Rob Kidd

A Dunedin man responsible for a violent armed burglary punched a police officer just seconds after being jailed for more than five years.

A racist attack at Dunedin’s bus hub, just six months before a fatal stabbing, was a "hate crime", a judge says.

A former Portuguese paratrooper who became embroiled in a $27 million Dunedin cocaine plot will be deported in September.

The 13-year-old accused of a fatal stabbing at Dunedin’s bus hub has been bailed.

A Dunedin man who threatened to put his lawyer in a suitcase and throw her off a bridge has been spared a sentence of imprisonment after she wrote in his support.

The parents of a Dunedin man killed by a runaway truck say they now struggle to live with the "unbearable pain" of their loss.

A Dunedin benefit fraudster who scammed the system for the second time in a decade has avoided a term of imprisonment. 

A solo father who caused a lurid flesh wound outside a Dunedin strip club has been sentenced to home detention. 

A drunken Otago man fired a crossbow at his former partner after an argument, a court has heard. 

A Dunedin woman who had an eight-day affair with her father has been discharged without conviction. 

The man accused of murdering Gurjit Singh will remain behind bars as his new lawyer comes to grips with the case.