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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand More than 1000 people, with more expected, are attending a community vigil in the wake of the Mt Maunganui landslide. Families of the victims, having held another service with emergency services at the base of Mauao, will be in attendance with seats set aside for them. Older members of the community ... <a title="Watch: Community vigil for Mount Maunganui landslide victims" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/watch-community-vigil-for-mount-maunganui-landslide-victims/" aria-label="Read more about Watch: Community vigil for Mount Maunganui landslide victims">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand More than 100 people have mucked in to help clean up rubbish from Wellington’s waterfront today. Wellington Museum’s annual Great Big Waterfront Clean Up is in its eighth year. On average each year, the clean up usually collected around 1500 litres of rubbish. Organiser Naiomi Murgatroyd expected this year’s total would ... <a title="More than 100 people help clean up rubbish from Wellington’s waterfront" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/more-than-100-people-help-clean-up-rubbish-from-wellingtons-waterfront/" aria-label="Read more about More than 100 people help clean up rubbish from Wellington’s waterfront">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Diggers working at the burnt-out Bromley wastewater treatment plant on 10 June 2022. Christchurch City Council A putrid stench lingering in Christchurch’s eastern suburbs from the city’s wastewater treatment plant is expected to persist for at least another week. Locals have complained of nausea and headaches and say the odour from ... <a title="Christchurch’s Bromley plant stench expected to continue for at least a week" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/christchurchs-bromley-plant-stench-expected-to-continue-for-at-least-a-week/" aria-label="Read more about Christchurch’s Bromley plant stench expected to continue for at least a week">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand During the last week the clinic did over 100 extractions, on top of check-ups and cleaning, Dr Isha Woodhams says. A pop-up clinic offering free dental care in Wairoa has been overwhelmed with demand in an area that has not had a full-time dentist for half a decade. The clinic is ... <a title="Huge demand for Wairoa pop-up dental clinic offering free care" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/huge-demand-for-wairoa-pop-up-dental-clinic-offering-free-care/" aria-label="Read more about Huge demand for Wairoa pop-up dental clinic offering free care">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Arthur Anae (right) with Samoa’s Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Leuatea Polataivao Schmidt who says he backs the petition. Facebook / Anae Arthur Anae More than 45,000 people have signed a petition demanding equal treatment of visitors from New Zealand’s Pacific neighbours. At the moment they must apply for a visitor visa, provide ... <a title="45,000 sign petition demanding equal treatment of visitors from Pacific nations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/45000-sign-petition-demanding-equal-treatment-of-visitors-from-pacific-nations/" aria-label="Read more about 45,000 sign petition demanding equal treatment of visitors from Pacific nations">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / REECE BAKER One person has died after a single vehicle crash in the Auckland suburb of Taupaki. Emergency services were alerted to the crash on Nelson Road at 5.20pm. The road is closed and diversions in place. The Serious Crash Unit is attending. Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero, ... <a title="One dead after Auckland crash" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/one-dead-after-auckland-crash/" aria-label="Read more about One dead after Auckland crash">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Breakers coach Petteri Koponen Blake Armstrong/Photosport The New Zealand Breakers have not won any silverware in more than a decade but that could change next month. This week the Breakers cemented their place in the final of the Ignite Cup, thanks to other results going their way, and they will face ... <a title="Basketball: Breakers one win away from Ignite Cup pay day" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/basketball-breakers-one-win-away-from-ignite-cup-pay-day/" aria-label="Read more about Basketball: Breakers one win away from Ignite Cup pay day">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand A community vigil is being held in Tauranga on Thursday evening to honour those missing and the lives lost following the landslide at Mount Maunganui. Hosted by the Tauranga City Council, the vigil is a time for the community to “come together in aroha – to support one another”, as well ... <a title="Watch live: Community vigil for Mount Maunganui landslide victims" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/watch-live-community-vigil-for-mount-maunganui-landslide-victims/" aria-label="Read more about Watch live: Community vigil for Mount Maunganui landslide victims">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / REECE BAKER A man has been charged with murder following the death of a woman in Pukehina in the Bay of Plenty. The woman’s body was discovered on New Year’s day in a house in the rural area. A 50-year-old man who was initially charged with assaulting a person ... <a title="Man charged with murder after woman’s death on New Year’s Day in Pukehina" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/man-charged-with-murder-after-womans-death-on-new-years-day-in-pukehina/" aria-label="Read more about Man charged with murder after woman’s death on New Year’s Day in Pukehina">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand A community vigil is being held in Tauranga on Thursday evening to honour those missing and the lives lost following the landslide at Mount Maunganui. Hosted by the Tauranga City Council, the vigil is a time for the community to “come together in aroha – to support one another”, as well ... <a title="Watch live: Mount Maunganui landslide community vigil" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/watch-live-mount-maunganui-landslide-community-vigil/" aria-label="Read more about Watch live: Mount Maunganui landslide community vigil">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / Kim Baker Wilson Another victim of the fatal Mount Maunganui landslide has been formally identified as Måns Loke Bernhardsson, from Sweden. Six people died in the Mauao slip last Thursday. At an identification hearing at Tauranga District Court this evening, coroner Louella Dunn formally identified the 20 year old ... <a title="Second Mount Maunganui landslide victim formally identified as Swedish tourist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/second-mount-maunganui-landslide-victim-formally-identified-as-swedish-tourist/" aria-label="Read more about Second Mount Maunganui landslide victim formally identified as Swedish tourist">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Wellington Water says crews are working to fix a burst water pipe on Oriental Parade in Wellington. Supplied / Wellington Water A burst water pipe has sent silt and discoloured water into Wellington’s Oriental Bay on Thursday afternoon. At 2.30pm crews responded to a burst drinking water pipe on Oriental Parade. ... <a title="Burst water pipe sends silt into Wellington’s Oriental Bay" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/burst-water-pipe-sends-silt-into-wellingtons-oriental-bay/" aria-label="Read more about Burst water pipe sends silt into Wellington’s Oriental Bay">Read more</a>
