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April 21, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand David Fraser’s car on top of a fence after Wellington’s flash flooding. Mark Papalii A Wellington man says finding his car perched on top of a chest-high fence after Monday’s flash flooding was surreal. The water left the blue station wagon balanced on the corner of a roughly 1.2m high corrugated ... <a title="Wellington man ‘dumbstruck’ to find car on fence after flood" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/21/wellington-man-dumbstruck-to-find-car-on-fence-after-flood/" aria-label="Read more about Wellington man ‘dumbstruck’ to find car on fence after flood">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Ned was unearthed in a Wairarapa garden in AUgust 2025 and was found to be something quite special – a left-spiralled snail. Supplied / Giselle Clarkson A rare snail’s quest to find a mate has come to an abrupt end. But not because he found true love. Ned the snail died ... <a title="Left-spiralling snail Ned dies before finding a mate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/21/left-spiralling-snail-ned-dies-before-finding-a-mate/" aria-label="Read more about Left-spiralling snail Ned dies before finding a mate">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand (File photo) RNZ Inflation was steady in the first three months of the year. Stats NZ numbers show annual inflation was at 3.1 percent in the three months ended March, unchanged from the December quarter. The numbers don’t fully capture the impact on prices from the Middle East conflict. The greater ... <a title="Inflation steady at 3.1 percent in first three months of 2026" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/21/inflation-steady-at-3-1-percent-in-first-three-months-of-2026/" aria-label="Read more about Inflation steady at 3.1 percent in first three months of 2026">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Based in Tarras in Central Otago, he mostly sees a lot of red stags, fallow bucks, chamois and tahr through the season. Supplied Taxidermists and butchers are in the middle of their busy season, the roar. The roar, or rut period, runs from late March through until early May when red ... <a title="Roar ready: Busy season underway for taxidermists and wild game butchers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/21/roar-ready-busy-season-underway-for-taxidermists-and-wild-game-butchers/" aria-label="Read more about Roar ready: Busy season underway for taxidermists and wild game butchers">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand A net one percent of respondents think economic conditions will improve in coming months, compared to 39 percent in the previous survey. RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King Business sentiment has plummeted in the first quarter of this year as the Middle East conflict weighed on confidence. The Institute of Economic Research’s December ... <a title="Business sentiment plummets as Middle East conflict war dampens confidence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/21/business-sentiment-plummets-as-middle-east-conflict-war-dampens-confidence/" aria-label="Read more about Business sentiment plummets as Middle East conflict war dampens confidence">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Follow updates in our live blog above. Wellington and Wairarapa have spent the night under a red heavy rain warning, with downpours expected to continue through Tuesday. Wellington was hit by widespread, damaging floods and landslides on overnight on Sunday. Authorities are urging lower North Island residents to stay off the ... <a title="Weather live: Highway washed out, flights cancelled as rain, wind hit Wellington, Wairarapa" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/21/weather-live-highway-washed-out-flights-cancelled-as-rain-wind-hit-wellington-wairarapa/" aria-label="Read more about Weather live: Highway washed out, flights cancelled as rain, wind hit Wellington, Wairarapa">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frank Bongiorno, Director, Vice-Chancellor’s Centre for Public Ideas, University of Canberra “Australia is the small house,” the architect Robin Boyd reflected in his book Australia’s Home in 1952. “Ownership of one in a fenced allotment is as inevitable and unquestionable a goal of the average Australian as ... <a title="Robert Menzies fostered Australia’s love of home ownership, but the romance is souring" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/21/robert-menzies-fostered-australias-love-of-home-ownership-but-the-romance-is-souring-276631/" aria-label="Read more about Robert Menzies fostered Australia’s love of home ownership, but the romance is souring">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand File photo. Wool filters in breathing apparatus being tested prior to the Artemis II mission. NASA It’s one for small step for man, one giant leap for New Zealand wool. Auckland-based company Lanaco had its EcoStatic air filters on board the Artemis II mission, NASA’s first crewed lunar flyby in 50 ... <a title="The New Zealand wool that went around the moon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/21/the-new-zealand-wool-that-went-around-the-moon/" aria-label="Read more about The New Zealand wool that went around the moon">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Backlit by an orange sky, Romeo appears. He smokes on a derelict outdoor stage; the only curtains here the blonde hair framing his face. The moody keyboard of Radiohead’s Talk Show Host swells, a 21-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio comes into focus, and a million teenage crushes are launched. The year is 1996 ... <a title="The ’90s movie soundtrack that still makes millennial hearts flutter" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/21/the-90s-movie-soundtrack-that-still-makes-millennial-hearts-flutter/" aria-label="Read more about The ’90s movie soundtrack that still makes millennial hearts flutter">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Auckland-based midwife Sandy Wen is not just a mother to teenage chess player Luna Lu, who competes internationally in tournaments. She’s her comrade, her supporter, her teacher, her competitor and team player. When Luna became intrigued by chess pieces at the age of eight during the Covid-19 pandemic, Wen naturally began ... <a title="Taking up your kid’s hobby: ‘He opens up, he tells me he loves me’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/21/taking-up-your-kids-hobby-he-opens-up-he-tells-me-he-loves-me/" aria-label="Read more about Taking up your kid’s hobby: ‘He opens up, he tells me he loves me’">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The owner of an Island Bay pharmacy says he had been lucky to find no extra damage after flood waters ripped through the property on Monday. Wellington’s south coast was one of the worst affected areas during yesterday’s flooding. Unichem owner Duncan Sutherland said he sandbagged the shop overnight, and was ... <a title="‘Hopefully the last of it’: Flood water tears through Wellington pharmacy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/21/hopefully-the-last-of-it-flood-water-tears-through-wellington-pharmacy/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Hopefully the last of it’: Flood water tears through Wellington pharmacy">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ettore Camerlenghi, Associate Research Fellow, Avian Behaviour, Deakin University You might go for a walk in the forest to disconnect from work and calm your nerves after a busy week. The chirping and calls of birds in the canopy above might be exactly what allows you to ... <a title="Birds and monkeys in the Amazon share information via ‘internet of the forest’: new research" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/21/birds-and-monkeys-in-the-amazon-share-information-via-internet-of-the-forest-new-research-276171/" aria-label="Read more about Birds and monkeys in the Amazon share information via ‘internet of the forest’: new research">Read more</a>
