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December 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Australia’s Ryan Peake, 2025 New Zealand Open champion. www.photosport.nz Australian golfer Ryan Peake will return to Queenstown to defend his New Zealand Open Crown in February. Peake described his win at Millbrook earlier this year as “life-changing”. The former West Australian bikie gang member said returning as defending champion was “pretty ... <a title="Ryan Peake says it’s ‘pretty cool’ to be defending his NZ Open title" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/18/ryan-peake-says-its-pretty-cool-to-be-defending-his-nz-open-title/" aria-label="Read more about Ryan Peake says it’s ‘pretty cool’ to be defending his NZ Open title">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The rate of gas installations has slowed, as the supply shrinks. 123RF.com Renewables advocates claim it’s “madness” that thousands of new piped gas connections are being installed into houses every year, despite dwindling supply. Organisations pushing for the country to electrify say households will face steeply rising bills in the short ... <a title="Households ponder future of gas as supply dwindles" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/18/households-ponder-future-of-gas-as-supply-dwindles/" aria-label="Read more about Households ponder future of gas as supply dwindles">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King Numbers out today are likely to show the economy rebounded in the September quarter. Gross domestic product – a broad measure of growth – is expected to have grown 0.9 percent in the three months, after a shock 0.9 percent fall in June. Economists are predicting growth ... <a title="GDP announcement expected to show economic rebound" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/18/gdp-announcement-expected-to-show-economic-rebound/" aria-label="Read more about GDP announcement expected to show economic rebound">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Christmas dinner may be an inside affair this year as MetService forecasts a chilly Christmas Day for much of the country. 123rf.com MetService is predicting a chilly Christmas Day as the current cold snap continues. The forecaster says a southwesterly air mass is responsible for cooler than average temperatures for most ... <a title="Chilly Christmas Day forecast for much of the country" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/18/chilly-christmas-day-forecast-for-much-of-the-country/" aria-label="Read more about Chilly Christmas Day forecast for much of the country">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The rate of gas installations has slowed, as the supply shrinks. 123RF.com Renewables advocates claim it’s “madness” that thousands of new piped gas connections are being installed into houses every year, despite dwindling supply. Organisations pushing for the country to electrify say households will face steeply rising bills in the short ... <a title="Households ponder pros, cons of gas against electricity as supply dwindles" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/18/households-ponder-pros-cons-of-gas-against-electricity-as-supply-dwindles/" aria-label="Read more about Households ponder pros, cons of gas against electricity as supply dwindles">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Some Auckland duty lawyers won’t work for a week to highlight poor pay and working conditions. RNZ / Dan Cook An Auckland duty lawyer says he and some of his colleagues will not work for a full week next month, as they battle poor pay and working conditions. Duty lawyers are ... <a title="Auckland duty lawyers stop work for a week to highlight poor pay, working conditions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/18/auckland-duty-lawyers-stop-work-for-a-week-to-highlight-poor-pay-working-conditions/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland duty lawyers stop work for a week to highlight poor pay, working conditions">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand St John says it dispatched multiple ambulances to the scene. ST JOHN NZ Police say two people have reportedly suffered injuries after a gun was fired in the Southland town of Gore. Emergency services were alerted to the incident near Aparima Street shortly before 8pm on Wednesday. St John said it ... <a title="Two people reported injured after gun fired in Gore" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/18/two-people-reported-injured-after-gun-fired-in-gore/" aria-label="Read more about Two people reported injured after gun fired in Gore">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Only police can authorise an air ambulance under current rules. File photo. Supplied / Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust Firefighters begged police for a helicopter to help rescue a teenage girl from a Coromandel cliff face, but police refused because they mistakenly thought the girl was dead. The 13-year-old had seen her ... <a title="Police refused use of rescue chopper because they wrongly thought teenager was dead" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/18/police-refused-use-of-rescue-chopper-because-they-wrongly-thought-teenager-was-dead/" aria-label="Read more about Police refused use of rescue chopper because they wrongly thought teenager was dead">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand ANZ has seen more customers asking about switching from floating rate to a fixed one. RNZ Home loan customers are hustling to fix as rates start to rise. The country’s biggest bank, ANZ, said it had seen more customers asking about switching from a floating rate to a fixed one in ... <a title="Customers jump on fixed terms as rates rise" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/18/customers-jump-on-fixed-terms-as-rates-rise/" aria-label="Read more about Customers jump on fixed terms as rates rise">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Inside a cell at Christchurch Men’s Prison (File photo). Luke McPake / The Wireless. Prison staff’s failure to answer an emergency call from a cell intercom and a subsequent delay in starting CPR potentially contributed to the death of a Christchurch inmate, a coroner has ruled. The 67-year-old man, whose name ... <a title="‘Significant failure on the part of Corrections’: Inmate dies after guards slow to answer intercom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/18/significant-failure-on-the-part-of-corrections-inmate-dies-after-guards-slow-to-answer-intercom/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Significant failure on the part of Corrections’: Inmate dies after guards slow to answer intercom">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Master Control staff claim the calls were overlooked, because they were very busy. RNZ/Calvin Samuel A coroner is critical of Department of Corrections staff for failing to answer calls for help the day an inmate was found dead in his cell. After an inquiry into his death, coroner Katherine Greig has ... <a title="Coroner rebukes Corrections staff for slow response to suicide alarm" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/18/coroner-rebukes-corrections-staff-for-slow-response-to-suicide-alarm/" aria-label="Read more about Coroner rebukes Corrections staff for slow response to suicide alarm">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Epidemiologist Michael Baker. Luke Pilkinton-Ching A leading epidemiologist says a plan to ditch an online tool tracking respiratory illness is short-sighted, and will leave a big gap in surveillance. The Ministry of Health is not renewing its contract for the FluTracking tool, as it looks to cut costs. FluTracking New Zealand ... <a title="Plan to ditch flu tracking tool will leave big data gap, epidemiologist says" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/18/plan-to-ditch-flu-tracking-tool-will-leave-big-data-gap-epidemiologist-says/" aria-label="Read more about Plan to ditch flu tracking tool will leave big data gap, epidemiologist says">Read more</a>
