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April 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Life was looking up for man found dead after a house fire in Ruapehu, friends say The man’s boarder was killed in a car crash shortly after the fire Police launch homicide investigation. A 62-year-old man found dead after a house fire in the small Ruapehu settlement of Rangataua was getting ... <a title="Man who died in car crash was boarder at Rangataua house where body was found burned" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/23/man-who-died-in-car-crash-was-boarder-at-rangataua-house-where-body-was-found-burned/" aria-label="Read more about Man who died in car crash was boarder at Rangataua house where body was found burned">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The Dawn Service has been part of Anzac Day commemorations across New Zealand since 1939. The service, which traditionally begins with a military parade, is a formal way to honour New Zealanders killed in combat, as well as servicemen and women both returned and still serving. Attendance at dawn services has ... <a title="What to do, and not do, at an Anzac Day Dawn Service" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/23/what-to-do-and-not-do-at-an-anzac-day-dawn-service/" aria-label="Read more about What to do, and not do, at an Anzac Day Dawn Service">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Nine parked wagons in a Port Chalmers yard slowly rolled back and hit a locomotive in January last year. Donovan Govan, Otago Regional Council Transport accident investigators are calling on KiwiRail to improve its safety culture at Port Otago. The Transport Accident Investigation Commission (TAIC) on Thursday released its final report ... <a title="Transport accident investigators call for better safety culture at KiwiRail after Port Otago near miss" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/23/transport-accident-investigators-call-for-better-safety-culture-at-kiwirail-after-port-otago-near-miss/" aria-label="Read more about Transport accident investigators call for better safety culture at KiwiRail after Port Otago near miss">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The stairs that Dinson Thomas has to carry his daughter up in order to get inside their home. SUPPLIED A farmer in Queenstown has offered to pay the shortfall for a lift so a dad does not have to carry his teenage daughter from her wheelchair to their front door. The ... <a title="Queenstown farmer offers to pay for lift after hearing of dad forced to carry disabled daughter" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/23/queenstown-farmer-offers-to-pay-for-lift-after-hearing-of-dad-forced-to-carry-disabled-daughter/" aria-label="Read more about Queenstown farmer offers to pay for lift after hearing of dad forced to carry disabled daughter">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand If you went swimming at Piha Beach in West Auckland any weekend last summer, it’s almost certain that 75-year-old Karel Witten-Hannah was one of your guardians. Over the last summer he recalls the young woman who thought she was dying (Witten-Hannah “pinky promised” that she wasn’t) and another young woman who ... <a title="New Zealand’s most dedicated lifeguard is 75 – he’s still saving lives" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/23/new-zealands-most-dedicated-lifeguard-is-75-hes-still-saving-lives/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand’s most dedicated lifeguard is 75 – he’s still saving lives">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Jone Vakarisi was heard screaming and begging, according to his sister. Supplied Jone Vakarisi was heard screaming and begging before he was “brutalised to death” in Fiji military custody last week, according to his sister. Melehola Tagaga told Pacific Waves that the well known drug pusher was asked if he was ... <a title="‘His life mattered’: Sister of man who died in military custody speaks out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/23/his-life-mattered-sister-of-man-who-died-in-military-custody-speaks-out/" aria-label="Read more about ‘His life mattered’: Sister of man who died in military custody speaks out">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The much-missed bells of the carillon in Wellington are playing again. Silent for most of the last 14 years, this Saturday they will be heard at the national Anzac commemorations at the national war memorial in Pukeahu Park. Inside the belltower, open now that quake strengthening had been done using a ... <a title="Pukeahu National War Memorial Park bells to sound on Anzac Day after long silence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/23/pukeahu-national-war-memorial-park-bells-to-sound-on-anzac-day-after-long-silence/" aria-label="Read more about Pukeahu National War Memorial Park bells to sound on Anzac Day after long silence">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand NZEI President Ripeka Lessels, the head of the country’s largest education sector union. NZEI supplied Hundreds of principals and thousands of teachers remain opposed to the government’s curriculum overhaul as consultation closes on Friday. Thirty-nine local and regional principals associations and six teacher subject associations have now signed a letter started ... <a title="Dozens of principal, teacher associations sign letter opposed to government’s curriculum changes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/23/dozens-of-principal-teacher-associations-sign-letter-opposed-to-governments-curriculum-changes/" aria-label="Read more about Dozens of principal, teacher associations sign letter opposed to government’s curriculum changes">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand By Mata Che Wilson. Supplied / Aukaha Former Te Pāti Māori president Che Wilson has sparked debate following a controversial haka performed at the Tainui Regional Kapa Haka competition over the weekend. The haka, directed at ACT MP Parmjeet Parmar, included the phrase “purari karikari iniana”, which has been interpreted as ... <a title="Former Te Pāti Māori president’s haka targeting ACT MP Parmjeet Parmar sparks backlash" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/23/former-te-pati-maori-presidents-haka-targeting-act-mp-parmjeet-parmar-sparks-backlash/" aria-label="Read more about Former Te Pāti Māori president’s haka targeting ACT MP Parmjeet Parmar sparks backlash">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand As the market slumps again, sellers are facing the prospect of gambling on a recovery or just cutting their losses. RNZ / Quin Tauetau New Zealand’s property market is facing another slow patch – leaving some owners who bought in the post-Covid peak wondering what to do next. Cotality’s latest data ... <a title="Property investors who ‘drank the Kool-Aid’ wondering whether to take a loss" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/23/property-investors-who-drank-the-kool-aid-wondering-whether-to-take-a-loss/" aria-label="Read more about Property investors who ‘drank the Kool-Aid’ wondering whether to take a loss">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ/Marika Khabazi A person has been rescued from a property fire in the Auckland suburb of Takanini on Wednesday. Emergency services received multiple calls about people potentially being trapped in a one-storey property about 6.20pm. FENZ northern communications shift manager Ryan Geen said crews found one person inside, who was taken ... <a title="Person rescued from property fire in Auckland’s Takanini" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/person-rescued-from-property-fire-in-aucklands-takanini/" aria-label="Read more about Person rescued from property fire in Auckland’s Takanini">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Helen Dickinson, Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Sydney In sweeping reforms to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) announced today, the government will cut 160,000 participants from the scheme over the next four years and reduce funding for the average plan by A$5,000 in the next two ... <a title="Tightened eligibility and cuts to plans: what the NDIS changes mean for participants" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/tightened-eligibility-and-cuts-to-plans-what-the-ndis-changes-mean-for-participants-281147/" aria-label="Read more about Tightened eligibility and cuts to plans: what the NDIS changes mean for participants">Read more</a>
