Timothy Brown

A senior policeman has lauded a Dunedin judge for refusing to allow a student to escape conviction for couch burning.

Police are searching for a man they believe is responsible for breaking a tourist's jaw during an attack in central Queenstown.

Bar owners and police fear it is only a matter of time until someone fatally overdoses as drugs flood the student party scene.

The Hospitality Association has welcomed moves to allow bars to open for Rugby World Cup games.

A recent addition to Owaka museum's war exhibits is a homecoming of sorts.

Police believe a hunted man is evading them with help from the public.

A Dunedin man's ''sordid'' affair has ruined his marriage, destroyed his family's financial security and caused his defrauded wife to question the past decade of her life.

Drugs which first presented problems for New Zealand authorities in the 1980s and '90s are making a comeback. But the modern drugs dealer is likely to be found behind a computer screen rather than on a street corner. Timothy Brown investigates.

The creator of a Facebook ''party'' themed on a harassed Dunedin woman says the event is intended to be ''harmless'' fun and he will happily remove it if it is causing distress.

Two bandanna-clad men have been charged with disorderly behaviour likely to cause violence after going to Taieri College during school time to confront a pupil, police say.

The cost of damage from last month's flooding of low-lying parts of Dunedin is about $30 million and rising.

A driver involved in a horror crash rushed to give CPR to a dying teenager who lay unconscious in the other car's back seat.

The tourist responsible for the death of Oamaru 5-year-old Ruby Jay Marris has been jailed.

A Coroner has criticised police and the Department of Corrections for their roles in the death of remand prisoner Jai Davis at a South Otago jail.

The mother of slain siblings Bradley and Ellen Livingstone refuses to accept that authorities could not have saved her children's lives.

Otago's top officer says he was shaken by the deaths of two children killed at their Dunedin home and questioned whether police did enough to protect them.

A Dunedin woman has laid a complaint with the Human Rights Commission about Dunedin's new BYO accord and what she labels as its sexist limits.

A Portobello Rd resident is threatening legal action against a Dunedin city councillor amid claims of what he calls ''bullying'' in a neighbourhood dispute.