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November 28, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand A scrub fire in Palmerston. Supplied / Martin Neame Seven fire crews and heavy machinery will be heading to a vegetation fire near the Otago town of Palmerston that burnt through the night. The fire started at around 2.30pm on Thursday and was fought by ground crews and four helicopters. A ... <a title="Firefighters battle fires in Otago, Southland overnight" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/28/firefighters-battle-fires-in-otago-southland-overnight/" aria-label="Read more about Firefighters battle fires in Otago, Southland overnight">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand New Zealand F1 driver Liam Lawson. MPS AGENCY / PHOTOSPORT The clock is ticking for Liam Lawson to show he has what it takes to stay in Formula 1. Red Bull boss Laurent Mekies said a decision on the driver line-ups for 2026 will be made next week. There are two ... <a title="F1: Liam Lawson still waiting as team-mate has seat confirmed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/28/f1-liam-lawson-still-waiting-as-team-mate-has-seat-confirmed/" aria-label="Read more about F1: Liam Lawson still waiting as team-mate has seat confirmed">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Unsplash / RNZ Painfully slow recruitment processes within public hospitals are masking the true scale of the dire workforce shortages in the health system, frontline workers warn. PSA national secretary Fleur Fitzsimons. RNZ / Samuel Rillstone Health NZ data, obtained by the PSA under the Official Information Act, showed it was ... <a title="‘Hidden’ workforce shortages in hospitals add to frontline pressures" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/28/hidden-workforce-shortages-in-hospitals-add-to-frontline-pressures/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Hidden’ workforce shortages in hospitals add to frontline pressures">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Karel Šroubek does not want to be deported back to the Czech Republic. (File photo) Carmen Bird Photography Šroubek, also known as Jan Antolik, is still in New Zealand seven years after then Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway ordered his deportation He used a false passport, smuggled in drugs and has been ... <a title="Why convicted drug smuggler Karel Šroubek still hasn’t been deported" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/28/why-convicted-drug-smuggler-karel-sroubek-still-hasnt-been-deported/" aria-label="Read more about Why convicted drug smuggler Karel Šroubek still hasn’t been deported">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand About 100 critically-endangered Mahoenui giant weta have been released into the Rotokare Sanctuary in Taranaki this week as part of efforts to preserve the taonga species. Supplied / Adrian Cleary About 100 critically endangered Mahoenui giant wētā have been released into the Rotokare Sanctuary in Taranaki this week as part of ... <a title="100 critically endangered Mahoenui giant wētā released into Taranaki’s Rotokare Sanctuary" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/28/100-critically-endangered-mahoenui-giant-weta-released-into-taranakis-rotokare-sanctuary/" aria-label="Read more about 100 critically endangered Mahoenui giant wētā released into Taranaki’s Rotokare Sanctuary">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand A team of volunteers have been working together to build the float, here are some of them. L-R: Adam Poloha, Ben Mai, Daphne Benitez, David Scott, Ben Bell, Tim Brian, Whiti Rameka Ke-Xin Li Since 1933, Auckland’s Santa Parade on Queen Street has been a destination for festive crowds with its ... <a title="New nativity float for Auckland Santa Parade" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/28/new-nativity-float-for-auckland-santa-parade/" aria-label="Read more about New nativity float for Auckland Santa Parade">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand It started as a tiny seed of an idea, but has grown into a flourishing vegetable garden in an unlikely spot – a concrete company car park in Kerikeri. Now that car park is feeding a bunch of families in need, thanks to the work a local tradie who had to ... <a title="A Kerikeri tradie turned a car park into an abundant veggie plot" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/28/a-kerikeri-tradie-turned-a-car-park-into-an-abundant-veggie-plot/" aria-label="Read more about A Kerikeri tradie turned a car park into an abundant veggie plot">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Labour leader Chris Hipkins. (File photo) RNZ / Mark Papalii Labour leader Chris Hipkins says he’s confident his party has changed enough since the 2023 election to win next year’s contest. Speaking to RNZ before Labour’s annual general meeting in Auckland on Friday night, Hipkins said the party was shifting from ... <a title="Labour gathers for AGM as it shifts into campaign mode" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/28/labour-gathers-for-agm-as-it-shifts-into-campaign-mode/" aria-label="Read more about Labour gathers for AGM as it shifts into campaign mode">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Parliament’s Justice Committee has recommended the Electoral Amendment Bill be passed by majority, but suggested some amendments. RNZ / Nate McKinnon Parliament’s Justice Committee has released its report into the Electoral Amendment Bill. The select committee recommended the bill be passed by majority, but suggested some amendments. The bill would prevent ... <a title="Justice Committee recommends passing Electoral Amendment Bill with some amendments" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/28/justice-committee-recommends-passing-electoral-amendment-bill-with-some-amendments/" aria-label="Read more about Justice Committee recommends passing Electoral Amendment Bill with some amendments">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The latest coloured sand products to be recalled over asbestos fears. Supplied The lack of a full and proper tally of how many schools are testing positive for asbestos from coloured play sand has stunned principals and a teachers union. Initially, RNZ was told by the Ministry of Education that no ... <a title="Principals stunned no tally kept of schools testing positive for asbestos from coloured play sand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/28/principals-stunned-no-tally-kept-of-schools-testing-positive-for-asbestos-from-coloured-play-sand/" aria-label="Read more about Principals stunned no tally kept of schools testing positive for asbestos from coloured play sand">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand “It’s dead Christmas,” Carl Yates says. Around him, a graveyard of sleeping elves, reindeer and toy soldiers lay still. ‘twas eerily quiet at Shands Road when RNZ visited. Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Tangles of wires wound their way between model carnival rides, above them rows of ... <a title="An acre full of colourful Christmas lights, extravagant animations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/28/an-acre-full-of-colourful-christmas-lights-extravagant-animations/" aria-label="Read more about An acre full of colourful Christmas lights, extravagant animations">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand “If you match a tobacco cigarette in a joint in terms of the same size and smoked in the same way, cannabis results in five times higher levels of carbon monoxide” – physician and academic Richard Beasley. Elsa Olofsson New Zealand was once a world leader in getting people to give ... <a title="Smokefree choking" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/28/smokefree-choking/" aria-label="Read more about Smokefree choking">Read more</a>
