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February 5, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Unsplash Consumers were a shade more willing to spend at the start of the year, although stormy weather put a dampener on things in some parts of the country, according to payments firm Worldline. Spending at core retail merchants rose by 0.6 percent in January compared with a year ago, with ... <a title="Weather puts dampener on slight retail spending recovery" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/05/weather-puts-dampener-on-slight-retail-spending-recovery/" aria-label="Read more about Weather puts dampener on slight retail spending recovery">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand A tourist boat that ran aground in Banks Peninsula’s Akaroa Harbour is now wrecked on shore after swells dislodged it from rocks near the heads. New photos show the Black Cat Cruises boat wrecked on the shore in Banks Peninsula’s Akaroa Harbour after swells dislodged the catamaran from rocks near the ... <a title="Swells dislodge wrecked catamaran from rocks in Akaroa Harbour" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/05/swells-dislodge-wrecked-catamaran-from-rocks-in-akaroa-harbour/" aria-label="Read more about Swells dislodge wrecked catamaran from rocks in Akaroa Harbour">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vaughan Cruickshank, Senior Lecturer in Health and Physical Education, University of Tasmania This year’s Winter Olympics will be held in northern Italy, starting on Friday. They will be the most spread out in history: the two main competition sites – Milan and the winter resort of Cortina ... <a title="Milan Cortina Winter Olympics: history, new events and Australian medal chances" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/05/milan-cortina-winter-olympics-history-new-events-and-australian-medal-chances-271834/" aria-label="Read more about Milan Cortina Winter Olympics: history, new events and Australian medal chances">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The Prime Minister and other parliamentarians have been welcomed to the lower Treaty Grounds at Waitangi. A pōwhiri was held at 11am, before they gathered for speeches. Christopher Luxon, who was absent from the Treaty Grounds last year, had promised to bring a message of unity. After meeting with Māori leaders ... <a title="Waitangi live: Politicians including Hipkins, Seymour, Peters speak following welcome to Treaty Grounds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/05/waitangi-live-politicians-including-hipkins-seymour-peters-speak-following-welcome-to-treaty-grounds/" aria-label="Read more about Waitangi live: Politicians including Hipkins, Seymour, Peters speak following welcome to Treaty Grounds">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Pia Vlok scored a triple on the weekend. PHOTOSPORT Pia Vlok was sitting in the changing rooms still on a high after becoming the first Phoenix women’s player to score an A-League hat-trick on Sunday, when she received a phone call from the Football Ferns coach. National women’s coach Michael Mayne ... <a title="‘Best week ever’ for Phoenix teen and newly named Football Fern Pia Vlok" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/05/best-week-ever-for-phoenix-teen-and-newly-named-football-fern-pia-vlok/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Best week ever’ for Phoenix teen and newly named Football Fern Pia Vlok">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Wellington’s City to Sea bridge. Paul McCredie A popular footbridge connecting Wellington’s waterfront to the central city has been saved from demolition – but its seismic risk won’t be addressed. There’s been a years-long fight over the City to Sea bridge – and the former Capital E building underneath – with ... <a title="Wellington’s City to Sea bridge saved but most seismic work off the table" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/05/wellingtons-city-to-sea-bridge-saved-but-most-seismic-work-off-the-table/" aria-label="Read more about Wellington’s City to Sea bridge saved but most seismic work off the table">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joel Scanlan, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Law; Academic Co-Lead, CSAM Deterrence Centre, University of Tasmania In the 2024–25 financial year alone, the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation received nearly 83,000 reports of online child sexual abuse material (CSAM), primarily on mainstream platforms. This was a ... <a title="Big tech companies are still failing to tackle child abuse material online" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/05/big-tech-companies-are-still-failing-to-tackle-child-abuse-material-online-274857/" aria-label="Read more about Big tech companies are still failing to tackle child abuse material online">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ahmed Uzair Aziz, PhD Candidate in Māori Studies, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Rose Davis, CC BY-NC-ND This story begins with a 160-year-old cottage, sited in a vortex of overlapping histories, and becomes the tale of a city itself. The green and cream weatherboard house at ... <a title="This central Auckland cottage tells a remarkable tale of the city’s bicultural history" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/05/this-central-auckland-cottage-tells-a-remarkable-tale-of-the-citys-bicultural-history-274005/" aria-label="Read more about This central Auckland cottage tells a remarkable tale of the city’s bicultural history">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2026
SPECIAL REPORT: By Jason Brown Fast-paced electronic music pumps in the background as a rapid montage of moving images flash across the screen. In a 20 second video, French sailors hunker down in an inflatable speeding over swells. Another sailor, in bright red shorts, is lowered from a helicopter onto the vessel’s back deck. Captured ... <a title="French shrug off cocaine case costs with new smugglers ‘strategy’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/05/french-shrug-off-cocaine-case-costs-with-new-smugglers-strategy/" aria-label="Read more about French shrug off cocaine case costs with new smugglers ‘strategy’">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The people of Ngāpuhi deliver a powerful haka, welcoming parliamentarians onto the upper Waitangi Treaty Grounds. Layla Bailey-McDowell / RNZ The prime minister and other MPs were welcomed back onto the Waitangi Treaty Grounds on Thursday morning as the long weekend gets underway. RNZ photographers and journalists were on the ground ... <a title="Waitangi 2026: Thursday in pictures" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/05/waitangi-2026-thursday-in-pictures/" aria-label="Read more about Waitangi 2026: Thursday in pictures">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Wellington’s City to Sea bridge. Paul McCredie A popular footbridge connecting Wellington’s waterfront to the central city has been saved from demolition – but its seismic risk won’t be addressed. There’s been a years-long fight over the City to Sea bridge – and the former Capital E building underneath – with ... <a title="Wellington’s City to Sea bridge saved but $85m in seismic work off the table" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/05/wellingtons-city-to-sea-bridge-saved-but-85m-in-seismic-work-off-the-table/" aria-label="Read more about Wellington’s City to Sea bridge saved but $85m in seismic work off the table">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Wellington Water chief executive Pat Dougherty says he had never seen damage like this before. Samuel Rillstone Wellington Water’s chief executive says the Moa Point wastewater treatment plant is not in good shape, with 70 percent of it flooded and 80 percent of its equipment damaged. An equipment failure flooded the ... <a title="Damage to Moa Point wastewater plant ‘as bad as we feared’ – Wellington Water" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/05/damage-to-moa-point-wastewater-plant-as-bad-as-we-feared-wellington-water/" aria-label="Read more about Damage to Moa Point wastewater plant ‘as bad as we feared’ – Wellington Water">Read more</a>
