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Marlborough Police arrested a 28-year-old man in connection to a recent string of burglaries and thefts from vehicles in the Blenheim area.

The decline in tourism stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic could have a profound effect on New Zealand’s Queenstown Lakes District, its mayor warned.

New Zealand Police said they arrested 12 people following a protest at Te Papa, where parts of the Treaty of Waitangi exhibition were defaced.