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December 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Flowers left at an Onehunga bus stop at the time of Bernice Marychurch’s death. RNZ/Nick Monro The man charged with murdering a woman on an Auckland bus a year ago has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Bernice Louise Marychurch was killed on the Number 74 bus travelling through Onehunga ... <a title="Onehunga bus killing: Kael Leona pleads not guilty on grounds of insanity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/onehunga-bus-killing-kael-leona-pleads-not-guilty-on-grounds-of-insanity/" aria-label="Read more about Onehunga bus killing: Kael Leona pleads not guilty on grounds of insanity">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / Marika Khabazi State Highway Two in Bay of Plenty is blocked after a serious crash. Police said the crash involved a truck and a van near Tanners Point just before 9am on Wednesday. Initial indications suggest there are serious injuries. The road is closed between between Katikati and Waihi ... <a title="State Highway 2 blocked after serious crash in Bay of Plenty" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/state-highway-2-blocked-after-serious-crash-in-bay-of-plenty/" aria-label="Read more about State Highway 2 blocked after serious crash in Bay of Plenty">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Chantal McDonald. Supplied The family of a woman murdered by a possessive stalker says she was a kind, hardworking woman, who was deeply devoted to her children. Nathan Boulter, who had a long history of stalking and assaulting ex-partners, murdered Chantal McDonald in Parklands on 23 July. He will be sentenced ... <a title="Family of murdered mother Chantal McDonald pay tribute" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/family-of-murdered-mother-chantal-mcdonald-pay-tribute/" aria-label="Read more about Family of murdered mother Chantal McDonald pay tribute">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Education Minister Erica Stanford RNZ / Mark Papalii There is nothing stopping schools promoting te Tiriti o Waitangi, the Education Minister says, but they must make closing the achievement gap for tamariki the priority. Earlier this month the National Iwi Chairs Forum delivered a 24,000-strong petition to Erica Stanford, calling for ... <a title="Change from Treaty focus to closing achievement gap for Māori paying off – Stanford" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/change-from-treaty-focus-to-closing-achievement-gap-for-maori-paying-off-stanford/" aria-label="Read more about Change from Treaty focus to closing achievement gap for Māori paying off – Stanford">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The 35-year-old man arrived Auckland Airport at the end of May after spending more than a month overseas. LDR / Stuff / Stephen Forbes A man has been jailed for what investigators say was one of their largest hauls of objectionable material ever seized at Auckland Airport. The 35-year-old Auckland man ... <a title="Man charged after one of largest hauls of child sex abuse material seized at Auckland Airport" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/man-charged-after-one-of-largest-hauls-of-child-sex-abuse-material-seized-at-auckland-airport/" aria-label="Read more about Man charged after one of largest hauls of child sex abuse material seized at Auckland Airport">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Mike Pannett has been appointed a statutory Deputy Commissioner of Police. Supplied / NZ Police Assistant Commissioner Mike Pannett has been announced as one of the new statutory deputy commissioners of Police. After the initial shock at Deputy Commissioner Jevon McSkimming‘s resignation in May one of the questions that emerged was ... <a title="Mike Pannett named as new Deputy Commissioner of Police" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/mike-pannett-named-as-new-deputy-commissioner-of-police/" aria-label="Read more about Mike Pannett named as new Deputy Commissioner of Police">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthony Dat, Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Surgery, School of Clinical Sciences, Monash University Carlina Teteris/Getty Christmas in Australia is a great time to spend enjoying the outdoors, with plenty of good food and drink. But such a combination contributes to this time of year being the peak ... <a title="Christmas is peak kidney stone season. Blame dehydration, the heat and all that food" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/christmas-is-peak-kidney-stone-season-blame-dehydration-the-heat-and-all-that-food-271093/" aria-label="Read more about Christmas is peak kidney stone season. Blame dehydration, the heat and all that food">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julie Choi, Senior lecturer in Education (Additional Languages), The University of Melbourne Kamaji Ogino/ Pexels About 5.7 million Australians speak a language other than English at home. Most multilingual children spend their school days speaking English and during term-time, home languages often take a back seat. So ... <a title="Leave notes, play games, go shopping: how to boost your child’s multilingual skills these holidays" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/leave-notes-play-games-go-shopping-how-to-boost-your-childs-multilingual-skills-these-holidays-271840/" aria-label="Read more about Leave notes, play games, go shopping: how to boost your child’s multilingual skills these holidays">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sanjoy Paul, Associate Professor in Operations and Supply Chain Management, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney This week, the federal government announced a ban on supermarket price gouging, aiming to get “a fairer go for families in their weekly shop”. From July 1 2026, the new ... <a title="Supermarket price gouging will be banned from July. Will consumers actually end up better off?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/supermarket-price-gouging-will-be-banned-from-july-will-consumers-actually-end-up-better-off-272060/" aria-label="Read more about Supermarket price gouging will be banned from July. Will consumers actually end up better off?">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Cantrell, Senior Lecturer, Writing, Editing and Publishing, University of Southern Queensland The Terror of War, commonly known as “Napalm Girl”, is one of the most enduring and influential images of the 20th century. Captured on June 8 1972, the photograph shows nine-year-old Kim Phúc running naked ... <a title="Who really photographed Napalm Girl? The famous war photo is now contested history" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/who-really-photographed-napalm-girl-the-famous-war-photo-is-now-contested-history-267440/" aria-label="Read more about Who really photographed Napalm Girl? The famous war photo is now contested history">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand One of the gunmen who police believe carried out a mass shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach that killed 15 people at the weekend has woken from a coma. Naveed Akram, 24, remains in a Sydney hospital under police guard. His 50-year-old father Sajid was killed by police during the shooting. Police ... <a title="Live: Bondi terror attack gunman wakes from coma" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/live-bondi-terror-attack-gunman-wakes-from-coma/" aria-label="Read more about Live: Bondi terror attack gunman wakes from coma">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand A judge has ordered a new election to take place for seats on the Auckland local board due to manipulation of voting papers. RNZ / Eveline Harvey A law professor says a judge’s order for a new election to take place for seats on an Auckland local board – due to ... <a title="Ōtara-Papatoetoe election re-do a ‘nail in the coffin’ for postal voting – law professor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/otara-papatoetoe-election-re-do-a-nail-in-the-coffin-for-postal-voting-law-professor/" aria-label="Read more about Ōtara-Papatoetoe election re-do a ‘nail in the coffin’ for postal voting – law professor">Read more</a>
