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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Damage to State Highway 35 from a landslide. Supplied / NZTA Work is continuing on opening roads in the North Island after last week’s severe weather wreaked havoc on the transport network. Slips and flooding have significantly damaged State Highway 35 on the East Coast and State Highway 25 in the ... <a title="Work continues to reopen significantly damaged state highways" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/work-continues-to-reopen-significantly-damaged-state-highways/" aria-label="Read more about Work continues to reopen significantly damaged state highways">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand School uniforms can cost hundreds of dollars. RNZ / Richard Tindiller The head of an Auckland high school is defending high uniform costs, arguing it is in students’ best interests. Westlake Boys High School headmaster Paul Fordham told Morning Report while he acknowledged the start of the year was an expensive ... <a title="Students learn better in uniform, headmaster says, brushing off cost concerns" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/students-learn-better-in-uniform-headmaster-says-brushing-off-cost-concerns/" aria-label="Read more about Students learn better in uniform, headmaster says, brushing off cost concerns">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The media KiwiSaver balanced fund returned 1.7 percent for the quarter. (File photo) Unsplash Warnings of impending share market doom didn’t play out in 2025, and the year ended with solid returns for KiwiSaver investors – and some change at the top of the performance tables. Actuarial firm MJW has released ... <a title="Strong three years for KiwiSaver members, as new player takes top spot" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/strong-three-years-for-kiwisaver-members-as-new-player-takes-top-spot/" aria-label="Read more about Strong three years for KiwiSaver members, as new player takes top spot">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The man was taken to hospital where he remained in a critical condition. (File photo) RNZ / Richard Tindiller A man has been critically injured in an assault in Hamilton overnight. Detective Sergeant Johnathon O’Byrne said the man was found by police on Avalon Drive at 2.40am on Thursday and he ... <a title="Man critically injured after overnight assault in Hamilton" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/man-critically-injured-after-overnight-assault-in-hamilton/" aria-label="Read more about Man critically injured after overnight assault in Hamilton">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Colin McGonagle, front left, with friends at Side Track cafe in Mount Maunganui. RNZ / Lauren Crimp There’s been a small glimmer of positivity in Mount Maunganui with part of the cordon near Mauao relaxed, allowing about a dozen businesses to reopen six days after the deadly landslide. But just a ... <a title="Businesses in Mount Maunganui reopen, thoughts remain with landslide victims" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/businesses-in-mount-maunganui-reopen-thoughts-remain-with-landslide-victims/" aria-label="Read more about Businesses in Mount Maunganui reopen, thoughts remain with landslide victims">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand For his latest novel, Softly Calls the Devil, Chris Blake has stepped out from behind the pseudonym he used for his debut. He published The Sound of Her Voice – a double finalist in the 2018 Ngaio Marsh Awards – as Nathan Blackwell, a name he adopted to keep his writing ... <a title="Cop-turned-author drops his fake pen name" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/cop-turned-author-drops-his-fake-pen-name/" aria-label="Read more about Cop-turned-author drops his fake pen name">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Damage from the Auckland Anniversary Weekend floods, from top left: Derek Judge’s Swanson home was flooded by the rapidly rising Waimoko Stream; houses in Swanson sit abandoned and vandalised in November; Andrew Marshall’s red-stricken house in Swanson is still being hit by vandals a year on from the floods; Julie Armstrong’s ... <a title="Auckland homeowners facing further flood risk head to court" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/auckland-homeowners-facing-further-flood-risk-head-to-court/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland homeowners facing further flood risk head to court">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand File pic 123RF The unintended consequences of proposed changes to competition law could add unnecessary cost to mergers and acquisitions, while undermining investor confidence, a prominent law firm says. Chapman Tripp said some of the changes to the Commerce (Promoting Competition and Other Matters) Amendment Bill were positive, but others were ... <a title="Concern business costs may spiral in wake of competition law reforms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/concern-business-costs-may-spiral-in-wake-of-competition-law-reforms/" aria-label="Read more about Concern business costs may spiral in wake of competition law reforms">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand A photo of Alex Pretti is displayed at a makeshift memorial in his honor in the area where he was shot dead by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 26, 2026. AFP / OCTAVIO JONES At least two federal agents who were involved in Saturday’s fatal shooting of a ... <a title="US agents involved in Minneapolis shooting placed on leave – reports" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/us-agents-involved-in-minneapolis-shooting-placed-on-leave-reports/" aria-label="Read more about US agents involved in Minneapolis shooting placed on leave – reports">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Ngāruawāhia volunteer fire station’s jet skis assist police with a water rescue during Cyclone Hale in 2023. Supplied Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ) faced tough questioning at the Governance and Administration Select Committee in Parliament on Wednesday, much of it focused on the organisation’s banning of all powered watercraft used ... <a title="Fire and Emergency faces tough questions over decision to ground its watercraft" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/fire-and-emergency-faces-tough-questions-over-decision-to-ground-its-watercraft/" aria-label="Read more about Fire and Emergency faces tough questions over decision to ground its watercraft">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Older New Zealanders with British heritage are grappling with border rule changes. 123RF Older New Zealanders with British heritage are grappling with border rule changes – and question marks over citizenship – as they prepare for visits to see relatives in the United Kingdom. UK migrants have discovered they need to ... <a title="Babyboomers and middle-aged New Zealanders struggle with UK’s new border rules" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/babyboomers-and-middle-aged-new-zealanders-struggle-with-uks-new-border-rules/" aria-label="Read more about Babyboomers and middle-aged New Zealanders struggle with UK’s new border rules">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand New Zealand’s biggest bank has downgraded its forecast for house prices this year. RNZ New Zealand’s biggest bank has downgraded its forecast for house prices this year, but new research shows not everyone is feeling the same way. ANZ said house prices had been broadly flat for three years and there ... <a title="Biggest bank downgrades house price forecast" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/29/biggest-bank-downgrades-house-price-forecast/" aria-label="Read more about Biggest bank downgrades house price forecast">Read more</a>
