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April 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand A farmer with a farm fuel tank. SUPPLIED/LEVNO Australasian bosses across agriculture, aviation and freight sectors are in the ear of their government officials in dealing with the chaotic global supply chain. The government announced on Tuesday it secured an initial agreement with Z Energy to procure an additional 90 million ... <a title="New Zealand and Australia collaborate on fuel, fertiliser pressures with agriculture, aviation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/29/new-zealand-and-australia-collaborate-on-fuel-fertiliser-pressures-with-agriculture-aviation/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand and Australia collaborate on fuel, fertiliser pressures with agriculture, aviation">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Supplied New Zealand’s wool industry is looking to spin a sustainable future backed by farming from its farmers and industry. Wool-producing farmers paid a wool levy for many years that helped promote the sector, build markets and fund research and development. But dissatisfied sheep farmers voted to disestablish the governing New ... <a title="Transparency vital to possible revival of sheep farmers’ wool levy, Federated Farmers says" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/29/transparency-vital-to-possible-revival-of-sheep-farmers-wool-levy-federated-farmers-says/" aria-label="Read more about Transparency vital to possible revival of sheep farmers’ wool levy, Federated Farmers says">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand One person has been seriously injured. Supplied / Ken Cox Firefighters have extinguished a fire that tore through a Timaru industrial premises this morning. One person was seriously injured and taken to Christchurch Hospital by helicopter. Fire and Emergency was called to the fire in High Street shortly before 9am on ... <a title="Person hurt as blaze tears through large industrial building" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/29/person-hurt-as-blaze-tears-through-large-industrial-building/" aria-label="Read more about Person hurt as blaze tears through large industrial building">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Green Party candidate for Māngere Michel Mulipola. Layla Bailey-McDowell / RNZ The Greens are defending their candidate for Māngere, saying now he has been selected he will be expected to meet different standards of behaviour. Michel Mulipola was recently confirmed as the Green Party candidate for the South Auckland seat of ... <a title="Greens defend Māngere candidate Michel Mulipola for past social media posts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/29/greens-defend-mangere-candidate-michel-mulipola-for-past-social-media-posts/" aria-label="Read more about Greens defend Māngere candidate Michel Mulipola for past social media posts">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand National MP Grant McCallum accepts a petition from ultra-marathon swimmer Jono Ridler to ban bottom trawling. Giles Dexter Ultra-marathon swimmer Jono Ridler has handed his bottom trawling ban petition over to Parliament, with a National MP hinting the party will take a policy on bottom trawling to the election. The petition ... <a title="Ultra-marathon swimmer Jono Ridler delivers petition to ban bottom trawling to Parliament" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/29/ultra-marathon-swimmer-jono-ridler-delivers-petition-to-ban-bottom-trawling-to-parliament/" aria-label="Read more about Ultra-marathon swimmer Jono Ridler delivers petition to ban bottom trawling to Parliament">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Everlee Wihongi has been in US detention since the start of April. Supplied A New Zealand woman who is being held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the US will spend another six weeks in a detention facility awaiting her next hearing with a judge. Everlee Wihongi was taken into ICE ... <a title="Kiwi being held in ICE detention faces another 6 weeks in facility before new hearing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/29/kiwi-being-held-in-ice-detention-faces-another-6-weeks-in-facility-before-new-hearing/" aria-label="Read more about Kiwi being held in ICE detention faces another 6 weeks in facility before new hearing">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand TVNZ political editor Maiki Sherman. Aotearoa Media Collective Mike Hosking says TVNZ threatened legal action against NZME if it was to publish a story about its political editor allegedly using a homophobic slur. On Tuesday, Finance Minister Nicola Willis said she shut down an event in her office last year after ... <a title="Mike Hosking says TVNZ ‘threatened to sue us’ over Maiki Sherman story" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/29/mike-hosking-says-tvnz-threatened-to-sue-us-over-maiki-sherman-story/" aria-label="Read more about Mike Hosking says TVNZ ‘threatened to sue us’ over Maiki Sherman story">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Dr Ben Bell and Rumi Lourie. Supplied / Department of Conservation A 12-year-old in Lower Hutt has made a discovery so unexpected it got the attention of the Department of Conservation (DOC). Rumi Lourie, who wants to study to become an entomologist, was exploring around a creek near his home when ... <a title="Lower Hutt boy finds rare native Hochstetter’s frog exploring creek near his home" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/29/lower-hutt-boy-finds-rare-native-hochstetters-frog-exploring-creek-near-his-home/" aria-label="Read more about Lower Hutt boy finds rare native Hochstetter’s frog exploring creek near his home">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Dilworth School in Auckland. RNZ / Dan Cook A man in his 60s has pleaded not guilty to historical sexual offending at Dilworth School. A number of former staff at the Auckland school have been imprisoned after students were found to have been abused between 1950 and 2005. His arrest marked ... <a title="Dilworth abuse inquiry: Man pleads not guilty to sexual offending" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/29/dilworth-abuse-inquiry-man-pleads-not-guilty-to-sexual-offending/" aria-label="Read more about Dilworth abuse inquiry: Man pleads not guilty to sexual offending">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand STONZ president Jordan Tewhaiti-Smith Supplied / STONZ Junior doctors in the Specialty Trainees union have secured a pay increase totalling nearly six percent over the next two years, without the need to take industrial action. Specialty Trainees of New Zealand, or STONZ, represents graduated doctors who have not yet specialised – ... <a title="6% pay rise agreed for junior doctors" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/29/6-pay-rise-agreed-for-junior-doctors/" aria-label="Read more about 6% pay rise agreed for junior doctors">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The peace statue was gifted to New Zealand by the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance. Supplied / Auckland Council Plans to commemorate the thousands of women and girls forced into sexual slavery by Japanese armed forces have been turned down. About 200,000 victims, who became known as ‘comfort women’, were ... <a title="Disappointment as plans to commemorate victims of historic sexual slavery rejected" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/29/disappointment-as-plans-to-commemorate-victims-of-historic-sexual-slavery-rejected/" aria-label="Read more about Disappointment as plans to commemorate victims of historic sexual slavery rejected">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Canisters of nitrous oxide left in a South Auckland car park (file image). RNZ / Rose Garratt Large nitrous oxide canisters will automatically be classed as psychoactive substances if they do not have a lawful use, with the government introducing measures to crack down on their misuse. The gas has common ... <a title="Government cracking down on large nitrous oxide canisters as misuse continues to grow" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/29/government-cracking-down-on-large-nitrous-oxide-canisters-as-misuse-continues-to-grow/" aria-label="Read more about Government cracking down on large nitrous oxide canisters as misuse continues to grow">Read more</a>
