Crimeline
Police are warning both overseas and Kiwi drivers to make sure they take regular breaks during long trips, or change drivers if they’re tired, after two separate accidents in two days this week in the Wakatipu when drivers appear to have fallen asleep at the wheel.
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Two American hunters had to be rescued, plucked from tricky, rocky terrain in the Upper South Wye Creek area early on Tuesday last week (10 February) after becoming exhausted, dehydrated and disoriented with insufficient food and water.
When Marty Newell arrived in Queenstown in late 1994, his weekly rent was just $75 a week and his Pizza Hut wages not much better.
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Innocent until proven guilty is the bedrock of human rights but in the one-woman play, Prima Facie, Tessa Ensler learns the hard way that this isn’t always the case.
Te Atamira’s latest exhibition opens on Tuesday, Let the Honey Soak Through. Inspired by bee networks and their relationship with the environment, the installation will include a range of works exploring the patterns that bees create to sustain their lives, replicated by human systems, hiveware, keepers and agricultural formations.
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