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'Gutless': Man avoids jail after $11k student flat burglary

Cheylan Dawson received a home detention sentence and 200 hours' community work.

'Really, really disappointing': Trial delayed due to lack of jurors

It is understood just a third of the expected jurors showed up.

Truck ploughs into parked cars near Dunedin Airport

Police were notified of the crash early this morning.

'Fear of failure': Secondary school scraps level 1 NCEA exams

A school survey found pupils were placing pressure on themselves, afraid of failure.

Man sentenced for attacking woman, throwing phone in sea

Corey Thomas Littlejohn, 23, appeared in the Dunedin District Court on Wednesday.

Award winning musician, law student convicted for drink driving

last year, the man won the prize for best Pacific song at the Pacific Music Awards.

Man who chased police officer with tomahawk denied parole

The man said he had planned to decapitate his victim.

Man who flung partner from moving car jailed

The incident marked the end of nearly a year of offending, the court heard.

Brrrr! Chilly start across Auckland and NZ - frosty start in south

There is a southerly flow making its way across the country

Overstayer to remain behind bars till deportation

The woman had arrived in New Zealand on May 13, 2019, on a three-month visitor visa

You call this cold? Antarctica plunges to -81.7C as polar blast, rain set to hit NZ

The rain is expected to hit the country this weekend.

Meth, cash seized in raids, may be linked to gangs in Christchurch

Six people have been charged in relation to the offending.

Recidivist sex offender pulled boy's pants down in public toilet

Members of the public restrained Stephen Wilkinson as police were called to the scene.

No plan for dealing with contaminated soil on new hospital land

The toxic deposits are deemed to pose a low risk to human health.

Salvation Army hired rapist who struck again, says review clears them

Dwayne Keats got a job as a volunteer for the Salvation Army in late 2016.

Former St John medic slams 'unacceptable' wait times for ambulance

He took an injured elderly man to the hospital himself, following more than an hour wait.

Supermarket attack 'changed our lives forever' - injured couple

Vanessa Andrews and Jorge Fuenzalida were stabbed as they tried to stop the attack.

Teen tasered, arrested as public watch in central Dunedin

Several members of the public watched on as the man struggled to free himself from police.