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December 13, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Police have closed SH75 between Summit Road and Long Bay Road following a crash. RNZ / REECE BAKER A serious crash has blocked State Highway 75 along Christchurch Akaroa Road on Canterbury’s Banks Peninsula. Police have closed the highway between Summit Road and Long Bay Road, and emergency services are at ... <a title="Road closed after crash on State Highway 75 in Bank’s Peninsula" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/13/road-closed-after-crash-on-state-highway-75-in-banks-peninsula/" aria-label="Read more about Road closed after crash on State Highway 75 in Bank’s Peninsula">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Police say a Wairarapa methamphetamine supplier and his network profited at the expense of the community, and are carrying out court ordered asset seizures. Supplied/ Police More than half a million dollars of riches from organised crime could be stripped from a Wellington methamphetamine dealer after a court order, while his ... <a title="Drug dealing dad to lose more than half a million dollars in asset seizures" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/13/drug-dealing-dad-to-lose-more-than-half-a-million-dollars-in-asset-seizures/" aria-label="Read more about Drug dealing dad to lose more than half a million dollars in asset seizures">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ understands the facility the young person escaped from is Te Puna Wai o Tuhinapo. Supplied / Google Maps A young person has escaped from a youth justice facility in Canterbury. RNZ understands the facility they escaped from is Te Puna Wai o Tuhinapo in Selwyn. In a statement, police said ... <a title="Young person escapes youth justice facility near Christchurch" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/13/young-person-escapes-youth-justice-facility-near-christchurch/" aria-label="Read more about Young person escapes youth justice facility near Christchurch">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The Interislander ferry, Kaiārahi (file). Interislander The Interislander ferry dodged a bullet after suffering a technical failure yesterday, the Maritime Union says. The Kaiārahi experienced steering problems during its 3.30pm voyage across the Cook Strait to Picton. The vessel returned to Wellington as a precaution, docking at 10.05pm. A North Island ... <a title="Interislander ferry failure shows emergency tug needed – Maritime Union" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/13/interislander-ferry-failure-shows-emergency-tug-needed-maritime-union/" aria-label="Read more about Interislander ferry failure shows emergency tug needed – Maritime Union">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has mounted a defence of his leadership, reminding people he rebuilt the National Party after “a state of civil war”. Speculation his job was under threat was whirling around Parliament just a few weeks ago, prompting senior Cabinet ministers to outright deny plotting a coup. A series ... <a title="Christopher Luxon mounts leadership defence: ‘I know what it took to rebuild’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/13/christopher-luxon-mounts-leadership-defence-i-know-what-it-took-to-rebuild/" aria-label="Read more about Christopher Luxon mounts leadership defence: ‘I know what it took to rebuild’">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand A humpback whale tangled in a cray pot line during an earlier incident in Northland in 2018. Catherine Peters DOC A humpback whale has died after becoming caught in a cray pot rope off the Northland coast. The death is revealed in a report for Fisheries New Zealand detailing accidental catches ... <a title="Humpback whale dies after being caught in rope" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/13/humpback-whale-dies-after-being-caught-in-rope/" aria-label="Read more about Humpback whale dies after being caught in rope">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly Police have arrested five people after an aggravated burglary in Auckland’s Albany. The group allegedly entered a store on The Avenue on Friday morning. Police said the offenders were taking items when a fight broke out. They said the store owner was assaulted and received minor injuries. ... <a title="Auckland shop owner assaulted in alleged aggravated burglary" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/13/auckland-shop-owner-assaulted-in-alleged-aggravated-burglary/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland shop owner assaulted in alleged aggravated burglary">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Police say a Wairarapa methamphetamine supplier and his network profited at the expense of the community, and are carrying out court ordered asset seizures. Supplied/ Police More than half a million dollars of riches from organised crime could be stripped from a Wellington methamphetamine dealer after a court order, while his ... <a title="Drug dealing dad to lose more than half a million in asset seizures" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/13/drug-dealing-dad-to-lose-more-than-half-a-million-in-asset-seizures/" aria-label="Read more about Drug dealing dad to lose more than half a million in asset seizures">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand By Noam Mānuka Lazarus, Massey University journalism student Junior Fa’amalosi Isaako was asleep at his home in Flaxmere, Hastings in June, when he was awoken by loud arguing. RNZ Insight / Anneke Smith A man who saved the life of a critically wounded stabbing victim is among 10 people being honoured ... <a title="‘Extraordinary act of bravery’: Junior Isaako stopped violent attack, saved stabbed man’s life" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/13/extraordinary-act-of-bravery-junior-isaako-stopped-violent-attack-saved-stabbed-mans-life/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Extraordinary act of bravery’: Junior Isaako stopped violent attack, saved stabbed man’s life">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly A motorbike rider has died following a crash in Northland. Police said the single-vehicle crash occurred on State Highway 1 in Kaitaia at about 8.50pm on Friday. The rider was taken to hospital in a critical condition but died soon after. Police said a scene examination has ... <a title="Motorbike rider dies in Northland crash" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/13/motorbike-rider-dies-in-northland-crash/" aria-label="Read more about Motorbike rider dies in Northland crash">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ’s money correspondent Susan Edmunds answers your questions. RNZ Got questions? RNZ has launched a new podcast, ‘No Stupid Questions’, with Susan Edmunds. We’d love to hear more of your questions about money and the economy. You can send through written questions, like these ones, but even better, you can drop ... <a title="If I die without kids, does the government get my KiwiSaver? – Ask Susan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/13/if-i-die-without-kids-does-the-government-get-my-kiwisaver-ask-susan/" aria-label="Read more about If I die without kids, does the government get my KiwiSaver? – Ask Susan">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Heath Jones also received a bravery award in 2011. Government House, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet Sergeant Heath Courtenay Jones (left) with then Governor-General Sir Anand Satyanand after receiving the New Zealand Bravery Decoration on 29 June 2011. A police officer who rescued a mother and two kids stranded ... <a title="Police officer commended for bravery after rescuing family during Cyclone Gabrielle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/13/police-officer-commended-for-bravery-after-rescuing-family-during-cyclone-gabrielle/" aria-label="Read more about Police officer commended for bravery after rescuing family during Cyclone Gabrielle">Read more</a>
