Rob Kidd

A prominent figure in the Dunedin entertainment industry has been charged with paying a 15-year-old girl for sex and selling methamphetamine.

An attack driven by jealousy has landed a Dunedin man in prison for nearly two and a-half years.

A Dunedin man who strangled, punched, head-butted and bit his partner during three months of extreme violence has been jailed for nearly four years.

A former Dunedin lawyer and recipient of a Queen’s Birthday honour faces serious sex charges, it can now be revealed.

A man whose rock’n’roll antics caused $10,000 of damage to a Dunedin hotel room did it to "get arrested".

When Garth McLachlan was jailed this week, it was 27 months since the hit-and-run that claimed the life of a beloved Owaka farmer.

A Dunedin honey-trap blackmailer is back behind bars after just two months on parole.

A Corrections officer was left battered and bruised after two Otago prisoners attacked him in a caged corridor, a court has heard.

A Dunedin man’s vicious rape — which he filmed on his victim’s phone — was "sexual violence in its truest form", a court has heard.

A convicted double murderer in a relationship with a controversial Dunedin former nurse is being "closely managed", Corrections says.

A Dunedin landscape architect has been cleared of groping a 12-year-old in a public changing room in what a judge called an "unusual" case.

A Dunedin man had the "full kit" to commit a burglary, but his getaway vehicle proved to be his undoing.

A Mosgiel mother has been left "gobsmacked" after her son brought home a knife he made in a Taieri College metalwork class.

After a Dunedin man’s arrest over a domestic issue, all concerned were subjected to his stabbing threats — his partner, police officers and the judge among them.