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Source: Radio New Zealand Auckland FC fans, aka The Port. Andrew Cornaga / www.photosport.nz Auckland FC will host the A-League grand final in New Zealand for the first time on Saturday and the club says tickets are “selling like hotcakes”. Just after 4pm on Monday, the first day that tickets went on sale, chief executive…
Source: Radio New Zealand A pipe pumped out wastewater into Porirua Harbour for three hours. Supplied / Wellington Water A burst pipe pumped out wastewater into Porirua Harbour for three hours on Tuesday morning, Wellington Water confirmed. Crews were sent out to the pipe on Titahi Bay Road, where the discharge into the stormwater network…
Source: Radio New Zealand Finance minister Nicola Willis. RNZ / Mark Papalii The finance minister is set to reveal proposals to reduce the number of government agencies, by telling ministries and departments to come up with plans for amalgamation. RNZ understands Nicola Willis will set out three proposals on Tuesday afternoon to create efficiencies in…
Source: Radio New Zealand Pene Pati was “totally blown away” when he found out he was getting the French Arts Knighthood. Speaking from Zurich, the Samoan-born opera star told Checkpoint it was an emotional moment, especially “coming from somewhere that doesn’t speak French”, let alone do as much opera. Another high note for Samoan kiwi…
Source: Radio New Zealand The government pledged to spend $131 million on improving students’ reading, writing and maths in this year’s budget. Unsplash/ Taylor Flowe A school principal has said the government’s planned investment into education will help teachers and deliver a more consistent quality of learning across the country. The government pledged on Tuesday…
Source: Radio New Zealand The family of murdered police office Lyn Fleming say the way she died was was “nothing short of barbaric”. Senior Sergeant Fleming and Senior Sergeant Adam Ramsay were on foot patrol in Buxton Square in the early hours of New Year’s Day last year when they were hit by a car…
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa M. Given, Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University Tech giant Meta recently announced a set of new features to give parents greater oversight of how their children use Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Horizon. This follows the company’s announcement earlier ... <a title="Meta’s new tools allow parents to better supervise their kids’ social media accounts. Will they work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/18/metas-new-tools-allow-parents-to-better-supervise-their-kids-social-media-accounts-will-they-work-283073/" aria-label="Read more about Meta’s new tools allow parents to better supervise their kids’ social media accounts. Will they work?">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ehsan Noroozinejad, Senior Researcher and Sustainable Future Lead, Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University There is a large group in Australia’s housing crisis that often gets less attention. They are not homeless. They are not homeowners. They are renters in the middle. They may be working ... <a title="Not homeless, not homeowners: what does the budget mean for Australia’s squeezed renters?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/18/not-homeless-not-homeowners-what-does-the-budget-mean-for-australias-squeezed-renters-283093/" aria-label="Read more about Not homeless, not homeowners: what does the budget mean for Australia’s squeezed renters?">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne In three credible post-budget polls, One Nation is up one to three points, with their victory at the May 9 Farrer byelection probably also contributing. Labor took ... <a title="One Nation gains in polls as budget is poorly received in Newspoll" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/18/one-nation-gains-in-polls-as-budget-is-poorly-received-in-newspoll-283121/" aria-label="Read more about One Nation gains in polls as budget is poorly received in Newspoll">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Tuffley, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Applied Ethics and CyberSecurity, Griffith University The human brain is remarkably complex, with trillions of connections that control how you move, think and feel. Yet it’s still vulnerable to debilitating conditions such as paralysis, stroke, epilepsy and various neurodegenerative diseases. Scientists are ... <a title="Brain implants allow us to move and talk. But they could also be hacked" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/18/brain-implants-allow-us-to-move-and-talk-but-they-could-also-be-hacked-281114/" aria-label="Read more about Brain implants allow us to move and talk. But they could also be hacked">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Griffin, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Management, University of California, Davis When rivers degrade, pests spread or drought hits crops, nature sends a bill. Yet it’s one rarely itemised on any balance sheet, because nature’s contribution to business remains genuinely hard to quantify. One major obstacle is ... <a title="Nature is good for business – and we now have numbers to show it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/18/nature-is-good-for-business-and-we-now-have-numbers-to-show-it-283052/" aria-label="Read more about Nature is good for business – and we now have numbers to show it">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nerkez Opacin, Senior Research Fellow in Nature and People, The University of Melbourne One in three Australians says they are lonely. To be lonely is to feel a lack of adequate social connection. Loneliness is about feeling disconnected from others or unable to form the kinds of ... <a title="When we took 37 strangers into the urban bush, their loneliness began to ease" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/18/when-we-took-37-strangers-into-the-urban-bush-their-loneliness-began-to-ease-282378/" aria-label="Read more about When we took 37 strangers into the urban bush, their loneliness began to ease">Read more</a>