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February 25, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand A sudden increase in wind speed caused the Black Foils to lose control of their boat moments before their high-speed crash with Team France in this month’s SailGP regatta in Auckland, an investigation has found. The horrifying crash, which unfolded just 15 seconds after the start of the third race on ... <a title="How a wind gust triggered high-speed Auckland SailGP crash" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/25/how-a-wind-gust-triggered-high-speed-auckland-sailgp-crash/" aria-label="Read more about How a wind gust triggered high-speed Auckland SailGP crash">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The vehicle of interest in the Sharlene Smith investigation. Supplied / NZ Police Police investigating the death of a grandmother whose body was found at a Hawke’s Bay worksite earlier this month have identified a likely route taken by a vehicle of interest. Police have issued a fresh appeal for help ... <a title="Sharlene Smith homicide: Vehicle of interest identified" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/25/sharlene-smith-homicide-vehicle-of-interest-identified/" aria-label="Read more about Sharlene Smith homicide: Vehicle of interest identified">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Meridian Energy CEO Mike Roan. Meridian Energy Meridian Energy says households could face power bill increases of up to seven percent this year, mostly due to lines and transmission charges. The country’s biggest power generator returned to profitability in the half-year ended December, posting a bottom-line profit of $227 million, compared ... <a title="Meridian warns households could face power bill increases up to seven percent" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/25/meridian-warns-households-could-face-power-bill-increases-up-to-seven-percent/" aria-label="Read more about Meridian warns households could face power bill increases up to seven percent">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand A police officer found the body near Parkers Creek. Google Maps Police are investigating after a person was found dead near a vehicle in Whataroa, north of Franz Josef. Detective Senior Sergeant Brent Lyford said a police officer found the body near Parkers Creek. “At this time, the death is being ... <a title="Investigation underway after body found near vehicle in Westland" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/25/investigation-underway-after-body-found-near-vehicle-in-westland/" aria-label="Read more about Investigation underway after body found near vehicle in Westland">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Starner, Lecturer in Drama, Australian Catholic University Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, a 1955 play by Ray Lawler is as canonical an Australian play as you can get. On its premiere, it was credited with ushering a new era of assuredness in Australian theatre: telling Australian ... <a title="70 years of ‘the Doll’: how Ray Lawler’s trilogy offers a strikingly bold vision for our future" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/25/70-years-of-the-doll-how-ray-lawlers-trilogy-offers-a-strikingly-bold-vision-for-our-future-275081/" aria-label="Read more about 70 years of ‘the Doll’: how Ray Lawler’s trilogy offers a strikingly bold vision for our future">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2026
ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on February 25, 2026.
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February 25, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Diepstraten, Senior Research Officer, Blood Cells and Blood Cancer Division, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) An estimated 170,000 Australians were diagnosed with cancer in 2025. Many people know the causes of cancer are partly genetic. But how do your genes, which contribute ... <a title="What is a ‘cancer gene’? How genetic mutations lead to cancer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/25/what-is-a-cancer-gene-how-genetic-mutations-lead-to-cancer-276272/" aria-label="Read more about What is a ‘cancer gene’? How genetic mutations lead to cancer">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand File photo. RNZ / REECE BAKER Multiple people have been injured after a bus crash in the Auckland suburb of Grafton this afternoon. Hato Hone St John said three ambulances and one rapid response unit were sent to the scene on Carlton Gore Road / Park Road, shortly after 2.30pm “Four ... <a title="Multiple injuries after bus crash in Auckland" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/25/multiple-injuries-after-bus-crash-in-auckland/" aria-label="Read more about Multiple injuries after bus crash in Auckland">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand NZ First’s Shane Jones and National’s Tama Potaka. RNZ New Zealand First has hit out at National after its coalition partner promised to campaign on stronger fishing protections in the Hauraki Gulf. National’s conservation spokesperson Tama Potaka laid out the position his party would take to the election campaign over the ... <a title="National and New Zealand First go head to head over Hauraki Gulf" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/25/national-and-new-zealand-first-go-head-to-head-over-hauraki-gulf/" aria-label="Read more about National and New Zealand First go head to head over Hauraki Gulf">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon previously said the plans helped create momentum and drive focus. RNZ / Nathan McKinnon The government appears to have scrapped its quarterly action plans, after not releasing one so far this quarter. At the start of the term, the Prime Minister released the things the government planned ... <a title="Government scraps its quarterly action plans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/25/government-scraps-its-quarterly-action-plans/" aria-label="Read more about Government scraps its quarterly action plans">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan Tonkin, Professor of Ecology and Rutherford Discovery Fellow, University of Canterbury In the summer of 2022, extreme heat and unprecedented drought drove parts of the world’s third largest river, the Yangtze, to dry up. The impacts for hydropower, shipping and industry in China were severe, immediate ... <a title="Extreme weather is transforming the world’s rivers. We need new ways to protect them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/25/extreme-weather-is-transforming-the-worlds-rivers-we-need-new-ways-to-protect-them-276358/" aria-label="Read more about Extreme weather is transforming the world’s rivers. We need new ways to protect them">Read more</a>
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February 25, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ/Calvin Samuel MediMap, the hacked health portal, is heading to court to try to block people accessing and using the data that has been breached. It was breached on Sunday, and the company has now taken the platform offline while it investigates. It’s used for prescribing and giving medication in places ... <a title="MediMap urgently seeks court injunction to protect stolen data after cyber hack" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/25/medimap-urgently-seeks-court-injunction-to-protect-stolen-data-after-cyber-hack/" aria-label="Read more about MediMap urgently seeks court injunction to protect stolen data after cyber hack">Read more</a>
