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March 4, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand 123RF Supply pressure and buying interest saw dairy prices continue their climb at the latest Global Dairy Trade auction overnight. The average price rose 5.7 percent overnight to US$4301 (NZ$7299) a tonne. It was the fifth consecutive auction where prices have risen since the start of the year and followed a ... <a title="Global dairy prices continue to rise in wake of Middle East conflict" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/04/global-dairy-prices-continue-to-rise-in-wake-of-middle-east-conflict/" aria-label="Read more about Global dairy prices continue to rise in wake of Middle East conflict">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand It showed agencies such as in health, justice and education had faced a December deadline to make the case for their bids for this year’s Budget, but that had to be pushed back. RNZ The government has been facing too much demand to fund infrastructure projects from agencies left with too ... <a title="Government pushes back deadline for agencies’ project funding bids" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/04/government-pushes-back-deadline-for-agencies-project-funding-bids/" aria-label="Read more about Government pushes back deadline for agencies’ project funding bids">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The KiwiSaver gender gap narrowed from 17 percent in 2020 to 14 percent in 2025. File photo. RNZ / Hingyi Khong Women are being told to take more risk with their KiwiSaver to help close the gap between their average balance and those of men. Westpac said while the gender gap ... <a title="One decision that could cost women $200,000" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/04/one-decision-that-could-cost-women-200000/" aria-label="Read more about One decision that could cost women $200,000">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / Marika Khabazi A person has been seriously injured after getting trapped between a rubbish truck and what RNZ understands to be a skip bin in Wellington. Emergency services were called to Maning Lane in the central city at 4.55am. FENZ shift manager Jill Webley said crews extracted a trapped ... <a title="Person seriously hurt after being trapped between truck and skip in Wellington" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/04/person-seriously-hurt-after-being-trapped-between-truck-and-skip-in-wellington/" aria-label="Read more about Person seriously hurt after being trapped between truck and skip in Wellington">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand ASamoan teenager was adopted by a New Zealand resident in a ‘coerced relocation’. Unsplash / RNZ composite A tribunal has been told a Samoan teenager was adopted by a New Zealand resident in a ‘coerced relocation’ which led to violence and her baby being taken into care. Immigration New Zealand (INZ) ... <a title="Samoan teenager adopted in ‘coerced’ migration, tribunal told" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/04/samoan-teenager-adopted-in-coerced-migration-tribunal-told/" aria-label="Read more about Samoan teenager adopted in ‘coerced’ migration, tribunal told">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Foriegn Affairs Minister Winston Peters RNZ / Mark Papalii Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters says there are thousands of New Zealanders whose plans have been disrupted by the current war between the US and Israel and Iran. All sorts of contingencies to help them were being looked at but it was ... <a title="Government ‘talking to everybody’ over Kiwis caught up in Middle East war – Peters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/04/government-talking-to-everybody-over-kiwis-caught-up-in-middle-east-war-peters/" aria-label="Read more about Government ‘talking to everybody’ over Kiwis caught up in Middle East war – Peters">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Former New Zealand Prime Minister Dame Jacinda Ardern’s book, A Different Kind of Power, has made the shortlist of the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Ardern’s memoir is one of four finalists announced on Wednesday in the awards’ general non-fiction category. The Ockham Awards shortlist includes writers across fiction, poetry, ... <a title="Ardern on list as Ockham Book Awards finalists revealed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/04/ardern-on-list-as-ockham-book-awards-finalists-revealed/" aria-label="Read more about Ardern on list as Ockham Book Awards finalists revealed">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Vaughan, Rock Art Australia Kimberley Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and images of people who have died. Much of the conversation about artificial intelligence (AI) and Indigenous peoples focuses on harms, such ... <a title="AI has powerful uses for First Nations oral cultural knowledge. Here’s how" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/04/ai-has-powerful-uses-for-first-nations-oral-cultural-knowledge-heres-how-276043/" aria-label="Read more about AI has powerful uses for First Nations oral cultural knowledge. Here’s how">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Konstantine Panegyres, Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia Just like in the modern world, people in ancient times wanted to know how to live a long and healthy life. Greeks and Romans heard fantastic tales of far-away peoples living to well beyond ... <a title="How to live a long and healthy life, according to the ancients" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/04/how-to-live-a-long-and-healthy-life-according-to-the-ancients-274975/" aria-label="Read more about How to live a long and healthy life, according to the ancients">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Van Amber, Senior Lecturer in Fashion & Textiles, RMIT University If you care about sustainability, buying something as simple as a pillowcase can feel surprisingly hard. Search for “sustainable sheets” and you’re flooded with familiar and tantalising promises: silky, bamboo, vegan, antimicrobial, breathable, organic. The language ... <a title="‘Silky’ doesn’t mean it’s made from silk – how confusing textile language can harm the environment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/04/silky-doesnt-mean-its-made-from-silk-how-confusing-textile-language-can-harm-the-environment-271406/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Silky’ doesn’t mean it’s made from silk – how confusing textile language can harm the environment">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Latimer, Adjunct Professor, School of Law, Swinburne University of Technology You might think it was exactly the kind of scenario you’d buy travel insurance for in the first place. A major, unforeseen international event causes travel chaos. Flights are grounded around the world, leaving you and ... <a title="Why doesn’t travel insurance cover war?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/04/why-doesnt-travel-insurance-cover-war-277363/" aria-label="Read more about Why doesn’t travel insurance cover war?">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown. RNZ/Marika Khabazi Auckland Council has less than two weeks to respond to a letter from the government wanting the council to outline its plan for housing intensification. But mayor Wayne Brown says the council is already spending millions on the project and the request is too costly. ... <a title="Auckland mayor objects to ‘expensive’ housing plan request" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/04/auckland-mayor-objects-to-expensive-housing-plan-request/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland mayor objects to ‘expensive’ housing plan request">Read more</a>
