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January 9, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Paddlers in the 2024 Waka Ama Long Distance Nationals. supplied A crew of almost 5000 paddlers are set to paddle Waikato waters this weekend in the biggest Waka Ama nationals in history. Lake Karāpiro will play host to the 2026 Waka Ama Sprint Nationals, with 800 more paddlers than last year, ... <a title="Biggest Waka Ama Nationals in history set to begin" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/09/biggest-waka-ama-nationals-in-history-set-to-begin/" aria-label="Read more about Biggest Waka Ama Nationals in history set to begin">Read more</a>
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January 9, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Stella and Paul Richards live on the road. They’ve travelled the length and breadth of New Zealand in the last three years – and their cat, Maggie, is along for the ride. The loss of two people close to them in quick succession prompted their decision to embrace life on the road, Stella told RNZ’s ... <a title="‘We’d be bored just sitting in a house all day’: The couple caravanning around NZ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/09/wed-be-bored-just-sitting-in-a-house-all-day-the-couple-caravanning-around-nz/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We’d be bored just sitting in a house all day’: The couple caravanning around NZ">Read more</a>
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January 9, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Gold Rush: Who’s cashing in on Queenstown? An RNZ series examining the money flowing into Queenstown – and who’s missing out. In Queenstown, a hotel with rooms priced up to $50,000 a night is attracting visitors willing to book not just a suite, but sometimes the whole hotel. ROKI Collection is ... <a title="Heli-golf, Aston Martin tours: How Queenstown is courting ultra-wealthy visitors" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/09/heli-golf-aston-martin-tours-how-queenstown-is-courting-ultra-wealthy-visitors/" aria-label="Read more about Heli-golf, Aston Martin tours: How Queenstown is courting ultra-wealthy visitors">Read more</a>
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January 9, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Poo anxiety, bashful bowels, shy bowel syndrome: they’re all terms for what’s medically known as parcopresis or difficulty pooping when you’re not at home. The Germans have given a name to this condition: Heimscheißer (pronounced “heimscheisser”), which means “home shitter”. Sufferers experience distress and anxiety at the mere thought of having ... <a title="Can you only poo at home? You may be a ‘heimscheisser’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/09/can-you-only-poo-at-home-you-may-be-a-heimscheisser/" aria-label="Read more about Can you only poo at home? You may be a ‘heimscheisser’">Read more</a>
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January 9, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Remember summers spent leafing through cracked, yellow pages of a dusty novel on the beach? Or staying up late speeding through the a thriller you were given for Christmas? Recent studies have linked the rise of smartphones and screen-time to increasingly short attention spans, and suggested it’s broken our reading habits. ... <a title="How to get yourself out of a reading rut" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/09/how-to-get-yourself-out-of-a-reading-rut/" aria-label="Read more about How to get yourself out of a reading rut">Read more</a>
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January 9, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / Finn Blackwell New ransom deadline arrives Deceased patients among those to have data breached Manage My Health response labelled “shambolic, frustrating and slow” Patient told she is caught up in breach after being earlier told she wasn’t A new ransom deadline is thought to have arrived as criticism mounts ... <a title="Criticism of Manage My Health cyber attack response mounts as another deadline passes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/09/criticism-of-manage-my-health-cyber-attack-response-mounts-as-another-deadline-passes/" aria-label="Read more about Criticism of Manage My Health cyber attack response mounts as another deadline passes">Read more</a>
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January 9, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Temperatures are forecast to top 30 degrees in many places around the country. RNZ / Richard Tindiller Hastings is in for a scorcher on Friday with MetService predicting it’ll be the hottest spot in the country. Temperatures are forecast to top 30 degrees in many places, and heat alerts have been ... <a title="Hastings tipped to be hottest spot as temperatures rise around the country" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/09/hastings-tipped-to-be-hottest-spot-as-temperatures-rise-around-the-country/" aria-label="Read more about Hastings tipped to be hottest spot as temperatures rise around the country">Read more</a>
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January 8, 2026
New Zealand former Invercargill and Waitematā mayor Sir Tim Shadbolt died today. He was 78. Sir Tim, who was awarded the Knight Companion of New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2019 New Year’s Honours List, served eight terms as Invercargill Mayor between 1993 and 1995, and again between 1998-2022, and two terms as Waitematā ... <a title="‘An extraordinary, charismatic man’: Sir Tim Shadbolt dies at 78" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/08/an-extraordinary-charismatic-man-sir-tim-shadbolt-dies-at-78/" aria-label="Read more about ‘An extraordinary, charismatic man’: Sir Tim Shadbolt dies at 78">Read more</a>
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January 8, 2026
The path to Caracas — and potentially next to Colombia, Cuba and Greenland, other targets of Donald Trump’s colonial greed– was paved in Gaza, writes Jonathan Cook. ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook For decades, the United States and Israel have stuck closely to their respective, scripted roles in the Middle East: the job of good cop ... <a title="Jonathan Cook: From Gaza to Venezuela, the US has been unmasked as the serial villain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/08/jonathan-cook-from-gaza-to-venezuela-the-us-has-been-unmasked-as-the-serial-villain/" aria-label="Read more about Jonathan Cook: From Gaza to Venezuela, the US has been unmasked as the serial villain">Read more</a>
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January 8, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand More than 50 pilot whales have stranded across two sites on Farewell Spit. Supplied / Project Jonah More than 50 pilot whales have stranded on Farewell Spit, as volunteers work to rescue them. Project Jonah New Zealand said on its Facebook page that, “Early this afternoon we were notified of a ... <a title="Mass whale stranding on Farewell Spit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/08/mass-whale-stranding-on-farewell-spit/" aria-label="Read more about Mass whale stranding on Farewell Spit">Read more</a>
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January 8, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Streets affected by a burst water pipe in Wellington’s Kingston. Supplied / Wellington Water More than 100 properties in the Wellington suburb of Kingston will be without water for at least six hours today due to a burst pipe. Wellington Water said the pipe burst on Kingston Heights Road at about ... <a title="Burst pipes leaves more than 100 Wellington homes without water" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/08/burst-pipes-leaves-more-than-100-wellington-homes-without-water/" aria-label="Read more about Burst pipes leaves more than 100 Wellington homes without water">Read more</a>
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January 8, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Renting in the Central Otago Lakes District region is now more expensive than Auckland. Unsplash/ Michael Amadeus Central Otago Lakes District average rents hit $891 per week National average weekly rent drops 2.4 percent to $626 per week Wellington’s average weekly rent drops 8.40 percent to $663 per week In a ... <a title="The most expensive place to rent in New Zealand is Central Otago Lakes District" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/08/the-most-expensive-place-to-rent-in-new-zealand-is-central-otago-lakes-district/" aria-label="Read more about The most expensive place to rent in New Zealand is Central Otago Lakes District">Read more</a>
