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November 21, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / REECE BAKER Two schools and a medical centre in the Bay of Plenty town of Katikati are in lockdown as police hunt for a person of interest in the town. Katikati College posted on its social media shortly before 1pm that it’s been asked by police to go into ... <a title="Katikati schools, medical centre in lockdown as police hunt for person of interest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/katikati-schools-medical-centre-in-lockdown-as-police-hunt-for-person-of-interest/" aria-label="Read more about Katikati schools, medical centre in lockdown as police hunt for person of interest">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Just after midday Christchurch was at 28.7C, the hottest place in Aotearoa. rafaelbenari/123RF While there was wet weather in parts of the country on Friday, forecasters say things should clear up for most at the weekend. But that does not necessarily mean it will be warm, despite summer’s approach. Just after ... <a title="Weather: Christchurch leads the way as summer arrives early" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/weather-christchurch-leads-the-way-as-summer-arrives-early/" aria-label="Read more about Weather: Christchurch leads the way as summer arrives early">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Students leave flowers and paper cranes on Kevin Hu’s desk at Takapuna Grammar School in Auckland. Supplied The death of a beloved Auckland maths teacher has sent shock waves through the Chinese community. Students and parents paid tribute to Kevin Hu, head of calculus at Takapuna Grammar School, who died in ... <a title="Community mourns death of beloved Takapuna Grammar School teacher" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/community-mourns-death-of-beloved-takapuna-grammar-school-teacher/" aria-label="Read more about Community mourns death of beloved Takapuna Grammar School teacher">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tijl Grootswagers, ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience, Western Sydney University Every November, Black Friday arrives with big claims of massive savings and “one-day-only” deals. We are bombarded with offers that seem too good to pass up. But beneath all this lies something far more ... <a title="Here’s what Black Friday sales shopping does to your brain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/heres-what-black-friday-sales-shopping-does-to-your-brain-269591/" aria-label="Read more about Here’s what Black Friday sales shopping does to your brain">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Te Manahou Mackay says she started using puberty blockers at age 13-14 after “extensive” discussions with psychiatrists and therapists and nurse practitioners. Supplied A model who used puberty blockers as a teenager says the government is “cursing an entire generation of young transgender women to social stigma” after it halted new ... <a title="Halt to puberty blockers curses ‘young transgender women to stigma’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/halt-to-puberty-blockers-curses-young-transgender-women-to-stigma/" aria-label="Read more about Halt to puberty blockers curses ‘young transgender women to stigma’">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Nigel Hampton KC says he can’t say who the charges would be laid against, without breaching confidentiality. Iain McGregor/The Press The lawyer for Pike River families says police now have enough evidence to lay manslaughter charges over the disaster. Nigel Hampton KC said police believe they have evidence showing specific acts ... <a title="Pike River deaths: Enough evidence for manslaughter charges – lawyer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/pike-river-deaths-enough-evidence-for-manslaughter-charges-lawyer/" aria-label="Read more about Pike River deaths: Enough evidence for manslaughter charges – lawyer">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand This screen grab shows emergency crews battling a fire that broke out at a pavilion at the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belem, in Brazil, on November 20, 2025. AFP / AFPTV A New Zealand disability advocate caught up in the fire at the annual COP climate meeting in Brazil ... <a title="No support as Kiwi disabled delegates flee COP30 fire in Brazil" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/no-support-as-kiwi-disabled-delegates-flee-cop30-fire-in-brazil/" aria-label="Read more about No support as Kiwi disabled delegates flee COP30 fire in Brazil">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand David Seymour, Christopher Luxon and Winston Peters. RNZ Analysis: New Zealand politics has long acknowledged a truth of coalition life – sooner or later, everyone swallows a dead rat. Less examined is the art of spitting one back up. This term has already delivered its fair share of deceased squeakers. National ... <a title="Dead rats and discord: What next in the Peters-Seymour stoush?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/dead-rats-and-discord-what-next-in-the-peters-seymour-stoush/" aria-label="Read more about Dead rats and discord: What next in the Peters-Seymour stoush?">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Pacific climate leaders are disappointed that Australia has lost the bid to host the United Nations Climate Conference, COP31, in 2026. Palau’s President Surangel Whipps Jr said he was “deeply disappointed” by the outcome. Australia had campaigned for years for the meeting to be held in its country, and ... <a title="Pacific climate leaders ‘deeply disappointed’ as Australia loses bid to host COP31" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/pacific-climate-leaders-deeply-disappointed-as-australia-loses-bid-to-host-cop31/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific climate leaders ‘deeply disappointed’ as Australia loses bid to host COP31">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A rift within New Caledonia’s pro-independence movement has further widened after the second component of the “moderates”, the UPM (Progressist Union in Melanesia), has officially announced it has now left the once united Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS). The UPM announcement, at a press ... <a title="New Caledonia’s pro-independence split widens – another party quits FLNKS" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/new-caledonias-pro-independence-split-widens-another-party-quits-flnks/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia’s pro-independence split widens – another party quits FLNKS">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Mayor Andrew Little says the council needs to establish why several of its projects have gone way over their budgets. RNZ / Mark Papalii Wellington’s mayor says a review of the Golden Mile project will give the council an opportunity to take another look at what the project was trying to ... <a title="Concern over ‘cost blowouts’ behind pause on Wellington’s Golden Mile project" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/concern-over-cost-blowouts-behind-pause-on-wellingtons-golden-mile-project/" aria-label="Read more about Concern over ‘cost blowouts’ behind pause on Wellington’s Golden Mile project">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Police Minister Mark Mitchell RNZ / Mark Papalii The police minister says the correct process was followed by his electorate staff who forwarded emails containing allegations about former Deputy Commissioner Jevon McSkimming to his ministerial office, months before he was made aware. The Independent Police Conduct Authority’s report found ” the ... <a title="Police Minister’s staff replied to Jevon McSkimming accuser’s emails" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/police-ministers-staff-replied-to-jevon-mcskimming-accusers-emails/" aria-label="Read more about Police Minister’s staff replied to Jevon McSkimming accuser’s emails">Read more</a>
