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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Black Cap Daryl Mitchell takes a catch. Andrew Cornaga / www.photosport.nz / Photosport Ltd 2025 Black Caps batter Daryl Mitchell will miss the rest of the ODI series against West Indies because of injury. Mitchell experienced discomfort in his thigh while scoring his seventh ODI century in Sunday’s seven-run win over ... <a title="Cricket: Daryl Mitchell to miss rest of West Indies series" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/cricket-daryl-mitchell-to-miss-rest-of-west-indies-series/" aria-label="Read more about Cricket: Daryl Mitchell to miss rest of West Indies series">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Anti-family violence white ribbon day is 25 November. 123RF WARNING: This story includes content that may be disturbing to some readers. One Rotorua women’s refuge says it has been shocked at the increase in those needing to escape abusive homes over the past 18 months. But the rise in those affected ... <a title="Refuge organisations shocked at increase in women needing to escape abuse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/refuge-organisations-shocked-at-increase-in-women-needing-to-escape-abuse/" aria-label="Read more about Refuge organisations shocked at increase in women needing to escape abuse">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Educational Colours Rainbow Sand has been recalled. Supplied / Product Safety NZ The deputy prime minister says several hundred schools and childhood centres have contacted the Ministry of Education after the discovery of asbestos in a range of coloured play sand. Rainbow sand from Educational Colours and coloured sand from Creatistics ... <a title="Education Ministry gets hundreds of calls, emails over play sand contamination – Seymour" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/education-ministry-gets-hundreds-of-calls-emails-over-play-sand-contamination-seymour/" aria-label="Read more about Education Ministry gets hundreds of calls, emails over play sand contamination – Seymour">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The children have been named in the Givealittle campaign for their mother as August, Hugo and Goldie. GIVEALITTLE / SUPPLIED Police have been keeping guard overnight at the scene of a house fire in Manawatū on Saturday, where three children and their father died. The deaths at Sanson are being treated ... <a title="‘The hardest journey possible’: $250,000 raised for mother of children killed in Sanson fire" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/the-hardest-journey-possible-250000-raised-for-mother-of-children-killed-in-sanson-fire/" aria-label="Read more about ‘The hardest journey possible’: $250,000 raised for mother of children killed in Sanson fire">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Less than 50 percent of trainees are completing apprenticeships. RNZ / Dom Thomas Vocational Education Minister Penny Simmonds says she is seeking extra funding so new industry bodies can investigate low apprenticeship completion rates. Speaking at the Vocational Education and Training Research Forum in Wellington, Simmonds said she was concerned that ... <a title="Penny Simmonds concerned less than 50 percent of trainees completing apprenticeships" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/penny-simmonds-concerned-less-than-50-percent-of-trainees-completing-apprenticeships/" aria-label="Read more about Penny Simmonds concerned less than 50 percent of trainees completing apprenticeships">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Anthony Joshua after his fight against Oleksander Usyk in 2021. Mark Robinson / PHOTOSPORT Former world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua will take on YouTube star Jake Paul in a bout next month. Joshua and Paul will meet in Miami on 19 December, with the fight to be broadcast on Netflix. ... <a title="Boxing: Anthony Joshua to fight Jake Paul next month" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/boxing-anthony-joshua-to-fight-jake-paul-next-month/" aria-label="Read more about Boxing: Anthony Joshua to fight Jake Paul next month">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Labour leader Chris Hipkins. RNZ / Mark Papalii Labour has been gaining ground in opinion polls, leading on issues from the economy and healthcare, but a new survey suggests voters are split on its capital gains tax proposals. Leader Chris Hipkins announced last month the party would campaign on the tax ... <a title="Morning Report : Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins on capital gains tax" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/morning-report-labour-party-leader-chris-hipkins-on-capital-gains-tax/" aria-label="Read more about Morning Report : Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins on capital gains tax">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Statistics Minister Shane Reti has called the national system “dated and constrained”. RNZ / Samuel Rillstone A unique trove of information for measuring the impact of government services on millions of New Zealanders is sitting on “old and increasingly unstable” technology. It is hard to use and badly in need of ... <a title="Stats NZ: Grinding gears in data’s ‘big machine’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/stats-nz-grinding-gears-in-datas-big-machine/" aria-label="Read more about Stats NZ: Grinding gears in data’s ‘big machine’">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Labour leader Chris Hipkins. RNZ / Mark Papalii Labour has been gaining ground in opinion polls, leading on issues from the economy and healthcare, but a new survey suggests voters are split on its capital gains tax proposals. Leader Chris Hipkins announced last month the party would campaign on the tax ... <a title="Morning Report live: Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins on capital gains tax" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/morning-report-live-labour-party-leader-chris-hipkins-on-capital-gains-tax/" aria-label="Read more about Morning Report live: Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins on capital gains tax">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Pixabay/shafin_protic An advocacy organisation says it receives calls from people covertly asking for help to avoid offending – but despite evidence that programmes work, resources to help are thin. When The Detail ran a podcast episode about how Customs tries to stop child sexual exploitation material at our borders, our listeners ... <a title="‘No minimum sentence’: Do child sexual exploitation prison terms reflect the severity of the crime?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/no-minimum-sentence-do-child-sexual-exploitation-prison-terms-reflect-the-severity-of-the-crime/" aria-label="Read more about ‘No minimum sentence’: Do child sexual exploitation prison terms reflect the severity of the crime?">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand My favourite number has always been three. In my mind, three is a waltz moving in circles, graceful and hypnotic. It plays brightly in a major key, hauntingly beautiful in minor. It’s a deep midnight blue fading into royal purple, like an acrylic painting of the setting sun. In a numerical ... <a title="Everything feels better in sets of three. Three’s also my prison." class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/everything-feels-better-in-sets-of-three-threes-also-my-prison/" aria-label="Read more about Everything feels better in sets of three. Three’s also my prison.">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Naomi Osaka at the US Open tennis tournament on 28 August. AFP / Timothy A Clary Former world women’s tennis number one Naomi Osaka has withdrawn from this summer’s ASB Classic in Auckland. Osaka cited a change of schedule for her withdrawal. The Japanese player reached the final of the 2025 ... <a title="Osaka pulls out of ASB Classic, Svitolina and Navarro signed up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/osaka-pulls-out-of-asb-classic-svitolina-and-navarro-signed-up/" aria-label="Read more about Osaka pulls out of ASB Classic, Svitolina and Navarro signed up">Read more</a>
