Rob Kidd

A woman who took the body of her friend to a rural location and left him to rot has been declined parole at her first attempt.

A Dunedin sex offender and former youth-group leader will be released on parole today while the boy he abused 13 years ago remains a recluse who "hates the world".

Otago's hopes for the national book awards rest on the shoulders of a punk-rock legend.

A veteran Dunedin offender with more than 160 convictions has earned an unlikely reprieve after an impassioned speech in court.

A Mosgiel man’s spiral into the "party scene" resulted in him being an accessory to a $400,000 import of ecstasy, a court has heard.

A woman who made expletive-laden anti-Muslim comments in an Octagon bar says she is not a racist.

A gang enforcer who repeatedly beat his cellmate as part of a prospect initiation will remain behind bars for at least another year.

Two inmates who brutally attacked a fellow prisoner, exacting more than 70 blows in less than a minute, have failed in a bid to have their sentences reduced.

When Jimmy Desmond John Lodge was dragged away from his girlfriend’s father after beating him with an extendible baton, he said he did not care about the jail time.

A Dunedin man described as being on a decade-long "merry-go-round" of domestic violence has been jailed for more than a year.

A Waihola sex offender who abused two boys and supplied them with drugs has been released on parole with 14 months of his sentence remaining.

A woman who committed three armed robberies, which netted her nearly $40,000, says she used gambling to escape her problems.

Two men have been hit in the pocket after flouting the rules governing whitebait fishing in the Clutha River.