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24 Jan 2020 7:33pm News:
Southern

Update: Missing teenager, St Clair Beach

Police have suspended the search this evening for a teenage boy who went into the water yesterday at St Clair Beach, Dunedin, and failed to return to shore. Police are working with Surf ... More

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24 Jan 2020 12:39pm News:
Southern

Update: Water incident, Dunedin

Police are today continuing the search for a teenage boy who went into the water yesterday at St Clair Beach, Dunedin, and failed to return to shore. Police are working with Surf Life ... More

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23 Jan 2020 6:55pm News:
Southern

Water incident, Dunedin

Ambulance and Police were called to the south end of St Clair Beach in Dunedin around 4:30pm today to reports of a male in trouble in the water. A search is underway for the male, assisted ... More

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22 Jan 2020 11:16am News:
Southern

Update - bus crash, Glenorchy-Queenstown Road

Please attribute to Inspector Olaf Jensen, Otago Lakes Area Commander A 32-year-old man has been charged with careless driving causing injury following the bus crash on the Glenorchy- ... More

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21 Jan 2020 6:59pm News:
Southern

Name release - Mt Earnslaw fall death

Police are now able to name the man who died following a fall on Mt Earnslaw on Saturday 18 January. He was Paul James Laurie, 61, of Brooklyn, Tasman. Initial indications are that ... More

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21 Jan 2020 4:50pm News:
Southern

Bus crash, Queenstown

Attributable to Inspector Olaf Jensen, Otago Lakes Area Commander: Two people have been airlifted to hospital in serious condition out of Queenstown following a single- ... More

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