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December 5, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The Karanga-a-Hape underground station will house the longest escalator in New Zealand, at 40 metres long Supplied: CRL Those in charge of the country’s most expensive transport infrastructure are confident the new timetable for opening will stick – but they won’t name a date. Auckland’s $5.5 billion City Rail Link has ... <a title="Testing, testing and more testing for the country’s biggest transport job: Auckland’s CRL" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/05/testing-testing-and-more-testing-for-the-countrys-biggest-transport-job-aucklands-crl/" aria-label="Read more about Testing, testing and more testing for the country’s biggest transport job: Auckland’s CRL">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand About 95 percent of feedback on the Fast Track amendment bill is opposed. RNZ / Samuel Rillstone About 95 percent of feedback on the fast-track amendment bill is opposed, with the coalition-majority select committee reporting back after less than a month. The government intends to pass the legislation, which it says ... <a title="95 percent of fast-track amendment bill submitters opposed to changes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/05/95-percent-of-fast-track-amendment-bill-submitters-opposed-to-changes/" aria-label="Read more about 95 percent of fast-track amendment bill submitters opposed to changes">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand An IRD mistake resulted in more than 4000 incorrect tax bills More than 4000 people have been affected by an Inland Revenue error that could have meant they paid the wrong amount of tax. RNZ was contacted by a reader who said he had noticed the error when he went to ... <a title="IRD error shortchanges thousands of taxpayers by an average of $300 each" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/05/ird-error-shortchanges-thousands-of-taxpayers-by-an-average-of-300-each/" aria-label="Read more about IRD error shortchanges thousands of taxpayers by an average of $300 each">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Auckland has welcomed the first passengers transiting on what has been dubbed the “world’s longest direct flight”. A new China Eastern Airlines service from Shanghai to Buenos Aires landed in Auckland just after 6pm on Thursday. The route departs from Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport and is scheduled to take roughly 25 ... <a title="Auckland welcomes world’s longest direct flight, linking China and South America" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/05/auckland-welcomes-worlds-longest-direct-flight-linking-china-and-south-america/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland welcomes world’s longest direct flight, linking China and South America">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The Kmart 14-piece Sandcastle Building Set, Blue Magic Sand, Green Magic Sand, Pink Magic Sand have been found to contain asbestos. Supplied / MBIE Kmart has cancelled the recall notices that were in force for three of its coloured sand products caught in the asbestos contamination scare. MBIE said it had ... <a title="Kmart cancels recalls for three coloured sand products caught up in scare" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/kmart-cancels-recalls-for-three-coloured-sand-products-caught-up-in-scare/" aria-label="Read more about Kmart cancels recalls for three coloured sand products caught up in scare">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand For more than 30 years, residents on Auckland’s Franklin Road have decked out their properties with Christmas decorations for the rest of the city to enjoy. Despite prevalent rumours and conspiracy theories that the popular street-wide display is “funded by the electricity companies” or “organised by the council”, Roscoe Thorby – ... <a title="Watch: Take a walk through Auckland’s Franklin Road Christmas light show" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/watch-take-a-walk-through-aucklands-franklin-road-christmas-light-show/" aria-label="Read more about Watch: Take a walk through Auckland’s Franklin Road Christmas light show">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand For more than 30 years, residents on Auckland’s Franklin Road have decked out their properties with Christmas decorations for the rest of the city to enjoy. Despite prevalent rumours and conspiracy theories that the popular street-wide display is “funded by the electricity companies” or “organised by the council”, Roscoe Thorby – ... <a title="Watch live: Take a walk through Auckland’s Franklin Road Christmas light show" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/watch-live-take-a-walk-through-aucklands-franklin-road-christmas-light-show/" aria-label="Read more about Watch live: Take a walk through Auckland’s Franklin Road Christmas light show">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Haeata Community Campus said they have recalled all of the lunches due to the contamination, but some had already been eaten by students. Supplied The food safety regulator says it’s seen CCTV footage from a Christchurch school, which shows that mouldy lunches were served to students because of a mix up ... <a title="Principal says school not to blame for mouldy lunches as authorities review footage" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/principal-says-school-not-to-blame-for-mouldy-lunches-as-authorities-review-footage/" aria-label="Read more about Principal says school not to blame for mouldy lunches as authorities review footage">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Austin Oliver and Angus Robson at the cordoned off entrance to a once popular walking track. LDR/SUPPLIED About 100 people crowded into the Whakatāne District Council chambers on Wednesday in a show of support for the restoration of Ōhope Beach’s iconic West End walkway. A second meeting room with video and ... <a title="Health and safety paralysis holding back walkway – volunteers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/health-and-safety-paralysis-holding-back-walkway-volunteers/" aria-label="Read more about Health and safety paralysis holding back walkway – volunteers">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The Tom & Luke’s Low Carb Raspberry Snacka Balls is one of three batches to be recalled SUPPLIED A brand of snack balls is being pulled off shelves after plastic was found inside some of them. New Zealand Food Safety (NZFS) said specific batches of Tom & Luke’s Low Carb Snacka ... <a title="A batch of Tom & Luke’s Low Carb Snacka Balls was recalled after plastic was found inside" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/a-batch-of-tom-lukes-low-carb-snacka-balls-was-recalled-after-plastic-was-found-inside/" aria-label="Read more about A batch of Tom & Luke’s Low Carb Snacka Balls was recalled after plastic was found inside">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand [authro:rnz_online] Dunedin’s Investigation Support Unit was seeing more people falling victim to scams and other fraud, particularly on Facebook Marketplace. 123RF Police are warning of increasing scammer activity online ahead of the festive season. Dunedin’s Investigation Support Unit was seeing more people falling victim to scams and other fraud, particularly on ... <a title="Scammer activity on the rise ahead of Christmas period, police say" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/scammer-activity-on-the-rise-ahead-of-christmas-period-police-say/" aria-label="Read more about Scammer activity on the rise ahead of Christmas period, police say">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Hone Daniels and two other men stormed The Riv Sports Bar on the night of December 14, 2022, and forced a staff member to open the safe at gunpoint. NZME/SUPPLED A man who robbed a sports bar tried to claim it couldn’t have been him because he was busy doing his ... <a title="Hamilton armed robber Hone Daniels claimed he was doing his laundry, not robbing a pub" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/hamilton-armed-robber-hone-daniels-claimed-he-was-doing-his-laundry-not-robbing-a-pub/" aria-label="Read more about Hamilton armed robber Hone Daniels claimed he was doing his laundry, not robbing a pub">Read more</a>
