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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Residents fear a citywide downgrade of all street surfaces. 123rf Chipseal is cheap seal – that was the message to council, as Pāpāmoa residents continued their campaign against chipseal road resurfacing. After an RNZ story last week, Tauranga City Council acknowledged residents’ concerns, which included changing some streets from asphalt to ... <a title="Pāpāmoa residents make stand against chipseal roads at Tauranga City Council meeting" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/papamoa-residents-make-stand-against-chipseal-roads-at-tauranga-city-council-meeting/" aria-label="Read more about Pāpāmoa residents make stand against chipseal roads at Tauranga City Council meeting">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / Nate McKinnon The wife of a Dunedin man stabbed to death has revealed she rejected a proposal from the man accused of his murder. Gurjit Singh was found dead on the lawn of his home in January last year after being stabbed more than 40 times. A 35-year-old man, ... <a title="Wife of mudered man had rejected accused killer’s profile from marriage bureau" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/wife-of-mudered-man-had-rejected-accused-killers-profile-from-marriage-bureau/" aria-label="Read more about Wife of mudered man had rejected accused killer’s profile from marriage bureau">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Police outside the home where the children died. Jimmy Ellingham / RNZ Police have confirmed they are now treating the fatal incident in Sanson on Saturday – where three children and their father died – as a homicide. Police are continuing to comb through the scene of a house fire in ... <a title="Sanson deaths now being treated as homicide, police confirm" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/sanson-deaths-now-being-treated-as-homicide-police-confirm/" aria-label="Read more about Sanson deaths now being treated as homicide, police confirm">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Queenstown Lakes District Council property and infrastructure general manager Tony Avery said the situation was unfortunate. RNZ / Marika Khabazi Otago Regional Council is investigating a series of failures at Wanaka’s wastewater treatment plant. Queenstown Lakes District Council says heavy rain hit last month while the Project Pure Wastewater Treatment Plant ... <a title="Otago Regional Council investigates Wanaka wastewater treatment plant failures" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/otago-regional-council-investigates-wanaka-wastewater-treatment-plant-failures/" aria-label="Read more about Otago Regional Council investigates Wanaka wastewater treatment plant failures">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Rescued Kitchen products. The Pantry / Rescued Kitchen / Instagram University of Auckland students and a food upcycling company have turned old loaves of bread back into flour and then back into homestyle baking. While the flour is a product of Rescued Kitchen, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering senior lecturer ... <a title="Is it possible to turn bread back into usable flour?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/is-it-possible-to-turn-bread-back-into-usable-flour/" aria-label="Read more about Is it possible to turn bread back into usable flour?">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Jomon Perumayan Joseph was caught with a stun gun on the dashboard of his Uber vehicle. NZME A Supreme Court decision to reject Uber’s appeal against an Employment Court decision that found four of its drivers were employees, not contractors, may raise tricky tax questions, one tax expert says. Deloitte tax ... <a title="What will the Uber decision mean for drivers’ tax bills?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/what-will-the-uber-decision-mean-for-drivers-tax-bills/" aria-label="Read more about What will the Uber decision mean for drivers’ tax bills?">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand A petition containing 90,000 signatures is presented to Parliament. RNZ / Giles Dexter A petition calling for the government to urgently fix the health system – which organisers estimate is New Zealand’s longest petition ever – has been delivered to Parliament. Unfurled across Parliament’s lawn, the petition stretched down the steps, ... <a title="200kg of signatures: Huge petition to fix ‘broken’ health system presented to Parliament" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/200kg-of-signatures-huge-petition-to-fix-broken-health-system-presented-to-parliament/" aria-label="Read more about 200kg of signatures: Huge petition to fix ‘broken’ health system presented to Parliament">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand An ordinary annual insect survey has uncovered an extraordinary grasshopper. Department of Conservation ranger Jen Schori said she could not believe her eyes, as colleagues called her over to see a deep pink grasshopper near Lake Takapō. Schori was taking part in the annual grasshopper survey in the Mackenzie Basin, when ... <a title="Rare pink grasshopper discovered during annual Mackenzie Basin survey" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/rare-pink-grasshopper-discovered-during-annual-mackenzie-basin-survey/" aria-label="Read more about Rare pink grasshopper discovered during annual Mackenzie Basin survey">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Dunedin High Court. RNZ / Nate McKinnon Slain Dunedin man Gurjit Singh planned to install security cameras, after discovering his garage door was open weeks before his death, a friend says. Singh was found dead on the lawn of his home in January last year, stabbed more than 40 times. A ... <a title="Murdered Dunedin man planned to install security cameras before death" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/murdered-dunedin-man-planned-to-install-security-cameras-before-death/" aria-label="Read more about Murdered Dunedin man planned to install security cameras before death">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Moeaia Tuai’ is on trial in the High Court at Auckland. Gill Bonnett A carpenter says he never saw an alleged slavery victim work at three lodges or a campground. Suli Tuilolo has been giving evidence at Moeaia Tuai’s trial at the High Court at Auckland. Tuai, 63, has pleaded not ... <a title="Slavery trial: Defendant’s diary of beatings read to jury" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/slavery-trial-defendants-diary-of-beatings-read-to-jury/" aria-label="Read more about Slavery trial: Defendant’s diary of beatings read to jury">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Kmart has withdrawn all its sand-based products. (File photo) Supplied / MBIE A parent fielding concerns from others after testing found asbestos in a range of coloured play sand says they feel like nobody is giving them clear advice on what to do with sand in their homes. Several schools and ... <a title="Parents confused by what to do with potentially contaminated play sand in their homes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/parents-confused-by-what-to-do-with-potentially-contaminated-play-sand-in-their-homes/" aria-label="Read more about Parents confused by what to do with potentially contaminated play sand in their homes">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Chris Bishop. Supplied Senior minister Chris Bishop is rejecting criticism over a funding decision shifting Kāinga Ora money to a walking and cycling bridge in his electorate that he campaigned on, which the government cancelled. Bishop – the minister for housing and transport, and Hutt South MP – agreed in March ... <a title="PM backs minister’s ‘pragmatic’ call to spend Kāinga Ora money on local bridge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/pm-backs-ministers-pragmatic-call-to-spend-kainga-ora-money-on-local-bridge/" aria-label="Read more about PM backs minister’s ‘pragmatic’ call to spend Kāinga Ora money on local bridge">Read more</a>
