Timothy Brown

Police may have ''technically'' made the right call by not charging a drunken 21-year-old who attacked a Wakari woman and vandalised her home, but their response was ''insensitive'', a legal expert says.

A Wakari woman is distressed a woman who attacked her and vandalised her home during a drunken rampage will not face charges.

A jewellery thief ran a red light, narrowly missing a bus and pedestrians, as he fled a central Dunedin heist with a $2500 ring, police say.

A prison reform campaigner is calling for the police decision not to prosecute those charged with the care of remand prisoner Jai Davis to be reviewed after internal police emails revealed a ''significantly substandard'' report was used in the decision-making process.

A bungling burglar woke cancer sufferers by smashing a glass door at the Cancer Society's Daffodil House during a ''disturbing'' raid.

Police are still in the ''very early'' stages of the investigation into the crash that killed 18-year-old Nakita May Strange and it is unclear when charges will be laid.

The father of a 5-year-old Oamaru girl killed by a tourist driver is pleased the High Court has upheld a sentence of imprisonment, but says nothing will change the life sentence his family faces.

An Otago prisoner says it took days to get medical treatment after discovering he had swallowed metal fragments during a meal at Corrections' Milburn facility.

A 19-year-old Dunedin man will face court after a teenager was dragged down George St after an early morning hit-and-run.

Friends and family have paid tribute to the ''beautiful, vibrant and feisty young woman'' who died after a car crash near Mt Cook on Monday.

A ''serious incident'' closed the South Dunedin PostShop yesterday.

A fire which burnt out a car in Concord yesterday morning is being treated as suspicious, police say.

Otago's top policeman is moving on at the end of this week.

An elderly Kaitangata woman had a lucky escape after the car she was driving left the road at close to 100kmh, before travelling 80m and ploughing into a tree.

A Palmerston hunter used his T shirt and duct tape as a tourniquet before hobbling more than 200m to meet his rescuers after impaling his leg on a stick in the Maungatua Range.

A Gore man was pepper sprayed after becoming aggressive with police in South Otago, police say.

Two Dunedin boys have discovered the best place to view the night sky in the city, collecting accolades and praise in the process.