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Sexual assaults in Queenstown increasing - police Fri, 2 Jul 2021, 2:35PM At the launch of the Dont Guess the Yes campaign at the Queenstown police station recently. Photo / Mountain Scene Sexual assaults in Queenstown increasing - police Fri, 2 Jul 2021, 2:35PM Three days after Queenstowns cops warned hospitality workers to be vigilant over a rising number of sexual assaults, they were dealing with reports of yet another. A male was the victim of the lat...

Hon Jan Tinetti Rebecca Keoghan will be the first woman Chair of the Fire and Emergency New Zealand Board, Internal Affairs Minister Jan Tinetti announced today. “Ms Keoghan is currently the Board’s Deputy Chair – I am confident her mix of skills and experience is going to be an asset to the Board. “She has a sound understanding of rural volunteering and emergency services, brings specialist skills in health and safety, governance, risk management and culture change, and will pr...

Mountain Scene By ANNA LEASK A 20-year-old Cromwell man’s been arrested and charged with robbery following a violent attack on a ‘‘good samaritan’’ near Queenstown in March. But the alleged victim’s also being charged after cops established the attack wasn’t random. At the time, police labelled it a ‘‘cowardly attack on a well-meaning person’’ and said a  good samaritan received a fractured jaw after an assault and robbery at the Eastburn Road layby, on th...

Thu, 01/28/2021 - 11:44am meganj BUFFALO ROSE WILL perform live online for the Ripton Community Coffee House on Saturday, Feb. 6, at 7:30 p.m. Find links for viewing the concert and more at rcch.org. The Ripton Community Coffee House presents the harmony string sextet Buffalo Rose to an online concert on Saturday, Feb. 6, at 7:30 p.m., and invites everyone to enjoy the music from their comfortable, socially distanced own living room. Viewers can find links to the conc...

Mountain Scene By MATTHEW MCKEW Deadly bathsalts peddled as MDMA in Queenstown are putting young people in hospital as foreigners and others fund their time in the resort by drug dealing. Further, Queenstown’s top cop, detective senior sergeant Malcolm Inglis, says wastewater tests suggest the resort’s now the MDMA capital of New Zealand. Inglis says N-Ethylpentylone — or bathsalts — and mephedrone, commonly known as ‘M-Cat’ or ‘Meow Meow’, are being subbed in f...