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April 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / Dan Cook Petrol station owners admit they are profiling people at the pump before letting them fill up amid a surge in fuel drive-offs. As costs climb, those at the pump are getting desperate, with police reporting 100 extra fuel drive-offs a week since the start of March. America’s ... <a title="Petrol station owners profiling customers as fuel thefts surge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/23/petrol-station-owners-profiling-customers-as-fuel-thefts-surge/" aria-label="Read more about Petrol station owners profiling customers as fuel thefts surge">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand An officer rode to work at Christchurch Central Police Station on a horse named Kitty. Supplied A Christchurch police officer arrived at work on an unusual mode of transport this morning – a horse named Kitty. RNZ was tipped off on Thursday that an officer had hoofed it into work. It’s ... <a title="Giddy up: Police officer opts for horsepower to get to work" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/23/giddy-up-police-officer-opts-for-horsepower-to-get-to-work/" aria-label="Read more about Giddy up: Police officer opts for horsepower to get to work">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Jim and Mary Barr, who are both retired art curators and writers, started collecting in the early 1970s buying works by young artists who were then relatively unknown, Mary Barr told RNZ’s Nine to Noon. “It was a very different environment. Artwork, relatively speaking, was actually quite cheap. And that made ... <a title="Couple donate over 400 artworks from private collection to Dunedin gallery" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/23/couple-donate-over-400-artworks-from-private-collection-to-dunedin-gallery/" aria-label="Read more about Couple donate over 400 artworks from private collection to Dunedin gallery">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Police said Inna, 61, was located safe and well after being missing since last Friday. NZ Police / SUPPLIED A woman who was reported missing from Auckland’s Waiheke Island has been found safe, police have said. Inna, 61, went missing last Friday after last being seen boarding a bus to Matiatia ... <a title="Missing woman last seen boarding bus on Auckland’s Waiheke Island found safe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/23/missing-woman-last-seen-boarding-bus-on-aucklands-waiheke-island-found-safe/" aria-label="Read more about Missing woman last seen boarding bus on Auckland’s Waiheke Island found safe">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand A couple of the breakthrough acts are up for multiple prizes at this year’s AMAs. Borderline is a finalist alongside Lorde and Benee for best pop artist and bilingual MĀ is up for album of the year, best Māori artist and best alternative artist. Shane Walker stood out at the Pacific ... <a title="New Zealand’s breakthrough artist of the year finalists revealed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/23/new-zealands-breakthrough-artist-of-the-year-finalists-revealed/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand’s breakthrough artist of the year finalists revealed">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Finance Minister Nicola Willis faces questions as economic outlook downgraded. RNZ / Samuel Rillstone Treasury officials have this week decided to revisit their economic forecasts for this year’s Budget – just five weeks before its scheduled delivery. In a briefing at her Beehive office, Finance Minister Nicola Willis told reporters the ... <a title="Treasury officials revisit economic forecasts ahead of Budget delivery" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/23/treasury-officials-revisit-economic-forecasts-ahead-of-budget-delivery/" aria-label="Read more about Treasury officials revisit economic forecasts ahead of Budget delivery">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / Nate McKinnon Air New Zealand’s Airpoints programme is gone, replaced by Koru. But many people have been left wondering after the Wednesday announcement – what’s actually changed? Here’s what we know. The name Airpoints is out. Koru is in. But Airpoints dollars remain the currency and status points are ... <a title="Airpoints gone – but what’s actually changing?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/23/airpoints-gone-but-whats-actually-changing/" aria-label="Read more about Airpoints gone – but what’s actually changing?">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand In 1916, in the middle of the Great War, 2nd Lieutenant Leonard (Len) James Shaw of the 2nd Auckland Battalion sent a pressed Flanders poppy in folded paper to his niece Jessie Osborne in Waikato. Shaw had picked the poppy at night from his trench on the Western Front. His sporadic ... <a title="How the poppy has endured as our symbol of war and remembrance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/23/how-the-poppy-has-endured-as-our-symbol-of-war-and-remembrance/" aria-label="Read more about How the poppy has endured as our symbol of war and remembrance">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ/LouisDunham Police are working to determine if items found in a search of Christchurch’s red zone are linked to missing woman Rowena Walker. Walker was last seen on 14 August when she was captured on CCTV in Bassett Street in Burwood with an associate. Her mother reported her missing on 22 ... <a title="Items found in Christchurch red zone search for missing woman Rowena Walker" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/23/items-found-in-christchurch-red-zone-search-for-missing-woman-rowena-walker/" aria-label="Read more about Items found in Christchurch red zone search for missing woman Rowena Walker">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand NZ Police/Supplied A body found in the aftermath of the Wellington floods earlier this week has been formally identified as Philip Sutton. Sutton went missing on Monday morning as bad weather hit the capital, torrential rain leading to flooding and a local state of emergency. A family member called emergency services ... <a title="Body found after floods confirmed as Philip Sutton" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/23/body-found-after-floods-confirmed-as-philip-sutton/" aria-label="Read more about Body found after floods confirmed as Philip Sutton">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand A scathing review of police by the Public Service Commission has found an “integrity reset is urgently needed” with a perceived culture that holds seniors to a “lesser standard than juniors”. It also found a “wave of crime” arriving on New Zealand shores and says police are “struggling to keep up”. ... <a title="Review of police integrity finds reset ‘urgently needed’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/23/review-of-police-integrity-finds-reset-urgently-needed/" aria-label="Read more about Review of police integrity finds reset ‘urgently needed’">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Ngā Kaitiaki Mauri board member, Russell Smith. Supplied/Ngā Kaitiaki Mauri The first dedicated kaupapa Māori workforce capability framework for the mahi tūkino (sexual violence) sector has been launched. Advocates hope the framework will support the “under-resourced and stretched” Māori workforce supporting victims of physical and sexual violence. The framework, He Ara ... <a title="First kaupapa Māori workforce capability framework for sexual violence sector launched" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/23/first-kaupapa-maori-workforce-capability-framework-for-sexual-violence-sector-launched/" aria-label="Read more about First kaupapa Māori workforce capability framework for sexual violence sector launched">Read more</a>
