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March 17, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Mitch Barnett has been named among the Warriors reserves against Newcastle. Brett Costello NRL: Newcastle Knights v NZ Warriors Kickoff 5pm, Saturday, 21 March MacDonald Jones Stadium, Newcastle Live blog updates on RNZ website NZ Warriors co-captain Mitch Barnett moves a step closer to his NRL return, when his team visit ... <a title="NZ Warriors co-captain Mitch Barnett nears return from injury against Newcastle Knights" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/nz-warriors-co-captain-mitch-barnett-nears-return-from-injury-against-newcastle-knights/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Warriors co-captain Mitch Barnett nears return from injury against Newcastle Knights">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Follow all the cricket action as the Black Caps take on South Africa for their second of five T20 matches. New Zealand lost by seven wickets to the visitors in the first T20 at Mt Maunganui on Sunday. The Black Caps were only able to post a total of 91 after ... <a title="Live: Black Caps v South Africa – second T20" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/live-black-caps-v-south-africa-second-t20/" aria-label="Read more about Live: Black Caps v South Africa – second T20">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand 123RF The Public Service Association is calling on the government to offer targeted financial support to home support workers. Many of country’s 23,000 home support workers are earning minimum wage and travel is reimbursed at only 63.5c per kilometre, the union for public servants said. Home support workers provide assistance to ... <a title="Union calls for government to offer targeted financial aid to home support workers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/union-calls-for-government-to-offer-targeted-financial-aid-to-home-support-workers/" aria-label="Read more about Union calls for government to offer targeted financial aid to home support workers">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The payment for those who have to drive for treatment is only 34 cents a kilometre and has strict criteria. File photo. RNZ / Quin Tauetau Cancer comes with a high price at the best of times, but it is getting more costly for hundreds of patients as fuel prices rise. ... <a title="Rising cost of getting to cancer treatment: ‘It’s already hard times and this is going to make it a lot harder’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/rising-cost-of-getting-to-cancer-treatment-its-already-hard-times-and-this-is-going-to-make-it-a-lot-harder/" aria-label="Read more about Rising cost of getting to cancer treatment: ‘It’s already hard times and this is going to make it a lot harder’">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Saige England Every week, health prevailing, I march with our Palestinian friends and their supporters in Aotearoa New Zealand. And my country is one which — under Britain — was colonised. Colonisation perpetrates injustices against indigenous people. This legacy is still felt by Indigenous people today. All around the world we must dismantle ... <a title="Saige England: Journalists must stand up and report with the moral courage of abolitionists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/saige-england-journalists-must-stand-up-and-report-with-the-moral-courage-of-abolitionists/" aria-label="Read more about Saige England: Journalists must stand up and report with the moral courage of abolitionists">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand 123rf.com Parents feel the effect of Ministry of Education-funded school bus route reviews One mother’s petrol bill jumps from $120 a week to $300 a week now her son can’t catch a bus Ministry says reviews are routine, to make sure transport funding is fair and efficient Officials back down from ... <a title="Mother’s fuel bill triples after child no longer eligible for government-funded school bus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/mothers-fuel-bill-triples-after-child-no-longer-eligible-for-government-funded-school-bus/" aria-label="Read more about Mother’s fuel bill triples after child no longer eligible for government-funded school bus">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Head, Canberra School of Government, University of Canberra The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has lifted official interest rates for the second time this year as it struggles to bring inflation under control, saying inflation is “likely to remain above target for some time”. But ... <a title="RBA narrowly votes to lift interest rates. The Middle East war may determine if there’s more to come" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/rba-narrowly-votes-to-lift-interest-rates-the-middle-east-war-may-determine-if-theres-more-to-come-278205/" aria-label="Read more about RBA narrowly votes to lift interest rates. The Middle East war may determine if there’s more to come">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Thieves are stealing copper wiring from North Canterbury power lines. 123RF Canterbury lines company MainPower is offering a $5000 reward for significant information relating to the tampering with or theft of copper earthing wires. There have been more instances of copper theft in North Canterbury since January, compared to the whole ... <a title="Lines company offers reward to help reduce copper theft" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/lines-company-offers-reward-to-help-reduce-copper-theft/" aria-label="Read more about Lines company offers reward to help reduce copper theft">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / Nate McKinnon A man who claims he was sexually assaulted as a teen by an older man decades ago has been accused of making up the allegation to get a prison sentence reduced. The accused, who has name suppression, has pleaded not guilty to one charge of sexual violation ... <a title="Man accused of making up sexual assault allegations to get reduced prison sentence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/man-accused-of-making-up-sexual-assault-allegations-to-get-reduced-prison-sentence/" aria-label="Read more about Man accused of making up sexual assault allegations to get reduced prison sentence">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand More than 70 beds will be added to hospitals ahead of the colder months, which the government says will reduce wait times. File photo. Supplied/ Waikato Hospital Millions in new government funding to meet winter demand is a drop in the bucket, healthcare unions say. The $25 million funding will see ... <a title="New health funding for winter a drop in the bucket – unions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/new-health-funding-for-winter-a-drop-in-the-bucket-unions/" aria-label="Read more about New health funding for winter a drop in the bucket – unions">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Musgrave, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology, Adelaide University For about a year, an algal bloom in South Australian waters has had devastating effects on marine life. At my local beach, walks were a sad parade of dead sea life. But what of the health effects of these ... <a title="Can brevetoxins from algal blooms make me sick? A toxicologist explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/can-brevetoxins-from-algal-blooms-make-me-sick-a-toxicologist-explains-278405/" aria-label="Read more about Can brevetoxins from algal blooms make me sick? A toxicologist explains">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shannon Bosch, Associate Professor (Law), Edith Cowan University Afghanistan says at least 400 people have been killed in a Pakistani airstrike on a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul on Monday night, with potentially hundreds more wounded. Pakistan has denied deliberately targeting the health-care facility. In a statement ... <a title="Attacks on hospitals are surging in war zones. What do the laws of war say about protecting them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/attacks-on-hospitals-are-surging-in-war-zones-what-do-the-laws-of-war-say-about-protecting-them-278414/" aria-label="Read more about Attacks on hospitals are surging in war zones. What do the laws of war say about protecting them?">Read more</a>
