Rob Kidd

Within days of discovering his wife was leaving him, an Invercargill police officer was searching rifles for sale online.

A Dunedin man who sexually abused his daughter and tortured her when she did not comply with his twisted demands has been jailed for four years.

A Nelson woman whose methamphetamine-fuelled crime spree took her south to Dunedin has been jailed for two years.

A man arrested on a cruise ship at Port Chalmers over alleged sexual abuse will appear in court on Friday.

A 10-time drink-driver has been labelled ``a deadly risk on the road'' during a bid to have his jail term cut.

If Goldilocks had been drinking beer rather than eating porridge it might have played out something like this.

A man who terrorised his former boss over a wage dispute has failed to have a jail term converted to home detention.

When Ioane Nofoaiga realised he was too drunk to drive, he stopped the car and fell asleep with the engine running.

It was third time unlucky for a Queenstown chef who failed to convince the Court of Appeal his drink-driving conviction was a miscarriage of justice.

A Dunedin man who threw a plate of mashed potato at his former partner’s head has been ordered to undertake counselling.

Having blown her family’s funds on gambling, a desperate Victoria Lee Cassidy advertised electronics, furniture and whiteware online.

A former Dunedin social worker who sexually abused girls in his care during the 1980s has failed to have his convictions quashed.

A Dunedin mechanic involved in an alcohol-fuelled hit and run removed his registration plates and left his wrecked vehicle, a court heard.

A Mosgiel man who committed ''repeated acts of violence'' has been jailed for nine months.

A woman who posted someone's confidential medical information on Instagram accompanied the photo with a single comment: ''LOL''

A driver who got his car stuck in mud was so drunk he wrestled a Good Samaritan to the ground when she rang for help, a court has heard.

Two more gang associates have pleaded guilty over a drunken street fight in central Dunedin that left a man with facial injuries.

A former Dunedin social worker jailed for 13 years for historic sexual abuse against eight girls in his care has failed in an appeal bid.