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December 3, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Ashvin Illangeshwaran says exchanging letters helped him learn a new culture. Ashvin Illangeshwaran Today, the average New Zealand Post letter drop off point gets less than two letters per week. But in a world where technology means we are only one tap away from seeing friends and families, some young people ... <a title="Young people keeping the art of letter writing alive" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/03/young-people-keeping-the-art-of-letter-writing-alive/" aria-label="Read more about Young people keeping the art of letter writing alive">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The New Zealand Women’s R4 Rafting team from Rangitikei has made it to Malaysia to compete in the International Rafting Federation World Championships. Supplied Five rafting wahine have paddled their way to the top after shovelling poo to get there. The New Zealand Women’s R4 Rafting team from Rangitikei has made ... <a title="New Zealand Women’s Rafting team head to Malaysia to compete" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/03/new-zealand-womens-rafting-team-head-to-malaysia-to-compete/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand Women’s Rafting team head to Malaysia to compete">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Michael Bracewell Andrew Cornaga / www.photosport.nz / Photosport Ltd 2025 The Black Caps have taken firm control of the first cricket test against the West Indies in Christchurch. A five wicket haul for Jacob Duffy saw the Windies dismissed for just 167, handing New Zealand a first innings lead of 64. ... <a title="Black Caps v West Indies first test: Day two" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/03/black-caps-v-west-indies-first-test-day-two/" aria-label="Read more about Black Caps v West Indies first test: Day two">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Explainer – Whether it’s a Metallica concert, the Santa Parade or, yes, even the much-hyped opening of IKEA, Auckland Transport Operation Centre is tasked with trying to keep people moving. It looks a little bit like NASA’s Mission Control, with dozens of monitors and computer screens all humming away with eyes ... <a title="Metallica, Santa and IKEA – How Auckland Transport Operation Centre controls the city’s traffic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/03/metallica-santa-and-ikea-how-auckland-transport-operation-centre-controls-the-citys-traffic/" aria-label="Read more about Metallica, Santa and IKEA – How Auckland Transport Operation Centre controls the city’s traffic">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Mariameno Kapa-Kingi. VNP / Phil Smith Ousted Te Pāti Māori MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi is taking the party’s president John Tamihere to court. Kapa-Kingi was expelled from the party, alongside Tākuta Ferris, in early November after a period of internal conflict. Iwi leaders had been hopeful the party’s two factions could patch ... <a title="Ousted Te Pāti Māori MP taking president to court" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/03/ousted-te-pati-maori-mp-taking-president-to-court/" aria-label="Read more about Ousted Te Pāti Māori MP taking president to court">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Associate Health Minister Casey Costello. RNZ / Samuel Rillstone Associate Health Minister Casey Costello has been back in the firing line on Wednesday over big tobacco’s influence, with a health select committee erupting into heated debate on government plans to roll out oral tobacco and nicotine products. Last year, Cabinet agreed ... <a title="Health select committee erupts into heated debate over roll out of oral tobacco and nicotine products" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/03/health-select-committee-erupts-into-heated-debate-over-roll-out-of-oral-tobacco-and-nicotine-products/" aria-label="Read more about Health select committee erupts into heated debate over roll out of oral tobacco and nicotine products">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Seven Sharp’s hosts promoting the ‘Swede As’ campaign for the launch of Ikea. TVNZ Seven Sharp Many shoppers are bracing themselves for chaos as IKEA prepares to open the doors of its Auckland store, the first in the country. Up to 20,000 shoppers are predicted to visit on the first day, ... <a title="What you need to know ahead of NZ’s first IKEA opening" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/03/what-you-need-to-know-ahead-of-nzs-first-ikea-opening/" aria-label="Read more about What you need to know ahead of NZ’s first IKEA opening">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Some of the latest coloured sand products to be recalled over asbestos fears. (File photo) Supplied It could cost one kindergarten operator hundreds of thousands of dollars to decontaminate its sites that tested positive for asbestos from coloured play sand, it says. Whanau Manaaki got tests on 13 kindergartens where the ... <a title="Kindergarten staff’ ‘angry, aggrieved’ at play sand asbestos clean up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/03/kindergarten-staff-angry-aggrieved-at-play-sand-asbestos-clean-up/" aria-label="Read more about Kindergarten staff’ ‘angry, aggrieved’ at play sand asbestos clean up">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Tony’s house bus was struck by lightning. Supplied A man says he is the “luckiest unlucky person on the planet” after his house-bus was hit by lightning during a storm. Emergency services have rushed to a motor camp in Dudding Lake, in rural Rangitīkei after reports a tornado went through and ... <a title="Person injured as tornado reportedly flips caravan at Rangitīkei motor camp" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/03/person-injured-as-tornado-reportedly-flips-caravan-at-rangitikei-motor-camp/" aria-label="Read more about Person injured as tornado reportedly flips caravan at Rangitīkei motor camp">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The rotten food served to students at Haeata Community Campus. Supplied / Haeata Community Campus The food safety authority is doubling down on its assessment that rotten lunches were given to students at a Christchurch school because of “human error” by the school’s staff. The principal of Haeata Community Campus, Peggy ... <a title="Food safety authority doubles down on mouldy lunches being school’s fault" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/03/food-safety-authority-doubles-down-on-mouldy-lunches-being-schools-fault/" aria-label="Read more about Food safety authority doubles down on mouldy lunches being school’s fault">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Top Energy workers at a Kaikohe substation on the evening of a major power cut. RNZ / Peter de Graaf Far North lines company Top Energy says repairs to a substation that failed spectacularly almost a month ago have now been completed. At about 5.20pm on 6 November, Kaikohe residents reported ... <a title="Far North substation repaired after major power outage" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/03/far-north-substation-repaired-after-major-power-outage/" aria-label="Read more about Far North substation repaired after major power outage">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Severe thunderstorm warnings are in place for the Auckland region with MetService saying they could lead to very heavy downpours. MetService is forecasting downpours across the North Island on Wednesday, with possible thunderstorms in some places, and a number of watches and warnings in place. A heavy rain warning is in ... <a title="Intense rain, blustery wind and thunderstorms hit the North Island" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/03/intense-rain-blustery-wind-and-thunderstorms-hit-the-north-island/" aria-label="Read more about Intense rain, blustery wind and thunderstorms hit the North Island">Read more</a>
