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November 19, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Screenshot / Google Maps A controversial outside application to change an Auckland school to a charter school has been abandoned. Bangerz Education and Wellbeing Trust and a former board member, Siaosi Gavet, were behind the bid. They argued Kelston Boys’ High is violent, has low achievement and attendance rates and has ... <a title="Kelston Boys’ High School charter takeover bid abandoned" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/kelston-boys-high-school-charter-takeover-bid-abandoned/" aria-label="Read more about Kelston Boys’ High School charter takeover bid abandoned">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Police Commissioner Richard Chambers ordered a “rapid review” of police’s information security controls after the McSkimming case came to light. RNZ / Samuel Rillstone Twenty police staff are under investigation in relation to “misuse and inappropriate content”, police have now confirmed. Police say they cannot rule out criminal investigations into the ... <a title="Twenty police staff investigated over ‘misuse and inappropriate content’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/twenty-police-staff-investigated-over-misuse-and-inappropriate-content/" aria-label="Read more about Twenty police staff investigated over ‘misuse and inappropriate content’">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Budiman Minasny, Professor in Soil-Landscape Modelling, University of Sydney Meaghan Skinner Photography/Getty Producing and distributing food is responsible for roughly a third of global greenhouse gas emissions. But food systems are highly vulnerable to the droughts, floods, fires and heatwaves made more intense by climate change. Agriculture ... <a title="Nature, carbon, nutrition: 3 ways farming can shift from climate culprit to solution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/nature-carbon-nutrition-3-ways-farming-can-shift-from-climate-culprit-to-solution-268204/" aria-label="Read more about Nature, carbon, nutrition: 3 ways farming can shift from climate culprit to solution">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Rajinder has been accused of murdering Gurjit Singh in Dunedin in January last year. RNZ The sister of a man accused of killing Dunedin’s Gurjit Singh says he was not upset when he discovered the woman who rejected him had married Singh instead, a court has heard. A 35-year-old, known only ... <a title="Gurjit Singh murder trial: Sister says murder-accused was not upset over love triangle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/gurjit-singh-murder-trial-sister-says-murder-accused-was-not-upset-over-love-triangle/" aria-label="Read more about Gurjit Singh murder trial: Sister says murder-accused was not upset over love triangle">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Smoke seen from the field at St Kentigern College in Pakuranga. Supplied A two-storey classroom block at Auckland’s St Kentigern College in Pakuranga caught fire on Wednesday afternoon, leading to a full school evacuation. About 20 firefighters attended the incident after Fire and Emergency said they were called to the school ... <a title="A two-storey classroom fire was promptly put out at Saint Kentigern College" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/a-two-storey-classroom-fire-was-promptly-put-out-at-saint-kentigern-college/" aria-label="Read more about A two-storey classroom fire was promptly put out at Saint Kentigern College">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand A man who was travelling on State Highway 25 towards Coromandel town this morning said he saw rocks, small slips and “spontaneous waterfall” along the way. Mieke Kregting took a video of what appeared to be a landslide along SH25. The video showed rocks and debris spilling onto the highway, and ... <a title="Weather: Rockfall on highway near Coromandel township" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/weather-rockfall-on-highway-near-coromandel-township/" aria-label="Read more about Weather: Rockfall on highway near Coromandel township">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa M. Given, Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University Online gaming giant Roblox has just announced it will start checking users’ ages from early December in an attempt to stop children and teenagers talking with adults. In what the company ... <a title="Roblox set to start checking people’s ages. But it will need to do more to keep kids safe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/roblox-set-to-start-checking-peoples-ages-but-it-will-need-to-do-more-to-keep-kids-safe-270138/" aria-label="Read more about Roblox set to start checking people’s ages. But it will need to do more to keep kids safe">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on November 19, 2025.
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November 19, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The ramp on the Connemara is stuck and preventing passengers from disembarking. Supplied/Nick Simcock The Bluebridge ferry, Connemara, is stuck in Picton after an issue with the ramp has left passengers unable to disembark. The ferry left Wellington shortly after 8am and arrived in Picton just before midday. Passenger Nick Simcock ... <a title="Passengers stuck on Bluebridge ferry due to ramp issue" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/passengers-stuck-on-bluebridge-ferry-due-to-ramp-issue/" aria-label="Read more about Passengers stuck on Bluebridge ferry due to ramp issue">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The government’s Cook Strait ferry project will cost less than $2 billion, says the Rail Minister. Winston Peters announced in March the government would buy two new Interislander ferries to replace the current ageing fleet. The new ships, which are 200 metres long and 28 metres wide, have 11 decks. Supplied/ ... <a title="New Cook Strait ferries won’t cost more than $2b, Rail Minister vows" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/new-cook-strait-ferries-wont-cost-more-than-2b-rail-minister-vows/" aria-label="Read more about New Cook Strait ferries won’t cost more than $2b, Rail Minister vows">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ismail Albayrak, Professor of Islam and Catholic Muslim Relations, Australian Catholic University The Mosque at Hergott Springs, photographed around 1884. State Library South Australia From 1860 to 1930, an estimated 3,000 people came to Australia from Afghanistan, Baluchistan, Punjab, Sindh and the northern part of Pakistan. Still ... <a title="How Australia’s first outback mosque was built 600km north of Adelaide, 150 years ago" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/how-australias-first-outback-mosque-was-built-600km-north-of-adelaide-150-years-ago-261853/" aria-label="Read more about How Australia’s first outback mosque was built 600km north of Adelaide, 150 years ago">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Die-hard Metallica fans have been queuing in the rain for hours before Wednesday night’s sold-out concert at Eden Park in Auckland even starts. The city and its hotels are heaving – accommodation is sold out, with the show expected to yield 40,000 visitor nights. Organisers of the band’s only NZ show ... <a title="Pumped up Metallica fans descend on Auckland" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/pumped-up-metallica-fans-descend-on-auckland/" aria-label="Read more about Pumped up Metallica fans descend on Auckland">Read more</a>
