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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / Nate McKinnon Mobile network company 2degrees says it is aware some customers are experiencing issues with connecting, receiving, or making calls on their mobile devices. 2degrees’ website says a nationwide fault was under repair since about 4am on Thursday morning. The company said it was sorry for the inconvenience ... <a title="Mobile phone issues for some 2degrees customers due to nationwide fault" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/mobile-phone-issues-for-some-2degrees-customers-due-to-nationwide-fault/" aria-label="Read more about Mobile phone issues for some 2degrees customers due to nationwide fault">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand It’s been a great year for feet, particularly toes. If you followed the fashion of the Northern Hemisphere summer, a predictor for what might be cool for New Zealand’s summer, you likely saw shoes that might typically be categorised as offensive to the eye. I’m talking about styles such as the ... <a title="Will New Zealand follow the ‘ugly shoe’ summer?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/will-new-zealand-follow-the-ugly-shoe-summer/" aria-label="Read more about Will New Zealand follow the ‘ugly shoe’ summer?">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The store opens at 11am, while the carpark was opened to shoppers at 8.30am. RNZ / Melanie Earley A handful of eager shoppers have begun to gather outside the new IKEA store at Mt Wellington in Auckland. Drivers are being warned to expect 40-minute queues today, with traffic analysts expecting crowds ... <a title="Queues build as shoppers line up for IKEA’s Auckland opening" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/queues-build-as-shoppers-line-up-for-ikeas-auckland-opening/" aria-label="Read more about Queues build as shoppers line up for IKEA’s Auckland opening">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Rutherford Street, between Melling Link and Connolly Street, is closed. X / NZ Transport Agency A person is dead after a fuel truck collided with a building on Lower Hutt’s Rutherford Street. At 9.15am Rutherford Street, between Melling Link and Connolly Street, was still closed after the single-vehicle crash about 5.30am ... <a title="Person killed, major Lower Hutt road closed for hours as fuel truck hits building" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/person-killed-major-lower-hutt-road-closed-for-hours-as-fuel-truck-hits-building/" aria-label="Read more about Person killed, major Lower Hutt road closed for hours as fuel truck hits building">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Climate Change Minister Simon Watts. RNZ / Nick Monro The government has rejected all of the Climate Change Commission’s recommendations to strengthen New Zealand’s emissions targets. The move comes despite the Commission warning the effects of climate change are hitting New Zealand sooner and more severely than expected, and that New ... <a title="Government rejects all of Climate Change Commission’s emissions target recommendations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/government-rejects-all-of-climate-change-commissions-emissions-target-recommendations/" aria-label="Read more about Government rejects all of Climate Change Commission’s emissions target recommendations">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jesse Austin-Stewart, Lecturer, School of Music and Screen Arts, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University Getty Images Spotify has just released Spotify Wrapped, its annual end-of-year viral promotional exercise. For New Zealand musicians, however, there was little to get excited about. Spotify Wrapped aims to reflect ... <a title="Spotify Wrapped ghosted NZ music again. Local artists and audiences deserve more" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/spotify-wrapped-ghosted-nz-music-again-local-artists-and-audiences-deserve-more-270802/" aria-label="Read more about Spotify Wrapped ghosted NZ music again. Local artists and audiences deserve more">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand [embedded content] For more than 30 years, residents on Auckland’s Franklin Road have decked out their properties with Christmas decorations for the rest of the city to enjoy. Despite prevalent rumours and conspiracy theories that the popular street-wide display is “funded by the electricity companies” or “organised by the council”, Roscoe ... <a title="‘A gift for the people’: Switch flicked for Franklin Road Christmas lights" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/a-gift-for-the-people-switch-flicked-for-franklin-road-christmas-lights/" aria-label="Read more about ‘A gift for the people’: Switch flicked for Franklin Road Christmas lights">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Rutherford Street, between Melling Link and Connolly Street, is closed. X / NZ Transport Agency A fuel truck has collided with a building on Lower Hutt’s Rutherford Street, seriously injuring one person, RNZ understands. Rutherford Street, between Melling Link and Connolly Street, is closed after the single-vehicle crash about 5.30am on ... <a title="Major Lower Hutt road closed for hours as fuel truck hits building" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/major-lower-hutt-road-closed-for-hours-as-fuel-truck-hits-building/" aria-label="Read more about Major Lower Hutt road closed for hours as fuel truck hits building">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bram Servais, PhD Candidate Biomedical Engineering, The University of Melbourne A microelectrode array covered with neurons. Bram Servais As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach is gaining attention: using living human brain cells as computational hardware. ... <a title="How scientists are growing computers from human brain cells – and why they want to keep doing it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/how-scientists-are-growing-computers-from-human-brain-cells-and-why-they-want-to-keep-doing-it-270464/" aria-label="Read more about How scientists are growing computers from human brain cells – and why they want to keep doing it">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicholas Coppel, Honorary Fellow, The University of Melbourne Myanmar’s military regime has announced elections will be held in three phases, starting on December 28 and concluding in January. Two outcomes are certain: first, the military-aligned party will be recorded as winning and, second, the government in exile ... <a title="Myanmar’s military will no doubt win this month’s sham elections. But could a shake-up follow?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/myanmars-military-will-no-doubt-win-this-months-sham-elections-but-could-a-shake-up-follow-269793/" aria-label="Read more about Myanmar’s military will no doubt win this month’s sham elections. But could a shake-up follow?">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cameron Webb, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Medical Science & Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute; Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney Summer’s here and after a wet spring in many parts of Australia, mosquitoes are out in force. Insect repellent has become a routine requirement for time outdoors. ... <a title="Are mozzie repellents safe to use? And do I really need them in Australia?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/are-mozzie-repellents-safe-to-use-and-do-i-really-need-them-in-australia-267974/" aria-label="Read more about Are mozzie repellents safe to use? And do I really need them in Australia?">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deanna Grant-Smith, Professor of Management, University of the Sunshine Coast Vishnu R Nair/Pexels Around Australia, music festival season is once again kicking into high gear. Yet behind every headline act is a vast and often invisible workforce of stage crew, sound engineers, lighting techs, riggers, truck drivers, ... <a title="As music festival season ramps up, artists can help shine a light on an ‘invisible’ workforce" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/as-music-festival-season-ramps-up-artists-can-help-shine-a-light-on-an-invisible-workforce-270967/" aria-label="Read more about As music festival season ramps up, artists can help shine a light on an ‘invisible’ workforce">Read more</a>
