A 27-year-old man has had a string of charges added to an initial assault charge after allegedly threatening to shoot police in Mosgiel earlier this week.
While snowfall after a spell of warm weather was not the ideal start to spring, it could not have been better timing for firefighters battling a large blaze near Middlemarch.
A 27-year-old man will appear in court in Dunedin this morning after allegedly assaulting a supermarket worker and threatening to shoot police in Mosgiel.
Fires across the South stretched resources and frustrated firefighters in increasingly windy conditions yesterday as blazes burned from Mataura to the Mackenzie District.