal activity.

A man who received spinal injuries after a driver failed to stop at a compulsory stop sign says justice was not served when the man was sentenced.

A man who burgled his work premises then assaulted his former partner by shaking her head and ripping out an earring.

A man caught in possession of 569.38g of cannabis has admitted offering to supply cannabis to 38 people over a 20-month period.

A man who faces 111 charges in relation to destruction of vehicles around Invercargill appeared in the Invercargill District Court yesterday.

A man who delivered cannabis and methamphetamine to Invercargill Prison left his fingerprints all over the packaging it was contained in.