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May 14, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Supplied/123rf First person – A little while ago, I wrote about my fairly dismal returns investing in Sharesies. I started on the platform in 2017 and to date, have a simple return of 28.14 percent. That’s well below what I could have achieved in a managed fund. Sharesies say it calculates ... <a title="I thought I was a bad investor, Sharesies didn’t agree" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/14/i-thought-i-was-a-bad-investor-sharesies-didnt-agree/" aria-label="Read more about I thought I was a bad investor, Sharesies didn’t agree">Read more</a>
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May 14, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The government wants to redirect some of the funding it has been using for the ‘fees-free’ university scheme into trades training. Supplied/ UCOL Does having a degree pay off? The government wants to redirect some of the funding it has been using for the ‘fees-free’ university scheme into trades training. Prime ... <a title="Trades or degrees for higher pay? Here’s the data that shows you" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/14/trades-or-degrees-for-higher-pay-heres-the-data-that-shows-you/" aria-label="Read more about Trades or degrees for higher pay? Here’s the data that shows you">Read more</a>
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May 14, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Georgia Plimmer at the County Ground in Northampton where the ODI between the White Ferns and England was washed out, 14 May 2026. Photosport The White Ferns will attempt to level their ODI series against England on Saturday after the second match was washed out in Northampton. Showers arrived just as ... <a title="White Ferns’ second ODI v England washed out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/14/white-ferns-second-odi-v-england-washed-out/" aria-label="Read more about White Ferns’ second ODI v England washed out">Read more</a>
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May 14, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Wellington essayist Ingrid Horrocks has won the major prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her fiction debut, All Her Lives. The collection, which follows nine different women across nine different life stages, has won the $65,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize, announced at a ceremony in Auckland on Wednesday ... <a title="Short story collection wins New Zealand’s biggest book prize" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/14/short-story-collection-wins-new-zealands-biggest-book-prize/" aria-label="Read more about Short story collection wins New Zealand’s biggest book prize">Read more</a>
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May 14, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand A Portuguese millipede. RNZ/Mary Argue Hopes have been dashed that a parasitic worm will effectively kill hordes of invasive millipedes plaguing Wellingtonians. South coast residents sounded the alarm about infestations of the Portuguese millipede almost a year ago, with stories of finding hundreds of the scaly black creatures around their homes ... <a title="Hopes dashed after parasitic worm found to be ineffective at killing invasive millipedes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/14/hopes-dashed-after-parasitic-worm-found-to-be-ineffective-at-killing-invasive-millipedes/" aria-label="Read more about Hopes dashed after parasitic worm found to be ineffective at killing invasive millipedes">Read more</a>
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May 14, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand A Corrections staffer quit while being investigated over allegations they were in a relationship with an inmate they had assessed for parole. The Christchurch Women’s Prison inmate had been granted parole when the allegations came to light, but had not yet been released from prison. Her parole was then revoked and ... <a title="Corrections staffer quit while being investigated for inappropriate relationship with inmate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/14/corrections-staffer-quit-while-being-investigated-for-inappropriate-relationship-with-inmate/" aria-label="Read more about Corrections staffer quit while being investigated for inappropriate relationship with inmate">Read more</a>
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May 14, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Sociologist Paul Spoonley RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly A demographer believes the prime minister is promising a solution to an immigration problem that does not exist. Christopher Luxon has told business leaders immigration was an emerging political issue and to expect “careful” immigration policy from National – and that the party would ... <a title="PM promising solution to immigration problem that doesn’t exist, demographer says" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/14/pm-promising-solution-to-immigration-problem-that-doesnt-exist-demographer-says/" aria-label="Read more about PM promising solution to immigration problem that doesn’t exist, demographer says">Read more</a>
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May 14, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicole Van Lier, Assistant Professor of Urban and Environmental Studies, Loyola Marymount University Beginning in July 2026, Detroiters will be paying higher water and sewer bills. That’s because The Great Lakes Water Authority, or GLWA, voted unanimously on Feb. 25, 2026, to increase water rates by 5.8% ... <a title="Detroit’s water affordability crisis is tied to the uneven distribution of stormwater management costs – a fraught history explains why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/14/detroits-water-affordability-crisis-is-tied-to-the-uneven-distribution-of-stormwater-management-costs-a-fraught-history-explains-why-277157/" aria-label="Read more about Detroit’s water affordability crisis is tied to the uneven distribution of stormwater management costs – a fraught history explains why">Read more</a>
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May 14, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra A Coalition government would cap Net Overseas Migration (NOM) at the number of new homes completed, under a further instalment of the opposition’s migration policy to be announced by Liberal leader Angus Taylor in his budget reply on Thursday. The ... <a title="Angus Taylor’s budget reply to tie Net Overseas Migration to new housing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/14/angus-taylors-budget-reply-to-tie-net-overseas-migration-to-new-housing-282865/" aria-label="Read more about Angus Taylor’s budget reply to tie Net Overseas Migration to new housing">Read more</a>
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May 14, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominik Koll, Honorary Lecturer, Nuclear Physics, Australian National University When you think of outer space, you’re likely picturing stars, planets and moons. But much of space is filled with clouds of gas, plasma and stardust – known as interstellar clouds. In the local parts of our galaxy ... <a title="Stardust trapped in Antarctic ice reveals tens of thousands of years of Solar System’s past" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/14/stardust-trapped-in-antarctic-ice-reveals-tens-of-thousands-of-years-of-solar-systems-past-279745/" aria-label="Read more about Stardust trapped in Antarctic ice reveals tens of thousands of years of Solar System’s past">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand After twenty years in the business, Katchafire have made many friends in the music industry. The New Zealand band have called on some of their contacts for their latest project, Revival: The Guest Edition. It’s the second time the band have revisited their platinum-selling debut released in 2003. Revival 2.0 was ... <a title="‘Everywhere the Pacific Ocean touches, they love them some Katchafire’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/13/everywhere-the-pacific-ocean-touches-they-love-them-some-katchafire/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Everywhere the Pacific Ocean touches, they love them some Katchafire’">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The Grovers Hill walking track in Roxburgh. Supplied / Central Otago District Council One person has died after a truck rolled on a walking track in Central Otago this afternoon. Police said the crash on Grovers Hill walking track – off Teviot Street in Roxburgh – was reported at 3.15pm. The ... <a title="One dead after truck rolls on Central Otago walking track" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/13/one-dead-after-truck-rolls-on-central-otago-walking-track/" aria-label="Read more about One dead after truck rolls on Central Otago walking track">Read more</a>
