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December 25, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand MetService said a front was moving northwards over the South Island into early Christmas morning. Screenshot / MetService It’s set to be a wet and windy Christmas Day for parts of the South Island, with heavy rain forecast for the west coast, and gales expected in Canterbury. MetService said a front ... <a title="Christmas Day brings wet and windy weather for some" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/25/christmas-day-brings-wet-and-windy-weather-for-some/" aria-label="Read more about Christmas Day brings wet and windy weather for some">Read more</a>
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December 25, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Melling Station. Supplied / Metlink A Lower Hutt train station has seen its last service for about three years ahead of major infrastructure works. The final service between Wellington and Melling train stations ran at 6.37pm on Wednesday. Greater Wellington Regional Council said the infrastructure project, Te Wai Takamori o Te ... <a title="All alight: Final train departs Melling Station ahead of RiverLink upgrades" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/25/all-alight-final-train-departs-melling-station-ahead-of-riverlink-upgrades/" aria-label="Read more about All alight: Final train departs Melling Station ahead of RiverLink upgrades">Read more</a>
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December 25, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand On Christmas morning in 1975, 20-year-old Lee Scanlon was partially sedated, in labour with twins, and flying in a light aircraft through a thunderstorm over the West Coast. “I can remember a big bump at one stage and thinking, ‘oh, the plane’s crashed. Good’,” she says, laughing now. After being in ... <a title="Why it’s rare to give birth on Christmas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/25/why-its-rare-to-give-birth-on-christmas/" aria-label="Read more about Why it’s rare to give birth on Christmas">Read more</a>
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December 25, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The house is covered in torn wrapping paper, you’ve been eating and drinking since the moment you woke up, the family bickering has begun and you forgot to buy spare batteries for the kids’ toys. Honestly, the wind down from Christmas day is both exhausting and a little dull. So before ... <a title="What to watch on Christmas Day" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/25/what-to-watch-on-christmas-day/" aria-label="Read more about What to watch on Christmas Day">Read more</a>
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December 25, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Before suffering a serious stroke in 2009, Chris Knox was one of our most prolific and provocative music-makers. It might say something about the nature of New Zealand that a person can go from being an iconoclast to a household name without having fundamentally changed anything about who they are or ... <a title="What makes Chris Knox’s Seizure an essential album" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/25/what-makes-chris-knoxs-seizure-an-essential-album/" aria-label="Read more about What makes Chris Knox’s Seizure an essential album">Read more</a>
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December 25, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Melling Station. Supplied / Metlink A Lower Hutt train station has seen its last service for about three years ahead of major infrastructure works. The final service between Wellington and Melling train stations ran at 6.37pm on Wednesday. Greater Wellington Regional Council said the infrastructure project, Te Wai Takamori o Te ... <a title="All alight: Final train departs from Melling Station ahead of RiverLink upgrades" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/25/all-alight-final-train-departs-from-melling-station-ahead-of-riverlink-upgrades/" aria-label="Read more about All alight: Final train departs from Melling Station ahead of RiverLink upgrades">Read more</a>
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December 25, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Did we “survive 2025,” and will there be a fix for ’26? RNZ Depending on who you talked to, we were meant to be surviving til 2025, or even thriving in ’25. But when attention turned to whether there was a new phrase to indicate that businesses needed to hold on ... <a title="‘Easier to get growth out of an economic hole’ – Did we survive 2025?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/25/easier-to-get-growth-out-of-an-economic-hole-did-we-survive-2025/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Easier to get growth out of an economic hole’ – Did we survive 2025?">Read more</a>
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December 24, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Police were called to an aggravated robbery on Mill Street at about 6.40am. RNZ / Marika Khabazi Three youths have been arrested following a Christmas Eve robbery in Hamilton. Police were called to the aggravated robbery on Mill Street at about 6.40am. Hamilton City Area Commander Inspector Neil Faulkner said the ... <a title="Three youths arrested after Christmas Eve robbery in Hamilton" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/24/three-youths-arrested-after-christmas-eve-robbery-in-hamilton/" aria-label="Read more about Three youths arrested after Christmas Eve robbery in Hamilton">Read more</a>
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December 24, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand What is going on with our eel population? Uncovering he mystery behind eel breed has proven to be a difficult task, but passionate scientists are far from calling it quits. Senior lecturer at AUT, Dr Amandine Sabadel is a chemist, ecologist, environmental scientist and an eel expert. She told The run ... <a title="Uncovering the mysteries behind eel migration and spawning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/24/uncovering-the-mysteries-behind-eel-migration-and-spawning/" aria-label="Read more about Uncovering the mysteries behind eel migration and spawning">Read more</a>
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December 24, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / Nate McKinnon The High Court has ruled Canterbury’s regional council erred when it allowed farms to discharge nitrates and other pollution without resource consents, but stopped short of ordering it to change the rule. The decision comes as the region grapples with increasing levels of nitrate in its waterways, ... <a title="Nitrates in water: ECan’s rule-making fell short of law over allowing discharges, High Court rules" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/24/nitrates-in-water-ecans-rule-making-fell-short-of-law-over-allowing-discharges-high-court-rules/" aria-label="Read more about Nitrates in water: ECan’s rule-making fell short of law over allowing discharges, High Court rules">Read more</a>
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December 24, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand What is going on with our eel population? Uncovering he mystery behind eel breed has proven to be a difficult task, but passionate scientists are far from calling it quits. Senior lecturer at AUT, Dr Amandine Sabadel is a chemist, ecologist, environmental scientist and an eel expert. She told The run ... <a title="Unvcovering the mysteries behind eel migration and spawning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/24/unvcovering-the-mysteries-behind-eel-migration-and-spawning/" aria-label="Read more about Unvcovering the mysteries behind eel migration and spawning">Read more</a>
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December 24, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Kāeo’s water treatment plant has resumed operation after a 67-day shutdown, just in time for Christmas. (File photo) RNZ / Peter de Graaf A Far North town has received a very welcome Christmas present – running water for the first time in more than two months. Residents of Kāeo, about 30km ... <a title="Far North town, Kāeo, gets running water for first time in more than two months" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/24/far-north-town-kaeo-gets-running-water-for-first-time-in-more-than-two-months/" aria-label="Read more about Far North town, Kāeo, gets running water for first time in more than two months">Read more</a>
