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May 13, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand A landslide on a Kingston street in Wellington, April 2026. RNZ / Mark Papalii The Natural Hazards Commission [NHC] is now receiving more claims for damage from landslides than for any other natural hazard. NHC received almost 13,000 claims for damage from landslides in the last five years, 10,000 more than ... <a title="Landslides result in more claims than any other natural hazard" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/13/landslides-result-in-more-claims-than-any-other-natural-hazard/" aria-label="Read more about Landslides result in more claims than any other natural hazard">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matt Hopcraft, Associate Professor in Professional Practice, Melbourne Dental School, The University of Melbourne This week’s federal budget was meant to help tackle the cost-of-living crisis. But Treasurer Jim Chalmers has done little to address a big out-of-pocket health cost millions of Australians face – dental care. ... <a title="Dental funding in this week’s budget is just tinkering around the edges. We need so much more" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/13/dental-funding-in-this-weeks-budget-is-just-tinkering-around-the-edges-we-need-so-much-more-282859/" aria-label="Read more about Dental funding in this week’s budget is just tinkering around the edges. We need so much more">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Annette Hall has been the voice of Far North Radio and Sea Rescue for the past 20 years. RNZ / Peter de Graaf For the past 20 years Annette Hall has been like a mother to the boaties of the Far North. She’s kept tabs on where they are with twice-daily ... <a title="How Annette Hall accidentally spent 20 years as ‘mum’ to Far North boaties" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/13/how-annette-hall-accidentally-spent-20-years-as-mum-to-far-north-boaties/" aria-label="Read more about How Annette Hall accidentally spent 20 years as ‘mum’ to Far North boaties">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Dwyer, Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania The US Government has released a new trove of documents on various cases of “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena” (UAPs) – many of which would have been described in the past as Unidentified Flying Objects or UFOs – including ... <a title="New UFO files offer no answers – but something is happening in the skies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/13/new-ufo-files-offer-no-answers-but-something-is-happening-in-the-skies-282608/" aria-label="Read more about New UFO files offer no answers – but something is happening in the skies">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Craspedia argentia seedlings in their new home at Mahaka Katia Scientific Reserve. RNZ / Katie Todd One of New Zealand’s rarest plant species is getting another shot at survival, after plummeting to just two known plants in the wild. About 250 Craspedia argentia seedlings are this week being planted at Mahaka ... <a title="Scientists bring one of New Zealand’s rarest plants back from the brink" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/13/scientists-bring-one-of-new-zealands-rarest-plants-back-from-the-brink/" aria-label="Read more about Scientists bring one of New Zealand’s rarest plants back from the brink">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand At age 14, Valiant Overcomer climbed into the back of a truck as it drove out of Gloriavale towards what he believed could be hell. The Christian community, on the West Coast of Te Wai Pounamu, was the only place he’d known. Gloriavale, he’d grown up to believe, was the only ... <a title="Growing up Māori in Gloriavale: loving and leaving the only community you know" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/13/growing-up-maori-in-gloriavale-loving-and-leaving-the-only-community-you-know/" aria-label="Read more about Growing up Māori in Gloriavale: loving and leaving the only community you know">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hussein Dia, Professor of Transport Technology and Sustainability, Swinburne University of Technology Last night’s federal budget suggests an important step in Australia’s transition to cleaner energy and electric transport may be underway. Spiking prices and geopolitical uncertainty in global oil markets show transport policy is no longer ... <a title="Electric transport is no longer niche. This year’s budget shows it’s the future" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/13/electric-transport-is-no-longer-niche-this-years-budget-shows-its-the-future-282846/" aria-label="Read more about Electric transport is no longer niche. This year’s budget shows it’s the future">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Joao Luiz Bulcao / Hans Lucas via AFP Health NZ has confirmed one of the New Zealanders on board a cruise ship struck by hantavirus does not usually live in New Zealand. One New Zealand citizen left the ship before the hantavirus outbreak was revealed, while another disembarked on Monday and ... <a title="Kiwi onboard hantavirus-hit cruise ship doesn’t usually live in New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/13/kiwi-onboard-hantavirus-hit-cruise-ship-doesnt-usually-live-in-new-zealand/" aria-label="Read more about Kiwi onboard hantavirus-hit cruise ship doesn’t usually live in New Zealand">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Awanui Labs is privately owned, but is contracted by Health NZ to provide medical laboratory and pathology services. Supplied An independent review into Invercargill’s Awanui Labs is needed after doctors twice missed signs a woman had cancer, Patient Voice Aotearoa says. The lab failed to detect the 74-year-old retired nurse had ... <a title="Awanui Labs review needed after fatal cancer missed – Patient Voice Aotearoa" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/13/awanui-labs-review-needed-after-fatal-cancer-missed-patient-voice-aotearoa/" aria-label="Read more about Awanui Labs review needed after fatal cancer missed – Patient Voice Aotearoa">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Renders of the proposed floating sauna on Lake Henry, looking north. Supplied / Southland District Council A proposal to run a floating sauna in a popular Te Anau reserve has gone up in steam in the face of public backlash. The plan was for people to sweat it out on a ... <a title="Locals win fight against proposed Te Anau floating sauna" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/13/locals-win-fight-against-proposed-te-anau-floating-sauna/" aria-label="Read more about Locals win fight against proposed Te Anau floating sauna">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The Sturges Road train station in West Auckland. File photo. Google Maps There has been an increased security presence at a West Auckland train station, after anti-social behaviour involving teenagers yesterday. The incident occurred at the Sturges Road train station car park on Tuesday afternoon. Auckland Transport spokesperson Hayden Rawcliffe confirmed ... <a title="Increased security at Auckland train station after incident with teenagers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/13/increased-security-at-auckland-train-station-after-incident-with-teenagers/" aria-label="Read more about Increased security at Auckland train station after incident with teenagers">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ Young people who could have been helped into work are instead stuck “in a void” due to government policy changes, says the head of the Mayors’ Taskforce for Jobs. It comes as StatsNZ data points to rising youth unemployment, with 14.4 percent of 15 to 24-year-olds not in education, employment ... <a title="Focus on Jobseekers leaves youth falling through cracks and harder to place once 18 – Mayors’ Taskforce" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/13/focus-on-jobseekers-leaves-youth-falling-through-cracks-and-harder-to-place-once-18-mayors-taskforce/" aria-label="Read more about Focus on Jobseekers leaves youth falling through cracks and harder to place once 18 – Mayors’ Taskforce">Read more</a>
