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November 21, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / Mark Papalii As the end of the year approaches, the government’s overhaul of the school system seems to have gone into overdrive and so has opposition to its changes. In the past month, every major national organisation representing teachers and principals has spoken out against some aspect of reforms ... <a title="Education overhaul: Everything that changed in 2025, and what’s in store for 2026" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/education-overhaul-everything-that-changed-in-2025-and-whats-in-store-for-2026/" aria-label="Read more about Education overhaul: Everything that changed in 2025, and what’s in store for 2026">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Fire crews worked until the early hours of this morning to extinguish a fire at Blenheim’s Resource Recovery Centre. Supplied / Marlborough District Council A Blenheim dump will be closed for some time after being badly damaged by fire. Six crews battled the blaze for hours at the Marlborough District Council’s ... <a title="Fire damage closes Blenheim dump" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/fire-damage-closes-blenheim-dump/" aria-label="Read more about Fire damage closes Blenheim dump">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The motorway is closed in both directions. NZTA Waka Kotahi A truck crash is blocking lanes in both directions on Auckland’s Northern Motorway near the Orewa offramp. Motorists are advised to expect delays following the state highway one crash, which occured around midday. One lane northbound and one lane southbound have ... <a title="Truck crash blocks lanes in both directions on Auckland motorway" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/truck-crash-blocks-lanes-in-both-directions-on-auckland-motorway/" aria-label="Read more about Truck crash blocks lanes in both directions on Auckland motorway">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Just after midday Christchurch was at 28.7C, the hottest place in Aotearoa. rafaelbenari/123RF While there was wet weather in parts of the country on Friday, forecasters say things should clear up for most at the weekend. But that does not necessarily mean it will be warm, despite summer’s approach. Just after ... <a title="Weather: Christchurch leads the way as summer arrives early" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/weather-christchurch-leads-the-way-as-summer-arrives-early/" aria-label="Read more about Weather: Christchurch leads the way as summer arrives early">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / REECE BAKER Two schools and a medical centre in the Bay of Plenty town of Katikati are in lockdown as police hunt for a person of interest in the town. Katikati College posted on its social media shortly before 1pm that it’s been asked by police to go into ... <a title="Katikati schools, medical centre in lockdown as police hunt for person of interest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/katikati-schools-medical-centre-in-lockdown-as-police-hunt-for-person-of-interest/" aria-label="Read more about Katikati schools, medical centre in lockdown as police hunt for person of interest">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Students leave flowers and paper cranes on Kevin Hu’s desk at Takapuna Grammar School in Auckland. Supplied The death of a beloved Auckland maths teacher has sent shock waves through the Chinese community. Students and parents paid tribute to Kevin Hu, head of calculus at Takapuna Grammar School, who died in ... <a title="Community mourns death of beloved Takapuna Grammar School teacher" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/community-mourns-death-of-beloved-takapuna-grammar-school-teacher/" aria-label="Read more about Community mourns death of beloved Takapuna Grammar School teacher">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Te Manahou Mackay says she started using puberty blockers at age 13-14 after “extensive” discussions with psychiatrists and therapists and nurse practitioners. Supplied A model who used puberty blockers as a teenager says the government is “cursing an entire generation of young transgender women to social stigma” after it halted new ... <a title="Halt to puberty blockers curses ‘young transgender women to stigma’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/halt-to-puberty-blockers-curses-young-transgender-women-to-stigma/" aria-label="Read more about Halt to puberty blockers curses ‘young transgender women to stigma’">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Nigel Hampton KC says he can’t say who the charges would be laid against, without breaching confidentiality. Iain McGregor/The Press The lawyer for Pike River families says police now have enough evidence to lay manslaughter charges over the disaster. Nigel Hampton KC said police believe they have evidence showing specific acts ... <a title="Pike River deaths: Enough evidence for manslaughter charges – lawyer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/pike-river-deaths-enough-evidence-for-manslaughter-charges-lawyer/" aria-label="Read more about Pike River deaths: Enough evidence for manslaughter charges – lawyer">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand This screen grab shows emergency crews battling a fire that broke out at a pavilion at the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belem, in Brazil, on November 20, 2025. AFP / AFPTV A New Zealand disability advocate caught up in the fire at the annual COP climate meeting in Brazil ... <a title="No support as Kiwi disabled delegates flee COP30 fire in Brazil" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/no-support-as-kiwi-disabled-delegates-flee-cop30-fire-in-brazil/" aria-label="Read more about No support as Kiwi disabled delegates flee COP30 fire in Brazil">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand David Seymour, Christopher Luxon and Winston Peters. RNZ Analysis: New Zealand politics has long acknowledged a truth of coalition life – sooner or later, everyone swallows a dead rat. Less examined is the art of spitting one back up. This term has already delivered its fair share of deceased squeakers. National ... <a title="Dead rats and discord: What next in the Peters-Seymour stoush?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/dead-rats-and-discord-what-next-in-the-peters-seymour-stoush/" aria-label="Read more about Dead rats and discord: What next in the Peters-Seymour stoush?">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Mayor Andrew Little says the council needs to establish why several of its projects have gone way over their budgets. RNZ / Mark Papalii Wellington’s mayor says a review of the Golden Mile project will give the council an opportunity to take another look at what the project was trying to ... <a title="Concern over ‘cost blowouts’ behind pause on Wellington’s Golden Mile project" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/concern-over-cost-blowouts-behind-pause-on-wellingtons-golden-mile-project/" aria-label="Read more about Concern over ‘cost blowouts’ behind pause on Wellington’s Golden Mile project">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Moeaia Tuai during his trial at the High Court at Auckland. RNZ / Gill Bonnett A jury has found Auckland man Moeaia Tuai guilty of slavery, and a string of sexual attacks on one of the slavery victims. The 63-year-old has been on trial for the past month on 20 charges, ... <a title="Auckland slavery case: Man found guilty of treating young people as property" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/auckland-slavery-case-man-found-guilty-of-treating-young-people-as-property/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland slavery case: Man found guilty of treating young people as property">Read more</a>
