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November 20, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Broken glass and other items can be seen in the gutter. RNZ / Marika Khabazi A person who saw a crash between two buses and a car in Auckland’s Glen Innes says he thought a bus was going to crash into nearby shops. Emergency services were at the scene of the ... <a title="Crash between two buses and a car causes ‘chaos’ in Auckland" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/20/crash-between-two-buses-and-a-car-causes-chaos-in-auckland/" aria-label="Read more about Crash between two buses and a car causes ‘chaos’ in Auckland">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Rēkohu-Wharekauri-Chatham Island waka excavation site Supplied/Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage Interim radiocarbon dating on a partially excavated waka in Chatham Islands has revealed the waka arrived on the islands in the mid 1400s. A previous report concluded the waka, unearthed by father and son Vincent and Nikau Dix, was ... <a title="Testing finds Chatham Islands’ waka Rēkohu from mid 1400s" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/20/testing-finds-chatham-islands-waka-rekohu-from-mid-1400s/" aria-label="Read more about Testing finds Chatham Islands’ waka Rēkohu from mid 1400s">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Education Minister Erica Stanford A government bill will stop schools opting out of international maths and reading tests and speed up intervention in failing schools. It will also give a new property agency the power to force schools to spend money on building works. The Education and Training (System Reform) Bill ... <a title="Government bill prevents schools from opting out of international maths, reading tests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/20/government-bill-prevents-schools-from-opting-out-of-international-maths-reading-tests/" aria-label="Read more about Government bill prevents schools from opting out of international maths, reading tests">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand An aerial appliance. FIRE AND EMERGENCY NZ / SUPPLIED Operators of the country’s largest fire trucks with the longest ladders are going to get a bigger say in a long overdue national strategy. “I have invited specialist aerial frontline firefighters to provide those insights and they are scheduled to start meeting ... <a title="Frontline firefighters to get say in what big fire trucks to buy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/20/frontline-firefighters-to-get-say-in-what-big-fire-trucks-to-buy/" aria-label="Read more about Frontline firefighters to get say in what big fire trucks to buy">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Ashik Ali was sentenced to three years in prison for manslaughter. Kim Baker Wilson / RNZ A truck driver whose dodgy and unregistered truck fatally ploughed into an Auckland roadworker has been jailed for three years. Ashik Ali was sentenced for manslaughter at the High Court in Auckland over the killing ... <a title="Auckland business owner jailed for three years after unregistered truck killed worker in Remuera" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/20/auckland-business-owner-jailed-for-three-years-after-unregistered-truck-killed-worker-in-remuera/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland business owner jailed for three years after unregistered truck killed worker in Remuera">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand This year’s World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference on Education (WIPCE) has arrived at what organisers describe as the “perfect time” – with thousands of delegates gathering in Tāmaki Makaurau as Indigenous rights face renewed pressure in Aotearoa and abroad. Held in partnership with mana whenua, Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, the week-long hui brings ... <a title="World’s largest indigenous education conference comes at ‘perfect time’, organisers say" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/20/worlds-largest-indigenous-education-conference-comes-at-perfect-time-organisers-say/" aria-label="Read more about World’s largest indigenous education conference comes at ‘perfect time’, organisers say">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ earlier revealed about 120 staff were under investigation throughout the country after 30,000 alcohol breath tests were “falsely or erroneously recorded”. RNZ A “small number” of police officers who either falsely or erroneously recorded alcohol breath tests have been stood down for additional misconduct – but police won’t say what ... <a title="Breath test investigation: ‘Small number’ of police officers stood down for additional misconduct" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/20/breath-test-investigation-small-number-of-police-officers-stood-down-for-additional-misconduct/" aria-label="Read more about Breath test investigation: ‘Small number’ of police officers stood down for additional misconduct">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Traffic on Dominion Rd in Mt Eden being diverted by police after a serious car crash. Calvin Samuel / RNZ Part of a busy road in Auckland’s Mt Eden is closed following a serious crash. Police said traffic was being divereted on Dominion Rd following a single-car crash at 10.18am. The ... <a title="Serious crash closes busy road in Auckland’s Mt Eden" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/20/serious-crash-closes-busy-road-in-aucklands-mt-eden/" aria-label="Read more about Serious crash closes busy road in Auckland’s Mt Eden">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2025
While Indonesians worry about President Prabowo Subianto’s undemocratic moves, the failures of his flagship “breakfast” policy, and a faltering economy, Australia enters into another “treaty” of little import. Duncan Graham reports. COMMENTARY: By Duncan Graham Under-reported in the Australian and New Zealand media, Indonesia has been gripped by protests this year, some of them violent. ... <a title="Canberra pandering to Prabowo, while ignoring unrest in West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/20/canberra-pandering-to-prabowo-while-ignoring-unrest-in-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Canberra pandering to Prabowo, while ignoring unrest in West Papua">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Back in the early days of home video, one of the first beneficiaries was a documentary – or “rockumentary”, if you will – called This is Spinal Tap. It did very little business at all until it came out on video This fake coverage of a fake rock band created its ... <a title="Spinal Tap II: Reboot of 80s cult classic falls short" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/20/spinal-tap-ii-reboot-of-80s-cult-classic-falls-short/" aria-label="Read more about Spinal Tap II: Reboot of 80s cult classic falls short">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Emergency services at the scene. Supplied A Waikanae resident has described hearing raised voices and what sounded like gunshots before a man died in Waikanae on Wednesday. Emergency services were called to a property on Kakariki Grove just before 3.30pm on Wednesday. Police confirmed a homicide investigation was underway after a ... <a title="Homicide investigation launched, resident describes hearing gunshots in neighbourhood on Kāpiti Coast" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/20/homicide-investigation-launched-resident-describes-hearing-gunshots-in-neighbourhood-on-kapiti-coast/" aria-label="Read more about Homicide investigation launched, resident describes hearing gunshots in neighbourhood on Kāpiti Coast">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The Authority conducted an independent investigation into the matter and found the officer demonstrated poor judgement and decision making, but did not act dishonestly. RNZ / Richard Tindiller Police say they accept the Independent Police Conduct Authority’s (IPCA) findings after an off-duty officer used the police database to access a driver’s ... <a title="Off-duty police officer uses database to contact driver" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/20/off-duty-police-officer-uses-database-to-contact-driver/" aria-label="Read more about Off-duty police officer uses database to contact driver">Read more</a>
