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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand There are about 25,000 long-term claimants that have been receiving compensation for a year or more, the most there had ever been. A move by ACC to use artificial intelligence to help decide which long-term claimants should go back to work is being called “shocking”. It comes as the state insurer ... <a title="ACC’s use of AI to help decide who gets help shocks advocate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/accs-use-of-ai-to-help-decide-who-gets-help-shocks-advocate/" aria-label="Read more about ACC’s use of AI to help decide who gets help shocks advocate">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Explainer – How will firearms proposals change access to guns in New Zealand? Here’s what you need to know. New Zealand is planning its biggest overhaul of gun regulations in more than 40 years. The proposal announced last week would repeal and replace the 1983 Arms Act in legislation Associate Justice ... <a title="What the government’s firearms act reform proposals will change – and what they won’t" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/what-the-governments-firearms-act-reform-proposals-will-change-and-what-they-wont/" aria-label="Read more about What the government’s firearms act reform proposals will change – and what they won’t">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Comvita products on display. Supplied The takeover bid for honey exporter Comvita has failed after not enough shareholders approved of the offer. The company’s board had vigorously pushed shareholders to vote in favour of a $56 million deal with Florenz, owned by Canterbury businessman Mark Stewart. However, the bid failed to ... <a title="Comvita takeover bid fails" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/comvita-takeover-bid-fails/" aria-label="Read more about Comvita takeover bid fails">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Monty Knight was a well-known wine-maker, entrepreneur and local politician in Kaitāia, inducted into the Northland Business Hall of Fame in 2010. RNZ/Carol Stiles The man killed at his home near Kaitāia on Sunday was one of the Far North’s best-known businessmen as well as a former district councillor and mayoral ... <a title="Well-known Northland entrepreneur Monty Knight named as alleged murder victim" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/well-known-northland-entrepreneur-monty-knight-named-as-alleged-murder-victim/" aria-label="Read more about Well-known Northland entrepreneur Monty Knight named as alleged murder victim">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly A 57-year-old woman has been charged with murder following the death of a man in Kaitaia. Emergency services were called to an Okahu Road address shortly after midday on Sunday following a report of assault. The man was found critically injured but despite efforts by emergency services, ... <a title="Woman charged with murder following death of man in Northland’s Kaitaia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/woman-charged-with-murder-following-death-of-man-in-northlands-kaitaia/" aria-label="Read more about Woman charged with murder following death of man in Northland’s Kaitaia">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand August, Hugo, and Goldie died in a house fire in Sanson on Saturday. GIVEALITTLE / SUPPLIED The three children killed in a Sanson house fire have been identified on a page set up by the loved ones of their mother. The children have been named as August, Hugo and Goldie, aged ... <a title="‘Loss beyond measure’: Three children killed in Sanson house fire identified" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/loss-beyond-measure-three-children-killed-in-sanson-house-fire-identified/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Loss beyond measure’: Three children killed in Sanson house fire identified">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Christchurch Hospital. RNZ / Nate McKinnon Health NZ has confirmed two separate outbreaks of superbugs at Christchurch Hospital. Two different strains of antibiotic antibiotic-resistant enterococci have been identified on one ward. Health NZ Canterbury and West Coast nursing director Dr Sarah Berger said there were “fewer than 10 patients” with the ... <a title="Two antibiotic-resistant superbugs found at Christchurch Hospital" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/two-antibiotic-resistant-superbugs-found-at-christchurch-hospital/" aria-label="Read more about Two antibiotic-resistant superbugs found at Christchurch Hospital">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly A 57-year-old woman has been charged with murder following the death of a man in Kaitaia. Emergency services were called to an Okahu Road address shortly after midday on Sunday following a report of assault. The man was found critically injured but despite efforts by emergency services, ... <a title="Woman charged with muder following death of man in Northland’s Kaitaia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/woman-charged-with-muder-following-death-of-man-in-northlands-kaitaia/" aria-label="Read more about Woman charged with muder following death of man in Northland’s Kaitaia">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand A hornets’ nest. Supplied Spraying to eradicate the yellow legged hornet is not currently in Biosecurity New Zealand’s plans. Biosecurity New Zealand North Commissioner Mike Inglis told Morning Report international and domestic experts continue to advise they target the use of traps. More of the invasive pests and their nests were ... <a title="Hornet incursion: No plans to spray invaders – yet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/hornet-incursion-no-plans-to-spray-invaders-yet/" aria-label="Read more about Hornet incursion: No plans to spray invaders – yet">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand 123RF The electricity sector regulator wants to be able to intervene to control prices for connecting to electricity networks. The Electricity Authority said some lines companies were charging high up-front costs for connections, which can be a barrier to development, slow down electrification and leave consumers worse off. The authority’s general ... <a title="High electricity connection costs a barrier for development – Electricity Authority" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/high-electricity-connection-costs-a-barrier-for-development-electricity-authority/" aria-label="Read more about High electricity connection costs a barrier for development – Electricity Authority">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand A teenager with type 1 diabetes uses a CGM – a continuous glucose monitoring device. Amelie Benoist / BSIP via AFP A specialist in treating childhood diabetes says that some children are born “almost what we call ‘programmed’” to have the disease – but new medicine could help put them in ... <a title="How Kiwi kids are becoming the new face of ‘adult’ diabetes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/how-kiwi-kids-are-becoming-the-new-face-of-adult-diabetes/" aria-label="Read more about How Kiwi kids are becoming the new face of ‘adult’ diabetes">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The aftermath of a scooter accident in central Auckland, November 2025. Dan Lake / RNZ A person has been taken to hospital in a serious condition from an e-scooter crash in Auckland’s CBD. It happened at the intersection of Cook and Nelson Streets just after 5.15am Monday. Police, St John and ... <a title="Crash puts e-scooter rider in hospital" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/crash-puts-e-scooter-rider-in-hospital/" aria-label="Read more about Crash puts e-scooter rider in hospital">Read more</a>
