Tracey Roxburgh

After a rallying cry from Queenstown’s mountain biking community, the world-renowned Gorge Road Jump Park has been saved at the eleventh hour.

​A Waitaki teen who allegedly stomped on the windscreens of six Queenstown police patrol vehicles, and one officer’s private vehicle, shattering them, and used a road cone to damage another officer’s car will appear in court next month.

On the 256th day, he arrived. It's been just over seven months since Kris Faafoi was handed the immigration portfolio, and 1012 days since Queenstown has had a visit from an immigration minister. Tomorrow that changes.