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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Rescued Kitchen products. The Pantry / Rescued Kitchen / Instagram University of Auckland students and a food upcycling company have turned old loaves of bread back into flour and then back into homestyle baking. While the flour is a product of Rescued Kitchen, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering senior lecturer ... <a title="Is it possible to turn bread back into usable flour?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/is-it-possible-to-turn-bread-back-into-usable-flour/" aria-label="Read more about Is it possible to turn bread back into usable flour?">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Jomon Perumayan Joseph was caught with a stun gun on the dashboard of his Uber vehicle. NZME A Supreme Court decision to reject Uber’s appeal against an Employment Court decision that found four of its drivers were employees, not contractors, may raise tricky tax questions, one tax expert says. Deloitte tax ... <a title="What will the Uber decision mean for drivers’ tax bills?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/what-will-the-uber-decision-mean-for-drivers-tax-bills/" aria-label="Read more about What will the Uber decision mean for drivers’ tax bills?">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand A petition containing 90,000 signatures is presented to Parliament. RNZ / Giles Dexter A petition calling for the government to urgently fix the health system – which organisers estimate is New Zealand’s longest petition ever – has been delivered to Parliament. Unfurled across Parliament’s lawn, the petition stretched down the steps, ... <a title="200kg of signatures: Huge petition to fix ‘broken’ health system presented to Parliament" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/200kg-of-signatures-huge-petition-to-fix-broken-health-system-presented-to-parliament/" aria-label="Read more about 200kg of signatures: Huge petition to fix ‘broken’ health system presented to Parliament">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand An ordinary annual insect survey has uncovered an extraordinary grasshopper. Department of Conservation ranger Jen Schori said she could not believe her eyes, as colleagues called her over to see a deep pink grasshopper near Lake Takapō. Schori was taking part in the annual grasshopper survey in the Mackenzie Basin, when ... <a title="Rare pink grasshopper discovered during annual Mackenzie Basin survey" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/rare-pink-grasshopper-discovered-during-annual-mackenzie-basin-survey/" aria-label="Read more about Rare pink grasshopper discovered during annual Mackenzie Basin survey">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Dunedin High Court. RNZ / Nate McKinnon Slain Dunedin man Gurjit Singh planned to install security cameras, after discovering his garage door was open weeks before his death, a friend says. Singh was found dead on the lawn of his home in January last year, stabbed more than 40 times. A ... <a title="Murdered Dunedin man planned to install security cameras before death" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/murdered-dunedin-man-planned-to-install-security-cameras-before-death/" aria-label="Read more about Murdered Dunedin man planned to install security cameras before death">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Moeaia Tuai’ is on trial in the High Court at Auckland. Gill Bonnett A carpenter says he never saw an alleged slavery victim work at three lodges or a campground. Suli Tuilolo has been giving evidence at Moeaia Tuai’s trial at the High Court at Auckland. Tuai, 63, has pleaded not ... <a title="Slavery trial: Defendant’s diary of beatings read to jury" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/slavery-trial-defendants-diary-of-beatings-read-to-jury/" aria-label="Read more about Slavery trial: Defendant’s diary of beatings read to jury">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Kmart has withdrawn all its sand-based products. (File photo) Supplied / MBIE A parent fielding concerns from others after testing found asbestos in a range of coloured play sand says they feel like nobody is giving them clear advice on what to do with sand in their homes. Several schools and ... <a title="Parents confused by what to do with potentially contaminated play sand in their homes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/parents-confused-by-what-to-do-with-potentially-contaminated-play-sand-in-their-homes/" aria-label="Read more about Parents confused by what to do with potentially contaminated play sand in their homes">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Chris Bishop. Supplied Senior minister Chris Bishop is rejecting criticism over a funding decision shifting Kāinga Ora money to a walking and cycling bridge in his electorate that he campaigned on, which the government cancelled. Bishop – the minister for housing and transport, and Hutt South MP – agreed in March ... <a title="PM backs minister’s ‘pragmatic’ call to spend Kāinga Ora money on local bridge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/pm-backs-ministers-pragmatic-call-to-spend-kainga-ora-money-on-local-bridge/" aria-label="Read more about PM backs minister’s ‘pragmatic’ call to spend Kāinga Ora money on local bridge">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Family members raised the alarm on Friday night when the pair failed to return to Pataua South, near Whangārei. NZ Coastguard Police are scaling back the search for a man missing off the Northland coast four days after a fishing trip came to a tragic end. Northland police search and rescue ... <a title="Search for missing boatie scaled back" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/search-for-missing-boatie-scaled-back/" aria-label="Read more about Search for missing boatie scaled back">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Wellington Hospital. RNZ / REECE BAKER Wellington Hospital will have a new $16 million operating theatre by early 2028. Health Minister Simeon Brown said Health New Zealand had approved the funding for what’s known as a hybrid theatre. It allows for both traditional surgery and the use of imaging technology – ... <a title="Wellington Hospital to get new ‘hybrid’ operating theatre" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/wellington-hospital-to-get-new-hybrid-operating-theatre/" aria-label="Read more about Wellington Hospital to get new ‘hybrid’ operating theatre">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The man was facing a court martial hearing on two counts of strangulation but the prosecution has amended the charges to male assaults female. RNZ / Jonathan Mitchell The prosecution has downgraded charges against a soldier accused of strangling his former partner. The Army corporal, who has interim name suppression, was ... <a title="Prosecution downgrades charges against soldier accused of strangling former partner" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/prosecution-downgrades-charges-against-soldier-accused-of-strangling-former-partner/" aria-label="Read more about Prosecution downgrades charges against soldier accused of strangling former partner">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand New Zealand F1 driver IAN BUNDEY / MPS AGENCY © / PHOTOSPORT Racing Bulls boss Alan Permane says it is likely a decision on their 2026 driver line-up won’t be made until this season ends. In September, Red Bull indicated that a decision on the line-up for both teams for next ... <a title="Decision on Liam Lawson’s F1 future delayed even further" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/decision-on-liam-lawsons-f1-future-delayed-even-further/" aria-label="Read more about Decision on Liam Lawson’s F1 future delayed even further">Read more</a>
