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March 17, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The Education Review Office says it is introducing new, simpler reports about schools next month. It says from term two ERO reports will include a summary that gives families an at-a-glance understanding of the performance of their children’s school. The office says the new reports will have more focus on children’s ... <a title="Overhaul of ERO school reports announced" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/overhaul-of-ero-school-reports-announced/" aria-label="Read more about Overhaul of ERO school reports announced">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The Wattie’s factory in Christchurch. Nathan McKinnon / RNZ Wattie’s New Zealand’s proposal to stop producing frozen vegetables is expected to impact the country’s already-hurting vegetable growers and seed producers. The seed industry was taking stock of what last week’s announcement by one of the country’s largest food producers, would mean ... <a title="Wattie’s NZ’s proposed cuts ‘a really big blow’ to seed, arable growers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/watties-nzs-proposed-cuts-a-really-big-blow-to-seed-arable-growers/" aria-label="Read more about Wattie’s NZ’s proposed cuts ‘a really big blow’ to seed, arable growers">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand New Zealand and Samoa have vowed to do more to combat the flow of drugs through the Pacific, which prime minister Christopher Luxon says has become a “super highway”. Luxon and his Samoan counterpart La’aulialemalietoa Polataivao Leuatea Fosi Schmidt have signed memorandums of understanding for Police and Customs to work together ... <a title="NZ, Samoa vow to combat flow of drugs through Pacific ‘super highway’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/nz-samoa-vow-to-combat-flow-of-drugs-through-pacific-super-highway/" aria-label="Read more about NZ, Samoa vow to combat flow of drugs through Pacific ‘super highway’">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Police say they’re continuing to make enquiries. RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly A Tauranga school was put into lockdown this morning after reports of someone with a weapon. Police were called to Cameron Road at about 8.50am. “A nearby school was advised to be placed into a lockdown, however this has since ... <a title="Tauranga School went in lockdown after reports of an armed person" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/tauranga-school-went-in-lockdown-after-reports-of-an-armed-person/" aria-label="Read more about Tauranga School went in lockdown after reports of an armed person">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Plank, Professor in Applied Mathematics, University of Canterbury Six years after COVID-19 first reached New Zealand, the country is experiencing its ninth wave of infections. But the virus we are living with today behaves very differently from the one that caused the global emergency in 2020–22. ... <a title="NZ’s 9th COVID-19 wave: why infections are rising – and how booster shots still help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/nzs-9th-covid-19-wave-why-infections-are-rising-and-how-booster-shots-still-help-278075/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s 9th COVID-19 wave: why infections are rising – and how booster shots still help">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Residents of Blockhouse Bay in southwestern Auckland were dismayed to learn early last year that their local Woolworths supermarket was earmarked to close. While the Donovan Street store wasn’t the largest supermarket in the area, many living nearby treated it as an extension of their household refrigerators, popping down to the ... <a title="What one changing suburb tells us" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/what-one-changing-suburb-tells-us/" aria-label="Read more about What one changing suburb tells us">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Film star Sean Penn stepped out of a train carriage in central Kyiv on Monday, thousands of miles away from the glitz of Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre where he had failed to turn up to receive his third acting Oscar hours earlier. Penn, 65, won the Oscar for best supporting actor for ... <a title="Why Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn skipped the ceremony" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/why-oscar-winning-actor-sean-penn-skipped-the-ceremony/" aria-label="Read more about Why Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn skipped the ceremony">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Two people are being taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Supplied / St John Emergency services are at the scene of a four-vehicle crash in Palmerston North this morning. The crash was reported at about 8.25am at the intersection of Rangitikei Line and Flygers Line in Cloverlea, police said. Two ... <a title="Two people hospitalised after four-vehicle crash in Palmerston North" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/two-people-hospitalised-after-four-vehicle-crash-in-palmerston-north/" aria-label="Read more about Two people hospitalised after four-vehicle crash in Palmerston North">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Luis Freijo, Research Associate in Film Studies, King’s College London The 2026 Academy Awards revealed a striking contradiction. Many of the winning films grapple with urgent contemporary issues, or difficult questions of historical memory. Yet their makers avoided following up on that political character in their acceptance ... <a title="What the 2026 Oscars revealed about the current political mood in Hollywood" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/what-the-2026-oscars-revealed-about-the-current-political-mood-in-hollywood-278495/" aria-label="Read more about What the 2026 Oscars revealed about the current political mood in Hollywood">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Doyle, Lecturer in Ancient and Medieval History, University of Galway Celebrated every year with swathes of green and pints of Guinness, Saint Patrick is the most famous of Ireland’s trio of patron saints (the others are Brigid and Colm Cille, aka Columba). Saint Patrick’s story is ... <a title="Saint Patrick’s Day and the mystery of the second Patrick" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/saint-patricks-day-and-the-mystery-of-the-second-patrick-277404/" aria-label="Read more about Saint Patrick’s Day and the mystery of the second Patrick">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
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 A number of cases of the flesh-eating Buruli ulcer have now been detected on the New South Wales south coast. There is growing evidence mosquitoes are at ... <a title="Flesh-eating bacteria spread from possums and mozzies. But Buruli ulcers are preventable and treatable" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/flesh-eating-bacteria-spread-from-possums-and-mozzies-but-buruli-ulcers-are-preventable-and-treatable-278094/" aria-label="Read more about Flesh-eating bacteria spread from possums and mozzies. But Buruli ulcers are preventable and treatable">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jason M. Lodge, Director of the Learning, Instruction & Technology Lab and Professor of Educational Psychology, School of Education, The University of Queensland In Australia, artificial intelligence is becoming a near-universal feature of education. As of 2025, nearly 80% of university students reported using AI in their ... <a title="Almost 80% of Australian uni students now use AI. This is creating an ‘illusion of competence’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/almost-80-of-australian-uni-students-now-use-ai-this-is-creating-an-illusion-of-competence-278413/" aria-label="Read more about Almost 80% of Australian uni students now use AI. This is creating an ‘illusion of competence’">Read more</a>
