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November 28, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Participants at one of Dan Hooker’s fight events. youtube Organised backyard fights are nothing new, having returned to the spotlight in recent months since UFC star Dan “The Hangman” Hooker hosted the inaugural “King of the Streets”. The 32-man, one minute fist-fight tournament in Auckland prompted New Zealand’s Boxing Coaches Association ... <a title="Backyard Gang Wars: Thuggery or a way to heal, doco asks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/28/backyard-gang-wars-thuggery-or-a-way-to-heal-doco-asks/" aria-label="Read more about Backyard Gang Wars: Thuggery or a way to heal, doco asks">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Some of the latest coloured sand products to be recalled over asbestos fears. (File photo) Supplied Riddled with anxiety, no sleep and no answers – some parents are worrying about about what the long-term impact of exposure to asbestos-contaminated children’s coloured play sand could be. Over the past two weeks, there’s ... <a title="Parents fear long-term impacts of asbestos-contaminated coloured play sand exposure" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/28/parents-fear-long-term-impacts-of-asbestos-contaminated-coloured-play-sand-exposure/" aria-label="Read more about Parents fear long-term impacts of asbestos-contaminated coloured play sand exposure">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The parents of Caleb Moefa’auo, Fereti Moefaauo and Justine Lauese are hoping the inquest into his death will bring changes into how individuals with mental disorders are treated while on remand. Nick Monro The family of a man who died after being pepper sprayed in prison says properly funded specialised training ... <a title="Man who died after being pepper sprayed ‘deserved humanity and protection’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/28/man-who-died-after-being-pepper-sprayed-deserved-humanity-and-protection/" aria-label="Read more about Man who died after being pepper sprayed ‘deserved humanity and protection’">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand An NZ Super Netball franchise may have low appeal in Australia. AAP / www.photosport.nz Netball Australia hopes to expand its Suncorp Super Netball (SSN) league and is open to an expression of interest from Netball New Zealand. While any league expansion is still subject to Netball Australia board approval, it has ... <a title="Australia’s Super Netball expansion bid open to Netball NZ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/28/australias-super-netball-expansion-bid-open-to-netball-nz/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s Super Netball expansion bid open to Netball NZ">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Australian tattoo artists Kyle Pearson and Bobbie Dazzler. ROBIN MARTIN / RNZ “Just walk up and get a tattoo,” that’s the advice the organiser of the Bepanthen New Zealand Tattoo & Art Festival is giving to New Zealanders this weekend. Between 4000 and 6000 people weer expected to cram into the ... <a title="‘Walk up and get a tattoo’: New Zealand Tattoo and Art Festival returns to New Plymouth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/28/walk-up-and-get-a-tattoo-new-zealand-tattoo-and-art-festival-returns-to-new-plymouth/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Walk up and get a tattoo’: New Zealand Tattoo and Art Festival returns to New Plymouth">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Leah Mercer, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, Curtin University Daniel J Grant Following a year in the life of an “ordinary” woman, Carol, Andrea Gibbs’ second play for Black Swan State Theatre Company is a real original. Moving between moments in front of the curtain and scenes ... <a title="Andrea Gibbs’ Carol: a heartfelt Christmas tale in which comedy and crisis collide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/28/andrea-gibbs-carol-a-heartfelt-christmas-tale-in-which-comedy-and-crisis-collide-268648/" aria-label="Read more about Andrea Gibbs’ Carol: a heartfelt Christmas tale in which comedy and crisis collide">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The extraordinary Brittany Higgins saga, probably one of the biggest political scandal of our time and devastating for multiple people, returned this week to the margin of public attention when one of the legal cases was in the Federal Court. ... <a title="View from The Hill: Two women intent on vindication ensure Higgins affair haunts Labor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/28/view-from-the-hill-two-women-intent-on-vindication-ensure-higgins-affair-haunts-labor-269916/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Two women intent on vindication ensure Higgins affair haunts Labor">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Some trucking firms no longer import vehicles with cardan shaft parkbrakes. siwakorn / 123RF NZ Transport Agency memo to minister says braking system linked to six deaths not inherently unsafe Father of man who died due to a brake failure says he’ll keep pushing for more action Driver had to jump ... <a title="NZ Transport Agency assures Minister Chris Bishop braking system not inherently unsafe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/28/nz-transport-agency-assures-minister-chris-bishop-braking-system-not-inherently-unsafe/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Transport Agency assures Minister Chris Bishop braking system not inherently unsafe">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Black Caps white ball captain Mitch Santner. PHOTOSPORT Two of the biggest names in the Black Caps have backed a proposed T20 franchise competition in New Zealand. RNZ understands a bid by a private consortium to establish a new T20 competition has led to a power struggle over the future shape ... <a title="Black Caps captain Mitch Santner wants T20 franchise league in NZ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/28/black-caps-captain-mitch-santner-wants-t20-franchise-league-in-nz/" aria-label="Read more about Black Caps captain Mitch Santner wants T20 franchise league in NZ">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand More than 7000 e-scooter accidents have been reported this year. RNZ / Marika Khabazi National MP Catherine Wedd has branded e-scooter rules “outdated”, and is spearheading a campaign to take them off the footpath and into dedicated bike lanes wherever possible. Accident Compensation Corporation figures show claims for e-scooter injuries have ... <a title="National MP Catherine Wedd leads e-scooter rules revamp" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/28/national-mp-catherine-wedd-leads-e-scooter-rules-revamp/" aria-label="Read more about National MP Catherine Wedd leads e-scooter rules revamp">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Anna Adams, is the Counsel assisting the Coroner for bereaved families and survivors. (File photo) RNZ/Calvin Samuel The first phase of the coronial inquest looking into the 2019 Whakaari/White Island eruption has drawn to an end. Twenty-two people died and 25 people were injured, most of them seriously, after they were ... <a title="Findings from first phase of Whakaari inquest ‘valuable’, but questions remain for bereaved families" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/28/findings-from-first-phase-of-whakaari-inquest-valuable-but-questions-remain-for-bereaved-families/" aria-label="Read more about Findings from first phase of Whakaari inquest ‘valuable’, but questions remain for bereaved families">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / REECE BAKER A power pole and lines are blocking State Highway 36 near Tauranga after a crash. A car hit the power pole between Taumata Road and Oropi Road Friday afternoon. Police say the driver was not serious injuried. The highway will be blocked until at least 6pm and ... <a title="SH36 blocked after car hits power pole" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/28/sh36-blocked-after-car-hits-power-pole/" aria-label="Read more about SH36 blocked after car hits power pole">Read more</a>
