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April 19, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand A number of communities, including Pāuatahanui in Porirua, are cleaning up following flash flooding this weekend, and more rain and stormy weather is expected. RNZ / Krystal Gibbens MetService says a low pressure system will continue to bring bands of rain with heavy localised downpours to parts of the North Island ... <a title="More downpours expected across the country overnight and tomorrow" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/19/more-downpours-expected-across-the-country-overnight-and-tomorrow/" aria-label="Read more about More downpours expected across the country overnight and tomorrow">Read more</a>
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April 19, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Chlöe Swarbrick delivers her ‘State of the Planet’ speech. RNZ / Mark Papalii The Green Party is calling for a national plan to electrify homes, transport and industry with natural energy, as a response to the fuel crisis. Party co-leaders Marama Davidson and Chlöe Swarbrick have delivered their ‘State of the ... <a title="Green Party issues ‘human catastrophe’ warning in ‘State of the Planet’ address" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/19/green-party-issues-human-catastrophe-warning-in-state-of-the-planet-address/" aria-label="Read more about Green Party issues ‘human catastrophe’ warning in ‘State of the Planet’ address">Read more</a>
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April 19, 2026
Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: To look more at the latest developments in Lebanon and the Middle East region, we’re joined by Dr Rami Khouri, a Palestinian American journalist and distinguished public policy fellow at the American University of Beirut. He’s also a nonresident senior fellow at the Arab Center Washington DC. Rami, we began talking ... <a title="US, Israel ‘forced into two ceasefires’ as regional balance of power shifts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/19/us-israel-forced-into-two-ceasefires-as-regional-balance-of-power-shifts/" aria-label="Read more about US, Israel ‘forced into two ceasefires’ as regional balance of power shifts">Read more</a>
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April 19, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Dwell CEO Elizabeth Lester said the results had been “astounding”. RNZ / Richard Tindiller A Wellington social housing provider reports great results from its partnership with Downtown Community Ministry (DCM), but does not have enough homes to meet demand. In partnership with DCM, Dwell Housing Trust had housed 16 rough sleepers ... <a title="Rough sleepers housed under Wellington partnership but still not enough" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/19/rough-sleepers-housed-under-wellington-partnership-but-still-not-enough/" aria-label="Read more about Rough sleepers housed under Wellington partnership but still not enough">Read more</a>
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April 19, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand View of 1860s Wellington showing the northern end of Lambton Quay at Pipitea. The intersection with Charlotte Street (now Molesworth Street) is near the centre of the image. Wellington City Libraries Parliament’s grounds in Wellington are a knoll of relative peace in a dense governmental zone that includes cathedrals, courts, the ... <a title="The House: Victorian Parliament: amid slum, disease, fires and illegal demolition" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/19/the-house-victorian-parliament-amid-slum-disease-fires-and-illegal-demolition/" aria-label="Read more about The House: Victorian Parliament: amid slum, disease, fires and illegal demolition">Read more</a>
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April 19, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Musician Hanne Jøstensen now lives on the coast in Island Bay, Wellington, but grew up on a tiny remote island in Norway. She has just released a song ‘Lighthouse’ which has a very personal connection as her grandfather was lighthouse keeper on the island of Sula, off the northwest coast of ... <a title="‘The song is a tribute to the resilience of coastal people’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/19/the-song-is-a-tribute-to-the-resilience-of-coastal-people/" aria-label="Read more about ‘The song is a tribute to the resilience of coastal people’">Read more</a>
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April 19, 2026
ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on April 19, 2026.
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April 19, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Green Party co-leaders Marama Davidson and Chlöe Swarbrick RNZ / Samuel Rillstone Green Party co-leaders Marama Davidson and Chlöe Swarbrick are expected to deliver their ‘State of the Planet’ speeches in Wellington. The annual address is the Greens’ version of the sweeping ‘State of the Nation’ speeches delivered by the leaders ... <a title="Watch: Green Party co-leaders deliver State of the Planet update" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/19/watch-green-party-co-leaders-deliver-state-of-the-planet-update/" aria-label="Read more about Watch: Green Party co-leaders deliver State of the Planet update">Read more</a>
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April 19, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Kerikeri Road was closed for about an hour while firefighters doused the flames. Supplied A blaze that destroyed a Kerikeri charity shop was likely deliberately lit, a fire investigator says. Emergency services were alerted to the fire in a building housing a Salvation Army family store, and the Kerikeri Bakehouse and ... <a title="Kerikeri Salvation Army store fire likely deliberately lit, investigator says" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/19/kerikeri-salvation-army-store-fire-likely-deliberately-lit-investigator-says/" aria-label="Read more about Kerikeri Salvation Army store fire likely deliberately lit, investigator says">Read more</a>
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April 19, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / REECE BAKER A homicide investigation has been launched, after the death of three people in Hastings. Police were called to a house on Avenue Road East on Sunday morning, after a report of several people being seriously injured. One person was found dead upon arrival. Two people were injured ... <a title="Police launch homicide investigation after three people killed in Hastings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/19/police-launch-homicide-investigation-after-three-people-killed-in-hastings/" aria-label="Read more about Police launch homicide investigation after three people killed in Hastings">Read more</a>
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April 19, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand US Space Command emblems. Supplied The Defence Force has taken part in a wargame with the United States based on a Russian nuclear blast aimed at taking out satellites. The classified exercise was run by the American space warfighting agency, alongside 60 companies. About the same time, the government put out ... <a title="NZDF in wargame based on Russian nuke taking out satellites" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/19/nzdf-in-wargame-based-on-russian-nuke-taking-out-satellites/" aria-label="Read more about NZDF in wargame based on Russian nuke taking out satellites">Read more</a>
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April 19, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Speldhurst residents committee chairman Roger Parton has previously said increasing the speed limit outside Speldhurst would increase danger for motorists. RNZ / Jimmy Ellingham Transport officials are combing through hundreds of submissions about proposals for a full handbrake turn on state highway speed limits near Levin. The previous Labour-led government in ... <a title="NZTA receives 800 submissions on dropping highway speed near Levin" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/19/nzta-receives-800-submissions-on-dropping-highway-speed-near-levin/" aria-label="Read more about NZTA receives 800 submissions on dropping highway speed near Levin">Read more</a>
