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December 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / Samuel Rillstone Greater Wellington Regional Council is urging the government to lower its English language requirements for visas to avoid a bus driver shortage. In 2022, 59 Metlink weekday bus services were suspended due to a lack of drivers – significantly cutting back reliability on the Wellington region’s bus ... <a title="Warning of bus driver shortage if immigration settings not changed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/warning-of-bus-driver-shortage-if-immigration-settings-not-changed/" aria-label="Read more about Warning of bus driver shortage if immigration settings not changed">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand A police team member on a mountain in Fiordland. Supplied / Police A search of the route taken by two missing climbers on Aoraki/Mt Cook has turned up no sign of the pair. Bad weather has hampered the search for the climbers, who have been missing since Monday, but conditions improved ... <a title="Two climbers still missing at Mt Cook, two who died named" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/two-climbers-still-missing-at-mt-cook-two-who-died-named/" aria-label="Read more about Two climbers still missing at Mt Cook, two who died named">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Summer in Eastbourne, Wellington. RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King Christmas day celebrations may need to be inside for the parts of the country, as a forecaster says it may not be a nice, settled story that many of us are hoping for. With only eight sleeps until Christmas, we are in the ... <a title="What the weather forecast is looking like for Christmas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/what-the-weather-forecast-is-looking-like-for-christmas/" aria-label="Read more about What the weather forecast is looking like for Christmas">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rikke Louise Bundgaard-Nielsen, Senior Lecturer, School of Languages and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne Cristina Gottardi/Unsplash Effective communication lies at the heart of human connection. It helps us collaborate with each other, solve problems and build relationships. And communicating clearly is a major consideration for most of ... <a title="Some words affect us more than others. It boils down to how they sound" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/some-words-affect-us-more-than-others-it-boils-down-to-how-they-sound-264677/" aria-label="Read more about Some words affect us more than others. It boils down to how they sound">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hinze Hogendoorn, Professor, Visual Time Perception, Queensland University of Technology Jean-Guillaume Starnini/Pexels How is it December already? What happened to 2025? And how did we suddenly jump from eating Easter eggs to putting up Christmas trees? To understand why our perception of time seems to bend and ... <a title="Why is time going so fast and how do I slow it down?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/why-is-time-going-so-fast-and-how-do-i-slow-it-down-268982/" aria-label="Read more about Why is time going so fast and how do I slow it down?">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Follow all the action as the third in the five-test series between arch rivals Australia and England gets underway at Adelaide Oval in Adelaide. Australia currently has a 2-0 lead in the series, after successful campaigns in both Perth and Brisbane. First ball is at 12.30 NZT Sign up for Ngā ... <a title="The Ashes live: Australia v England – third test, day one" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/the-ashes-live-australia-v-england-third-test-day-one/" aria-label="Read more about The Ashes live: Australia v England – third test, day one">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cody Lindsay, Lecturer, Exercise and Sport Science, Flinders University If you’ve ever watched a batter get beaten by a ball that curved, jagged or dipped at the last moment, you’ve seen one of cricket’s great mysteries. Whether it’s a Mitchell Starc inswinger, a Josh Hazlewood delivery that ... <a title="How cricket balls move: the science behind swing, seam and spin" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/how-cricket-balls-move-the-science-behind-swing-seam-and-spin-267965/" aria-label="Read more about How cricket balls move: the science behind swing, seam and spin">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Wellington City Council park rangers looked to install motion-activated cameras in the Town Belt on Matairangi/Mt Victoria after a spate of vandalism that appeared to target mountain bikers. Wellington City Council Wellington police say a man has been “formally warned” over damage to mountain bike tracks on Mount Victoria near the ... <a title="Man admits damaging Wellington mountain bike tracks, formally warned by police" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/man-admits-damaging-wellington-mountain-bike-tracks-formally-warned-by-police/" aria-label="Read more about Man admits damaging Wellington mountain bike tracks, formally warned by police">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand A police team member on a mountain in Fiordland. Supplied / Police A search of the route taken by two missing climbers on Aoraki/Mt Cook has turned up no sign of the pair. Bad weather has hampered the search for the climbers, who have been missing since Monday, but conditions improved ... <a title="Two climbers who died in Fiordland named" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/two-climbers-who-died-in-fiordland-named/" aria-label="Read more about Two climbers who died in Fiordland named">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand An agreement has been reached on the long-standing Nelson Tenths case. 123RF Māori landowners at the top of the South Island will have more than 3000 hectares returned to them in a landmark agreement with the Crown. In the 1830s the Crown promised Māori in Te Tauihu that if they sold ... <a title="South Island Māori landowners to get more than 3000 hectares returned by Crown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/south-island-maori-landowners-to-get-more-than-3000-hectares-returned-by-crown/" aria-label="Read more about South Island Māori landowners to get more than 3000 hectares returned by Crown">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The change is expected to apply to $5m-plus houses mostly in Queenstown or Auckland. 123RF Explainer – In a flurry of last-minute activity before the holidays, Parliament has approved changes to the foreign buyers ban that has been in place for the last seven years. The changes will allow “golden visa” ... <a title="What changes to New Zealand’s foreign buyers real estate ban will mean" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/what-changes-to-new-zealands-foreign-buyers-real-estate-ban-will-mean/" aria-label="Read more about What changes to New Zealand’s foreign buyers real estate ban will mean">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Spending remained strongest in the South Island, but was picking up in other regions. 123rf.com The holiday season appears to have boosted the spirits of consumers with household confidence on the rise. The Westpac-McDermott Miller Consumer Confidence Index rose 5.6 points in December to 96.5. While the reading was a little ... <a title="Consumer confidence up in December but still below long-term averages index shows" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/consumer-confidence-up-in-december-but-still-below-long-term-averages-index-shows/" aria-label="Read more about Consumer confidence up in December but still below long-term averages index shows">Read more</a>
