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November 19, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Chef Joe McLeod. RNZ/Nick Monro A collective of indigenous chefs are using WIPCE as a springboard for cultural connection through kai. The group includes Māori chefs Kārena and Kasey Bird, Joe McLeod and Kia Kanuta, as well as Hawaiian Kealoha Domingo, Native American Crystal Wahpepah and Samoan Henry Onesemo. Nearly 4000 ... <a title="Indigenous chefs connect through kai at WIPCE" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/indigenous-chefs-connect-through-kai-at-wipce/" aria-label="Read more about Indigenous chefs connect through kai at WIPCE">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Francis DeVries (21) of New Zealand fights for control against Leonardo Campana (16) of Ecuador in the first half of the International Friendly at Sports Illustrated Stadium. Ira L Black The All Whites have ended the year with a 2-0 loss against Ecuador in New Jersey. In the first ever game ... <a title="All Whites go down 2-0 to Ecuador in New Jersey" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/all-whites-go-down-2-0-to-ecuador-in-new-jersey/" aria-label="Read more about All Whites go down 2-0 to Ecuador in New Jersey">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The recalled sand products. Supplied A West Auckland School has confirmed a small number of coloured sand samples tested for asbestos have come back positive. Several coloured play sand products have been recalled after tests found a naturally occurring asbestos. About 40 schools and early childcare centres have closed, or planned ... <a title="Auckland school returns positive test results for asbestos in play sand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/auckland-school-returns-positive-test-results-for-asbestos-in-play-sand/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland school returns positive test results for asbestos in play sand">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Educational Colours Rainbow Sand has been recalled. Supplied / Product Safety NZ Thames Coromandel District Council hopes to be able to say soon when two of its libraries caught up in the contaminated play sand scare will re-open. Action around potentially asbestos contaminated children’s play sand has expanded beyond schools and ... <a title="Libraries caught up in asbestos play sand scare" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/libraries-caught-up-in-asbestos-play-sand-scare/" aria-label="Read more about Libraries caught up in asbestos play sand scare">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / REECE BAKER Police are responding to an incident in Waikanae on Kāpiti Coast. Emergency Services were called to Kakariki Grove just before 3.30pm. A police spokesperson says officers are at the scene and people are asked to avoid the area. Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero, a daily newsletter ... <a title="Police responding to incident on Kāpiti Coast" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/police-responding-to-incident-on-kapiti-coast/" aria-label="Read more about Police responding to incident on Kāpiti Coast">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Laser attacks could have catastrophic consequences, say pilots. File photo. 123rf.com A rescue helicopter in Otago followed a car for 30 kilometres after lasers were pointed at the pilots flying on a hospital transfer mission this week. Local pilots have condemned the behaviour of people who point lasers at helicopters, after ... <a title="Rescue chopper crew chase down car after laser strike" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/rescue-chopper-crew-chase-down-car-after-laser-strike/" aria-label="Read more about Rescue chopper crew chase down car after laser strike">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Police Commissioner Richard Chambers ordered a “rapid review” of police’s information security controls after the McSkimming case came to light. RNZ / Samuel Rillstone Twenty police staff are under investigation in relation to “misuse and inappropriate content”, police have now confirmed. Police say they cannot rule out criminal investigations into the ... <a title="Twenty police staff investigated over ‘misuse and inappropriate content’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/twenty-police-staff-investigated-over-misuse-and-inappropriate-content/" aria-label="Read more about Twenty police staff investigated over ‘misuse and inappropriate content’">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Screenshot / Google Maps A controversial outside application to change an Auckland school to a charter school has been abandoned. Bangerz Education and Wellbeing Trust and a former board member, Siaosi Gavet, were behind the bid. They argued Kelston Boys’ High is violent, has low achievement and attendance rates and has ... <a title="Kelston Boys’ High School charter takeover bid abandoned" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/kelston-boys-high-school-charter-takeover-bid-abandoned/" aria-label="Read more about Kelston Boys’ High School charter takeover bid abandoned">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand New Zealand cited for sabotaging Indigenous tobacco-free aspirations and having alarming vaping rates among young people. 123rf.com Researchers say New Zealand is attracting international attention for all the wrong reasons following it being awarded the ‘Dirty Ashtray’ award. The ‘Dirty Ashtray’ was given to New Zealand at the biennial meeting of ... <a title="New Zealand receives ‘Dirty Ashtray’ award for poor progress in tobacco control" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/new-zealand-receives-dirty-ashtray-award-for-poor-progress-in-tobacco-control/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand receives ‘Dirty Ashtray’ award for poor progress in tobacco control">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Rajinder has been accused of murdering Gurjit Singh in Dunedin in January last year. RNZ The sister of a man accused of killing Dunedin’s Gurjit Singh says he was not upset when he discovered the woman who rejected him had married Singh instead, a court has heard. A 35-year-old, known only ... <a title="Gurjit Singh murder trial: Sister says murder-accused was not upset over love triangle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/gurjit-singh-murder-trial-sister-says-murder-accused-was-not-upset-over-love-triangle/" aria-label="Read more about Gurjit Singh murder trial: Sister says murder-accused was not upset over love triangle">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Smoke seen from the field at St Kentigern College in Pakuranga. Supplied A two-storey classroom block at Auckland’s St Kentigern College in Pakuranga caught fire on Wednesday afternoon, leading to a full school evacuation. About 20 firefighters attended the incident after Fire and Emergency said they were called to the school ... <a title="A two-storey classroom fire was promptly put out at Saint Kentigern College" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/a-two-storey-classroom-fire-was-promptly-put-out-at-saint-kentigern-college/" aria-label="Read more about A two-storey classroom fire was promptly put out at Saint Kentigern College">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand A man who was travelling on State Highway 25 towards Coromandel town this morning said he saw rocks, small slips and “spontaneous waterfall” along the way. Mieke Kregting took a video of what appeared to be a landslide along SH25. The video showed rocks and debris spilling onto the highway, and ... <a title="Weather: Rockfall on highway near Coromandel township" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/weather-rockfall-on-highway-near-coromandel-township/" aria-label="Read more about Weather: Rockfall on highway near Coromandel township">Read more</a>
