Rob Kidd

A drunk student drove through a police breath-test checkpoint and took them on a high-speed chase through Balclutha, a court has heard.

After a period free of alcohol, a woman decided to end her abstinence and "see how it worked out".

Sometimes justice is served in a courtroom; other times it requires action outside the court to redress the balance.

A Dunedin man who threatened to eat his ex-girlfriend and ''rip her apart'' has been jailed for a year.

A sparks flew from the rims on which Eruera Matene drove around Balclutha, he hurled bottles from his window at his pursuers.

A Dunedin sex offender who befriended single mothers to gain access to their children will be behind bars for at least another 22 months.

After masturbating in a Dunedin department store, a man made more "disturbing'' disclosures of his dark thoughts, a court has heard

A Milton mother who crashed and caused her son serious injuries claims the methamphetamine in her blood came from her drink being spiked on a Tinder date.

A man who threatened to carry out a shooting at the University of Otago, targeting "rich medical students'', was huffing solvents at the time, a court has heard.

How much is a $20 Lotto ticket worth if it only wins $1?

Wayne Allan McNatty walked into a Dunedin dairy wearing a wig and sunglasses, brandishing a meat cleaver.

A disgraced former community board member has been convicted of drink-driving.

A graduate from the 100th class to complete a prison drug programme will no longer be a "drug-fuelled maniac on the streets", he says.

A disgraced Invercargill police officer who racially abused an Asian security guard has been awarded $11,250 after top brass botched his disciplinary probe.

A judge has been forced to withdraw from a domestic-violence case because his wife had regular coffee dates with ones of the parties involved.

A judge has been forced to withdraw from a domestic-violence case because his wife had regular coffee dates with ones of the parties involved.

A truck driver who ploughed through a pedestrian crossing into a schoolboy got some support from an unlikely source at sentencing.

It took a Waihola handyman 49 years to get his first conviction; his second was prompted just minutes after the first offence, driven by a desperation to avoid publicity.

A Christchurch man who came to Dunedin and tagged three buildings has objected to doing community work, because he is ''a very busy person with work''.

Two men who attacked a fellow inmate in the recreation yard have been sentenced to further jail time.