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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Dunedin South Woolworths supermarket was closed for nearly three weeks due to a rat problem. RNZ / Tess Brunton Woolworths New Zealand has pleaded guilty to failing to properly deal with a rat infestation at its Dunedin South supermarket. The company appeared at the Dunedin District Court before Judge David Robinson ... <a title="Woolworths NZ pleads guilty over Dunedin supermarket rat infestation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/woolworths-nz-pleads-guilty-over-dunedin-supermarket-rat-infestation/" aria-label="Read more about Woolworths NZ pleads guilty over Dunedin supermarket rat infestation">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The site has been cordoned off and an investigation is underway. Matthew Rosenberg/LDR More than a million dollars’ worth of trucks and equipment have been destroyed in a suspected arson in a popular Invercargill park. Police are investigating after the fire was reported early on Wednesday morning in Queens Park. Invercargill ... <a title="Suspicious Invercargill blaze destroys more than $1m worth of gear" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/suspicious-invercargill-blaze-destroys-more-than-1m-worth-of-gear/" aria-label="Read more about Suspicious Invercargill blaze destroys more than $1m worth of gear">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly Dairy giant Fonterra has increased its first quarter profits to $278 million, $15m more than a year ago. Key numbers for the quarter ended 31st October: Net profit $278m up $15m Forecast FY earnings unchanged at 45-65cps Midpoint milk price forecast $9.50 per kgMS Lactalis gains OIS ... <a title="Fonterra profits rise in first quarter" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/fonterra-profits-rise-in-first-quarter/" aria-label="Read more about Fonterra profits rise in first quarter">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / Nate McKinnon Mobile network company 2degrees says it is aware some customers are experiencing issues with connecting, receiving, or making calls on their mobile devices. 2degrees’ website says a nationwide fault was under repair since about 4am on Thursday morning. The company said it was sorry for the inconvenience ... <a title="Mobile phone issues for some 2degrees customers due to nationwide fault" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/mobile-phone-issues-for-some-2degrees-customers-due-to-nationwide-fault/" aria-label="Read more about Mobile phone issues for some 2degrees customers due to nationwide fault">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand It’s been a great year for feet, particularly toes. If you followed the fashion of the Northern Hemisphere summer, a predictor for what might be cool for New Zealand’s summer, you likely saw shoes that might typically be categorised as offensive to the eye. I’m talking about styles such as the ... <a title="Will New Zealand follow the ‘ugly shoe’ summer?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/will-new-zealand-follow-the-ugly-shoe-summer/" aria-label="Read more about Will New Zealand follow the ‘ugly shoe’ summer?">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The store opens at 11am, while the carpark was opened to shoppers at 8.30am. RNZ / Melanie Earley A handful of eager shoppers have begun to gather outside the new IKEA store at Mt Wellington in Auckland. Drivers are being warned to expect 40-minute queues today, with traffic analysts expecting crowds ... <a title="Queues build as shoppers line up for IKEA’s Auckland opening" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/queues-build-as-shoppers-line-up-for-ikeas-auckland-opening/" aria-label="Read more about Queues build as shoppers line up for IKEA’s Auckland opening">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Rutherford Street, between Melling Link and Connolly Street, is closed. X / NZ Transport Agency A person is dead after a fuel truck collided with a building on Lower Hutt’s Rutherford Street. At 9.15am Rutherford Street, between Melling Link and Connolly Street, was still closed after the single-vehicle crash about 5.30am ... <a title="Person killed, major Lower Hutt road closed for hours as fuel truck hits building" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/person-killed-major-lower-hutt-road-closed-for-hours-as-fuel-truck-hits-building/" aria-label="Read more about Person killed, major Lower Hutt road closed for hours as fuel truck hits building">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Climate Change Minister Simon Watts. RNZ / Nick Monro The government has rejected all of the Climate Change Commission’s recommendations to strengthen New Zealand’s emissions targets. The move comes despite the Commission warning the effects of climate change are hitting New Zealand sooner and more severely than expected, and that New ... <a title="Government rejects all of Climate Change Commission’s emissions target recommendations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/government-rejects-all-of-climate-change-commissions-emissions-target-recommendations/" aria-label="Read more about Government rejects all of Climate Change Commission’s emissions target recommendations">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand [embedded content] 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 ... <a title="‘A gift for the people’: Switch flicked for Franklin Road Christmas lights" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/a-gift-for-the-people-switch-flicked-for-franklin-road-christmas-lights/" aria-label="Read more about ‘A gift for the people’: Switch flicked for Franklin Road Christmas lights">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Rutherford Street, between Melling Link and Connolly Street, is closed. X / NZ Transport Agency A fuel truck has collided with a building on Lower Hutt’s Rutherford Street, seriously injuring one person, RNZ understands. Rutherford Street, between Melling Link and Connolly Street, is closed after the single-vehicle crash about 5.30am on ... <a title="Major Lower Hutt road closed for hours as fuel truck hits building" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/major-lower-hutt-road-closed-for-hours-as-fuel-truck-hits-building/" aria-label="Read more about Major Lower Hutt road closed for hours as fuel truck hits building">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand A tornado have flipped a caravan injuring one person at a motor camp at Lake Dudding in rural Manawatū. Supplied / Rangitikei District Council A man who was flipped twice in his caravan during a tornado that hit a rural Rangitīkei campground is going to be “traumatised for a little bit”. ... <a title="‘All hell broke loose’: Caretaker describes moment tornado hit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/all-hell-broke-loose-caretaker-describes-moment-tornado-hit/" aria-label="Read more about ‘All hell broke loose’: Caretaker describes moment tornado hit">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Applications for information about a partner’s history of violence have fallen by nearly 75 percent in the last five years. 123RF A UK criminologist is labelling New Zealand’s scheme to allow the disclosure of a partner’s history of violence as a missed opportunity to protect vulnerable people from family harm. Dr ... <a title="Police looking at improving scheme that allows disclosure of history of violence to partners" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/police-looking-at-improving-scheme-that-allows-disclosure-of-history-of-violence-to-partners/" aria-label="Read more about Police looking at improving scheme that allows disclosure of history of violence to partners">Read more</a>
