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February 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / REECE BAKER Police are appealing for public help after a pedestrian was hit and killed by a car and the driver left the scene. It happened in Te Anau at about 8.45am outside a business in the town centre. Police want to speak with the driver, and want to ... <a title="Witnesses sought after pedestrian killed in Te Anau hit and run" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/23/witnesses-sought-after-pedestrian-killed-in-te-anau-hit-and-run/" aria-label="Read more about Witnesses sought after pedestrian killed in Te Anau hit and run">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Passengers remain stranded at Guadalajara International Airport following flight suspensions and lack of transport in Tlajomulco, Jalisco State, Mexico, on February 22, 2026. ULISES RUIZ/AFP The government is urging New Zealanders in Mexico to monitor updates and follow the advice of local authorities after the death of a mexican drug lord ... <a title="Government advises Kiwis in Mexico to monitor updates after security and travel disruptions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/23/government-advises-kiwis-in-mexico-to-monitor-updates-after-security-and-travel-disruptions/" aria-label="Read more about Government advises Kiwis in Mexico to monitor updates after security and travel disruptions">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand District nurses who have done the job for decades say understaffing is the worst it has ever been. File photo. 123rf.com Waikato district nurses are at the end of their tether, as demand for their services soars. District nurses – who provide care for patients in the community rather than in ... <a title="‘It has been a very invisible service’ – district nurses struggle with understaffing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/23/it-has-been-a-very-invisible-service-district-nurses-struggle-with-understaffing/" aria-label="Read more about ‘It has been a very invisible service’ – district nurses struggle with understaffing">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Taiwhakaea Osborne is in the second year of the Pāmu scheme. RNZ / Jimmy Ellingham Teenage farmers are getting put through their paces in a new scheme helping youngsters enter the industry. Government-owned company Pāmu has 19 apprentices learning the ropes at its farms, which many will go on to work ... <a title="New teen farmers get a shedful of sheep to learn the ropes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/23/new-teen-farmers-get-a-shedful-of-sheep-to-learn-the-ropes/" aria-label="Read more about New teen farmers get a shedful of sheep to learn the ropes">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Austin, Senior Lecturer in Theatre, The University of Melbourne In the shadow of Franz Kafka’s visionary dystopian fiction, the faceless, hierarchical machinery of bureaucracy has long served as a symbol of quiet, grinding despair. Kafka’s institutions are at once impenetrable and absurd, systems that trap individuals ... <a title="Jean Tong’s Do Not Pass Go is Kafka for the modern corporate age" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/23/jean-tongs-do-not-pass-go-is-kafka-for-the-modern-corporate-age-274979/" aria-label="Read more about Jean Tong’s Do Not Pass Go is Kafka for the modern corporate age">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The no go zones include Ōwhiro and Island bays. RNZ / Samuel Rillstone A business owner who has lost tens of thousands of dollars due to Wellington’s sewage leak wants a more targeted rāhui so beach users can return to parts of the coast that are currently off limits. The city’s ... <a title="Wellington business losing thousands after sewage leak restrictions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/23/wellington-business-losing-thousands-after-sewage-leak-restrictions/" aria-label="Read more about Wellington business losing thousands after sewage leak restrictions">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand KiwiRail has to meet budget cuts of $200 million over the next three years. Supplied by Kiwirail Companies sending goods up and down the country’s railways could begin to favour road transport as KiwiRail manages declining assets, an expert says. KiwiRail is focusing on upgrades and electrification in Auckland, Hamilton and ... <a title="Companies could favour road as KiwiRail assets face decline" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/23/companies-could-favour-road-as-kiwirail-assets-face-decline/" aria-label="Read more about Companies could favour road as KiwiRail assets face decline">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand There have been eight times more applications than jobs on Student Job Search. 123rf Student Job Search says the number of students trying to find work is heartbreaking. The government-funded employment organisation has seen thousands more applications than it has vacancies on offer. In January, it had 4600 jobs listed and ... <a title="Students struggling to find part-time work" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/23/students-struggling-to-find-part-time-work/" aria-label="Read more about Students struggling to find part-time work">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Slips at Muriwai following Cyclone Gabrielle. RNZ / Finn Blackwell Residents of Auckland’s Muriwai have described their frantic escape from landslides during Cyclone Gabrielle in 2023. A coronial inquest is investigating the deaths of volunteer firefighters Craig Stevens and Dave van Zwanenberg after they were critically injured in a landslip. The ... <a title="Muriwai residents describe escape from Cyclone Gabrielle landslides" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/23/muriwai-residents-describe-escape-from-cyclone-gabrielle-landslides/" aria-label="Read more about Muriwai residents describe escape from Cyclone Gabrielle landslides">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steve Turton, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geography, CQUniversity Australia On average, Australia’s driest town, Oodnadatta, gets just 172mm of rain a year. But the small town in inland South Australia is likely to get two years’ worth of rain in a single week. Rainfall records are likely ... <a title="Severe flooding – in central Australia? How a vast humid air mass could soak the desert" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/23/severe-flooding-in-central-australia-how-a-vast-humid-air-mass-could-soak-the-desert-276618/" aria-label="Read more about Severe flooding – in central Australia? How a vast humid air mass could soak the desert">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The medals include a 1939-1945 star, an Atlantic star, a Burma star, and the 1939-1945 war medal. SUPPLIED/POLICE Police have recovered four historic war medals during a search at a Palmerston North address and are now looking to find the owners. The medals were found during a search at an address ... <a title="Historic war medals found during search, police looking for owners" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/23/historic-war-medals-found-during-search-police-looking-for-owners/" aria-label="Read more about Historic war medals found during search, police looking for owners">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jodie Avery, Research Co-Lead, Chronic Reproductive Health Conditions, Robinson Research Institute, Adelaide University If you live with pelvic pain, period pain, sex or bowel symptoms, you may have been told you could have endometriosis, and that surgery is the “gold standard” for diagnosis and treatment. But over ... <a title="Is surgery necessary for my endometriosis or ‘suspected’ endo?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/23/is-surgery-necessary-for-my-endometriosis-or-suspected-endo-276365/" aria-label="Read more about Is surgery necessary for my endometriosis or ‘suspected’ endo?">Read more</a>
