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November 17, 2025
RNZ Pacific Samoan Prime Minister La’aulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt has returned home after an eight-week absence for medical treatment in New Zealand. La’aulialemalietoa departed Apia for Auckland on a private jet just days after being sworn in as Samoa’s eighth prime minister on September 16. The Samoan government had previously said he was expected to return ... <a title="Samoan PM back home as journalist alleges assault outside his residence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/samoan-pm-back-home-as-journalist-alleges-assault-outside-his-residence/" aria-label="Read more about Samoan PM back home as journalist alleges assault outside his residence">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The Coastguard had also aided in the search. NZ Coastguard The Navy has joined the search for a missing fisherman in Northland. A boat with two people on board at Pataua South was reported overdue on Friday night and found adrift the next morning with nobody on it. The body of ... <a title="Navy joins search for missing fisherman in Northland" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/navy-joins-search-for-missing-fisherman-in-northland/" aria-label="Read more about Navy joins search for missing fisherman in Northland">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Dame Farah Palmer will replace Dr. Deb Robinson on the World Rugby Council. Photosport New Zealand rugby icon Dame Farah Palmer has been appointed to the World Rugby Council as the country’s third representative. A former Black Ferns captain and three-time Rugby World Cup champion, Dame Farah has extensive governance and ... <a title="Kiwi Dame Farah Palmer replaces doctor on World Rugby Council" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/kiwi-dame-farah-palmer-replaces-doctor-on-world-rugby-council/" aria-label="Read more about Kiwi Dame Farah Palmer replaces doctor on World Rugby Council">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Takapuna Beach on Auckland’s North Shore. A man has died at a popular Auckland beach. Police were alerted at midday on Monday that a person was unresponsive in the water and had been pulled onto Takapuna Beach. Officers gave medical help but he could not be revived. The death will be ... <a title="Man dies after being pulled unresponsive from water at Takapuna Beach" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/man-dies-after-being-pulled-unresponsive-from-water-at-takapuna-beach/" aria-label="Read more about Man dies after being pulled unresponsive from water at Takapuna Beach">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Mt Eden Corrections Facility (file image). RNZ/Calvin Samuel A man on the run for more than a week has been found and charged with escaping custody. The 42-year-old Mt Eden remand prisoner, who was in handcuffs, got free during a hospital escort on 7 November. He has now been arrested and ... <a title="Remand prisoner found after more than a week on the run" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/remand-prisoner-found-after-more-than-a-week-on-the-run/" aria-label="Read more about Remand prisoner found after more than a week on the run">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Damage to Orewa’s Shoreward Gastrobar in September. Supplied Four businesses have been ram-raided or fire-damaged in a small seaside village north of Auckland in the past three months, but police say so far no arrests have been made. Officers launched Operation Governor after a deliberately lit fire at Orewa’s Sunflour Cafe ... <a title="No arrests after businesses damaged in seaside village of Orewa" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/no-arrests-after-businesses-damaged-in-seaside-village-of-orewa/" aria-label="Read more about No arrests after businesses damaged in seaside village of Orewa">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Rajinder is on trial at the High Court at Dunedin. RNZ / Nate McKinnon A man is accused of stabbing a former employee more than 40 times in what appears to be an attempted decapitation, a court has heard. The 35-year-old man accused of the murder, who is listed in court ... <a title="‘Attempted decapitation’: Man on trial for murder of former employee" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/attempted-decapitation-man-on-trial-for-murder-of-former-employee/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Attempted decapitation’: Man on trial for murder of former employee">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand August, Hugo, and Goldie died in a house fire in Sanson on Saturday. GIVEALITTLE / SUPPLIED Warning: This story discusses suicide. The deaths of the three children and their father after a fire are being investigated as a murder suicide, RNZ understands. The three children killed in a Sanson house fire ... <a title="Death of three children and father after Sanson fire being treated as murder-suicide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/death-of-three-children-and-father-after-sanson-fire-being-treated-as-murder-suicide/" aria-label="Read more about Death of three children and father after Sanson fire being treated as murder-suicide">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Pacific Media University of the South Pacific’s Associate Professor Shailendra Singh, who edited the inaugural edition of Pacific Media journal along with co-editor Dr Amit Sarwal, has responded to the publication with a Q and A. The new journal has replaced the Pacific Journalism Review, which was founded by Professor David Robie at the University ... <a title="Pacific Media: A renewed commitment to research on Pacific media, development and democracy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/pacific-media-a-renewed-commitment-to-research-on-pacific-media-development-and-democracy/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific Media: A renewed commitment to research on Pacific media, development and democracy">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Police are trying to locate the man and woman involved in the alleged assault. RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly A man has suffered a fractured eye socket and broken nose after being assaulted in Southland at the weekend. Police said the man was lured from his Edendale home late on Saturday. “At ... <a title="Man suffers fractured eye socket, broken nose after offering help to woman" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/man-suffers-fractured-eye-socket-broken-nose-after-offering-help-to-woman/" aria-label="Read more about Man suffers fractured eye socket, broken nose after offering help to woman">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Dr Gary Payinda. Supplied A high-profile emergency doctor has been selected to stand for the Labour Party against the incumbent Whāngarei MP, former Health Minister Dr Shane Reti. Dr Gary Payinda said he felt compelled to do something about what he saw as the government’s ongoing attack on essential public services. ... <a title="Labour selects Dr Gary Payinda to take on former Health Minister Dr Shane Reti" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/labour-selects-dr-gary-payinda-to-take-on-former-health-minister-dr-shane-reti/" aria-label="Read more about Labour selects Dr Gary Payinda to take on former Health Minister Dr Shane Reti">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand One of the affected play sand brands. Supplied / Product Safety NZ Early Childhood centres are concerned about the cost to remove and dispose of potentially asbestos contaminated products after asbestos was found in a range of coloured play sand. Some schools and childhood centres have closed after a significant recall ... <a title="Schools close as more types of play sand test positive for asbestos" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/schools-close-as-more-types-of-play-sand-test-positive-for-asbestos/" aria-label="Read more about Schools close as more types of play sand test positive for asbestos">Read more</a>
