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With a Democratic/Progressive supermajority in the Vermont Legislature this session, environmental advocates in the state are hoping that aggressive action on climate legislation will be passed during the biennium.

Despite spending more than 13 years behind bars, a Dunedin killer is still blaming his victim for his frenzied attack.

In 2009, as a teenager, Alistair McFarlane robbed the Mosgiel Mini Mart of $350. Thirteen years later he robbed the same dairy of $3455.

A Dunedin hairdresser who stabbed her friend to death and buried her in a shallow grave in the backyard can't explain why she did it.

A man behind a highly sophisticated cannabis cultivation of nearly 1000 plants has had two years slashed off his sentence.

A shearer who was banned from contacting his ex-partner drove 60km to viciously beat her with a rolling pin until it broke, a court has heard.
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The inquest into the death of a Dunedin man after he received the Covid-19 vaccine has been concluded with a reminder that Rory Nairn's death has not been forgotten.

The parents of a Dunedin student who committed suicide have spent nearly 10 years desperately seeking answers.
Eleven days of evidence heard in the Dunedin

A Dunedin woman who has repeatedly terrorised her mother has been barred from contacting her for a year.
Anita Dorothy Cumming, 43, admitted to another bre

Giovanna (Gigi) Fenster (born 1963/64) is a South African-born New Zealand author, creative writing teacher, and law lecturer. Life Fenster was (...)