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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Philippa Wright says they’re “extremely lucky” the water didn’t go inside their home. Supplied / Philippa Wright A grandmother who fled rising floodwaters with her moko is overwhelmed by the scale of destruction in her East Coast community. “I’ve probably walked around in circles a thousand times,” Philippa Wright told RNZ ... <a title="Te Araroa grandmother describes harrowing escape from wall of floodwaters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/te-araroa-grandmother-describes-harrowing-escape-from-wall-of-floodwaters/" aria-label="Read more about Te Araroa grandmother describes harrowing escape from wall of floodwaters">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand National and Labour are joining forces to get modern slavery legislation into Parliament, using a new process to skip the biscuit tin for the first time. National’s Greg Fleming and Labour’s Camilla Belich have agreed to co-sponsor the bill. The bill strengthens reporting to Parliament, brings in public naming and potential ... <a title="Watch: National and Labour MPs team up to get slavery bill heard" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/watch-national-and-labour-mps-team-up-to-get-slavery-bill-heard/" aria-label="Read more about Watch: National and Labour MPs team up to get slavery bill heard">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ A former Education Ministry employee says development of the new school curriculum was heavily politicised, causing extensive rewrites and sidelining subject experts. Claire Coleman made the allegations during a submission to Parliament’s Education and Workforce Select Committee on the government’s Education and Training (System Reform) Amendment Bill. She told the ... <a title="Ex-Education Ministry staffer says new school curriculum heavily politicised" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/ex-education-ministry-staffer-says-new-school-curriculum-heavily-politicised/" aria-label="Read more about Ex-Education Ministry staffer says new school curriculum heavily politicised">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand National and Labour are joining forces to get modern slavery legislation into Parliament, using a new process to skip the biscuit tin for the first time. National’s Greg Fleming and Labour’s Camilla Belich have agreed to co-sponsor the bill. The bill strengthens reporting to Parliament, brings in public naming and potential ... <a title="Watch live: National and Labour MPs team up to get slavery bill heard" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/watch-live-national-and-labour-mps-team-up-to-get-slavery-bill-heard/" aria-label="Read more about Watch live: National and Labour MPs team up to get slavery bill heard">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Police at the helicopter crash in Paekākāriki Hill on Wednesday. RNZ/Samuel Rillstone Police have recovered the bodies from a fatal helicopter crash north of Wellington. The crash happened near Paekākāriki Hill on Wednesday morning. Both the pilot and a passenger were found dead. Kāpiti-Mana Area Commander Inspector Renée Perkins said in ... <a title="Police recover bodies of pilot, passenger from helicopter crash near Paekākāriki Hill" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/police-recover-bodies-of-pilot-passenger-from-helicopter-crash-near-paekakariki-hill/" aria-label="Read more about Police recover bodies of pilot, passenger from helicopter crash near Paekākāriki Hill">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand A landslide at State Highway 35, Punaruku, on the way to Hicks Bay on the East Coast. Supplied A crew of volunteers on quad bikes are delivering essentials and doing welfare checks for residents with cut off homes in the flood-hit East Cape. The volunteers had been dropping off gas bottles ... <a title="Volunteers use quad bikes to deliver essentials to cut-off residents in storm hit East Cape" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/volunteers-use-quad-bikes-to-deliver-essentials-to-cut-off-residents-in-storm-hit-east-cape/" aria-label="Read more about Volunteers use quad bikes to deliver essentials to cut-off residents in storm hit East Cape">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Damage to State Highway 35 from a landslide. Supplied / NZTA Work is continuing on opening roads in the North Island after last week’s severe weather wreaked havoc on the transport network. Slips and flooding have significantly damaged State Highway 35 on the East Coast and State Highway 25 in the ... <a title="Work continues to reopen significantly damaged state highways" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/work-continues-to-reopen-significantly-damaged-state-highways/" aria-label="Read more about Work continues to reopen significantly damaged state highways">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand School uniforms can cost hundreds of dollars. RNZ / Richard Tindiller The head of an Auckland high school is defending high uniform costs, arguing it is in students’ best interests. Westlake Boys High School headmaster Paul Fordham told Morning Report while he acknowledged the start of the year was an expensive ... <a title="Students learn better in uniform, headmaster says, brushing off cost concerns" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/students-learn-better-in-uniform-headmaster-says-brushing-off-cost-concerns/" aria-label="Read more about Students learn better in uniform, headmaster says, brushing off cost concerns">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The media KiwiSaver balanced fund returned 1.7 percent for the quarter. (File photo) Unsplash Warnings of impending share market doom didn’t play out in 2025, and the year ended with solid returns for KiwiSaver investors – and some change at the top of the performance tables. Actuarial firm MJW has released ... <a title="Strong three years for KiwiSaver members, as new player takes top spot" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/strong-three-years-for-kiwisaver-members-as-new-player-takes-top-spot/" aria-label="Read more about Strong three years for KiwiSaver members, as new player takes top spot">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The man was taken to hospital where he remained in a critical condition. (File photo) RNZ / Richard Tindiller A man has been critically injured in an assault in Hamilton overnight. Detective Sergeant Johnathon O’Byrne said the man was found by police on Avalon Drive at 2.40am on Thursday and he ... <a title="Man critically injured after overnight assault in Hamilton" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/man-critically-injured-after-overnight-assault-in-hamilton/" aria-label="Read more about Man critically injured after overnight assault in Hamilton">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand For his latest novel, Softly Calls the Devil, Chris Blake has stepped out from behind the pseudonym he used for his debut. He published The Sound of Her Voice – a double finalist in the 2018 Ngaio Marsh Awards – as Nathan Blackwell, a name he adopted to keep his writing ... <a title="Cop-turned-author drops his fake pen name" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/cop-turned-author-drops-his-fake-pen-name/" aria-label="Read more about Cop-turned-author drops his fake pen name">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Damage from the Auckland Anniversary Weekend floods, from top left: Derek Judge’s Swanson home was flooded by the rapidly rising Waimoko Stream; houses in Swanson sit abandoned and vandalised in November; Andrew Marshall’s red-stricken house in Swanson is still being hit by vandals a year on from the floods; Julie Armstrong’s ... <a title="Auckland homeowners facing further flood risk head to court" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/auckland-homeowners-facing-further-flood-risk-head-to-court/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland homeowners facing further flood risk head to court">Read more</a>
