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Month: November 2025

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Auckland community feeling optimistic shoplifting is under control

November 10, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand Woolworths Point Chevalier reduced its hours last year following safety concerns. RNZ / Jessica Hopkins Residents and business owners in Auckland’s Point Chevalier are feeling optimistic as shoplifting is finally brought under control. It comes just over a year after the local supermarket started closing early over safety concerns. On a ... <a title="Auckland community feeling optimistic shoplifting is under control" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/auckland-community-feeling-optimistic-shoplifting-is-under-control/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland community feeling optimistic shoplifting is under control">Read more</a>

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Mental health worker strangled, but NZ Health denies staffing to blame

November 10, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand Workers at North Shore Hospital’s He Puna Waiora secure mental health unit have reported multiple assaults. RNZ Another serious assault at North Shore Hospital mental health unit The PSA says staff had been pleading for help Health NZ says it added extra workers before it opened five new beds last month. ... <a title="Mental health worker strangled, but NZ Health denies staffing to blame" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/mental-health-worker-strangled-but-nz-health-denies-staffing-to-blame/" aria-label="Read more about Mental health worker strangled, but NZ Health denies staffing to blame">Read more</a>

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How a rural bootcamp is boosting mental health

November 10, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand Car headlights cut through the darkness of an early morning bootcamp. Ke-Xin Li It’s 6am in Pukehina – a rural community down the coast from Tauranga. Leaves are rustling against the gentle breeze as tyres crunch through the gravel driveway. The basketball court – surrounded by kiwifruit orchards and dairy farms ... <a title="How a rural bootcamp is boosting mental health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/how-a-rural-bootcamp-is-boosting-mental-health/" aria-label="Read more about How a rural bootcamp is boosting mental health">Read more</a>

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Mental health in-patient killed herself after being given leave to go home for Christmas

November 10, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand Mental health in-patient killed herself after being given leave to go home for Christmas Family unaware of previous attempt and ongoing risks Health NZ says it’s introduced new protocols for the inpatient unit at Palmerston North Hospital on leave, discharge planning, documentation and communication with families Coroner’s recommendations include review of ... <a title="Mental health in-patient killed herself after being given leave to go home for Christmas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/mental-health-in-patient-killed-herself-after-being-given-leave-to-go-home-for-christmas/" aria-label="Read more about Mental health in-patient killed herself after being given leave to go home for Christmas">Read more</a>

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COP30: NZ must commit to buying offshore credits to meet Paris target, climate experts say

November 10, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand World leaders gather for the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belem, Para State, Brazil. AFP / LUDOVIC MARIN Climate scientists and advocates say the government needs to come clean on how New Zealand plans to meet its first international climate target. A decade on from the Paris Agreement, and as ... <a title="COP30: NZ must commit to buying offshore credits to meet Paris target, climate experts say" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/cop30-nz-must-commit-to-buying-offshore-credits-to-meet-paris-target-climate-experts-say/" aria-label="Read more about COP30: NZ must commit to buying offshore credits to meet Paris target, climate experts say">Read more</a>

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‘A fantastic start’- support for government’s plan to combat methamphetamine use

November 10, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand Methamphetamine use had increased significantly and meth seized in New Zealand and offshore had increased by 266 percent over the past five years. Supplied / Customs There’s widespread support for the government’s new action plan to combat methamphetamine use, with the Drug Foundation commending its “health focused interventions”. A mental wellness ... <a title="‘A fantastic start’- support for government’s plan to combat methamphetamine use" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/a-fantastic-start-support-for-governments-plan-to-combat-methamphetamine-use/" aria-label="Read more about ‘A fantastic start’- support for government’s plan to combat methamphetamine use">Read more</a>

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Nark told he’d be ‘well looked after’ in exchange for prison beating evidence, records show

November 10, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand Detective Chief Inspector Peter Jenkinson Metro Magazine Former detectives have been left “stumbling for words” by police reports of a secret meeting in 1985 between a Department of Justice official and the key Crown witness in the murder prosecution of Ross Appelgren. Appelgren was convicted of killing fellow inmate Darcy Te ... <a title="Nark told he’d be ‘well looked after’ in exchange for prison beating evidence, records show" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/nark-told-hed-be-well-looked-after-in-exchange-for-prison-beating-evidence-records-show/" aria-label="Read more about Nark told he’d be ‘well looked after’ in exchange for prison beating evidence, records show">Read more</a>

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Locals fear ‘truly devastating’ Tongariro National Park fire

November 10, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand [L1] Waimarino business owners hope for forecast rain [L1] Concern tourists might cancel bookings [L1] Wall of smoke provides spectacular but unwelcome backdrop to village. A wall of smoke from the Tongariro National Park fire is providing a spectacular but worrying vista for a central plateau village. The blaze has burned ... <a title="Locals fear ‘truly devastating’ Tongariro National Park fire" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/locals-fear-truly-devastating-tongariro-national-park-fire/" aria-label="Read more about Locals fear ‘truly devastating’ Tongariro National Park fire">Read more</a>

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Which banks most often have the lowest interest rates?

November 10, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand Westpac had the joint lowest rates advertised 54.5 percent of the time. File photo. RNZ Which bank consistently offers the lowest advertised home loan rates? And does it actually matter? Data compiled by economists Ed McKnight from Opes Partners shows that since August 2023, across all home loan rate terms, Westpac ... <a title="Which banks most often have the lowest interest rates?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/which-banks-most-often-have-the-lowest-interest-rates/" aria-label="Read more about Which banks most often have the lowest interest rates?">Read more</a>

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Caitlin Johnstone: The US empire keeps getting creepier

November 10, 2025

Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Secretary of War™ Pete Hegseth said during a speech on Friday that the US is at “a 1939 moment” of “mounting urgency” in which “enemies gather, threats grow,” adding, “We are not building for peacetime. We are pivoting the Pentagon and our ... <a title="Caitlin Johnstone: The US empire keeps getting creepier" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/caitlin-johnstone-the-us-empire-keeps-getting-creepier/" aria-label="Read more about Caitlin Johnstone: The US empire keeps getting creepier">Read more</a>

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Staff member injured at Youth Justice residence in Auckland

November 10, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand Korowai Manaaki Youth Justice residence RNZ / Kim Baker Wilson A staff member has been injured at a Youth Justice facility this evening. Police were called to a report of an assault at a Kiwi Tamaki Road address in Auckland about 7.30pm. Auckland’s Korowai Manaaki Youth Justice residence is on the ... <a title="Staff member injured at Youth Justice residence in Auckland" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/staff-member-injured-at-youth-justice-residence-in-auckland/" aria-label="Read more about Staff member injured at Youth Justice residence in Auckland">Read more</a>

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The ‘golden tonsils’ of John Laws fall silent, aged 90

November 10, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne John Laws was one of the most influential, commercially successful yet polarising figures in the history of Australian radio broadcasting. He has died at the age of 90. He was among a handful of ... <a title="The ‘golden tonsils’ of John Laws fall silent, aged 90" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/the-golden-tonsils-of-john-laws-fall-silent-aged-90-216826/" aria-label="Read more about The ‘golden tonsils’ of John Laws fall silent, aged 90">Read more</a>