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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Takapuna Beach on Auckland’s North Shore. A man has died at a popular Auckland beach. Police were alerted at midday on Monday that a person was unresponsive in the water and had been pulled onto Takapuna Beach. Officers gave medical help but he could not be revived. The death will be ... <a title="Man dies after being pulled unresponsive from water at Takapuna Beach" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/man-dies-after-being-pulled-unresponsive-from-water-at-takapuna-beach/" aria-label="Read more about Man dies after being pulled unresponsive from water at Takapuna Beach">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Mt Eden Corrections Facility (file image). RNZ/Calvin Samuel A man on the run for more than a week has been found and charged with escaping custody. The 42-year-old Mt Eden remand prisoner, who was in handcuffs, got free during a hospital escort on 7 November. He has now been arrested and ... <a title="Remand prisoner found after more than a week on the run" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/remand-prisoner-found-after-more-than-a-week-on-the-run/" aria-label="Read more about Remand prisoner found after more than a week on the run">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Damage to Orewa’s Shoreward Gastrobar in September. Supplied Four businesses have been ram-raided or fire-damaged in a small seaside village north of Auckland in the past three months, but police say so far no arrests have been made. Officers launched Operation Governor after a deliberately lit fire at Orewa’s Sunflour Cafe ... <a title="No arrests after businesses damaged in seaside village of Orewa" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/no-arrests-after-businesses-damaged-in-seaside-village-of-orewa/" aria-label="Read more about No arrests after businesses damaged in seaside village of Orewa">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Rajinder is on trial at the High Court at Dunedin. RNZ / Nate McKinnon A man is accused of stabbing a former employee more than 40 times in what appears to be an attempted decapitation, a court has heard. The 35-year-old man accused of the murder, who is listed in court ... <a title="‘Attempted decapitation’: Man on trial for murder of former employee" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/attempted-decapitation-man-on-trial-for-murder-of-former-employee/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Attempted decapitation’: Man on trial for murder of former employee">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand August, Hugo, and Goldie died in a house fire in Sanson on Saturday. GIVEALITTLE / SUPPLIED Warning: This story discusses suicide. The deaths of the three children and their father after a fire are being investigated as a murder suicide, RNZ understands. The three children killed in a Sanson house fire ... <a title="Death of three children and father after Sanson fire being treated as murder-suicide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/death-of-three-children-and-father-after-sanson-fire-being-treated-as-murder-suicide/" aria-label="Read more about Death of three children and father after Sanson fire being treated as murder-suicide">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Police are trying to locate the man and woman involved in the alleged assault. RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly A man has suffered a fractured eye socket and broken nose after being assaulted in Southland at the weekend. Police said the man was lured from his Edendale home late on Saturday. “At ... <a title="Man suffers fractured eye socket, broken nose after offering help to woman" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/man-suffers-fractured-eye-socket-broken-nose-after-offering-help-to-woman/" aria-label="Read more about Man suffers fractured eye socket, broken nose after offering help to woman">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Dr Gary Payinda. Supplied A high-profile emergency doctor has been selected to stand for the Labour Party against the incumbent Whāngarei MP, former Health Minister Dr Shane Reti. Dr Gary Payinda said he felt compelled to do something about what he saw as the government’s ongoing attack on essential public services. ... <a title="Labour selects Dr Gary Payinda to take on former Health Minister Dr Shane Reti" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/labour-selects-dr-gary-payinda-to-take-on-former-health-minister-dr-shane-reti/" aria-label="Read more about Labour selects Dr Gary Payinda to take on former Health Minister Dr Shane Reti">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand One of the affected play sand brands. Supplied / Product Safety NZ Early Childhood centres are concerned about the cost to remove and dispose of potentially asbestos contaminated products after asbestos was found in a range of coloured play sand. Some schools and childhood centres have closed after a significant recall ... <a title="Schools close as more types of play sand test positive for asbestos" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/schools-close-as-more-types-of-play-sand-test-positive-for-asbestos/" aria-label="Read more about Schools close as more types of play sand test positive for asbestos">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand More than half of all students at Francis Douglas Memorial College in New Plymouth take a primary industries subject. Supplied/Francis Douglas Memorial College A Taranaki high school is training the next generation of primary industry workers. Nearly half of the 800 students at Francis Douglas Memorial College in New Plymouth take ... <a title="Growing future farmers: Taranaki students run their own farm" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/growing-future-farmers-taranaki-students-run-their-own-farm/" aria-label="Read more about Growing future farmers: Taranaki students run their own farm">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Daryl Mitchell, after scoring a century in the opening ODI against the West Indies in Christchurch, November 2025. © Photosport Ltd 2025 www.photosport.nz Black Caps batter Daryl Mitchell is set to miss at least the second ODI against the West Indies as he has a scan on a groin injury. Mitchell ... <a title="Cricket: Key Black Cap Daryl Mitchell remains injury concern for rest of Windies series" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/cricket-key-black-cap-daryl-mitchell-remains-injury-concern-for-rest-of-windies-series/" aria-label="Read more about Cricket: Key Black Cap Daryl Mitchell remains injury concern for rest of Windies series">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Green Party-co-leader Marama Davidson. RNZ / Samuel Rillstone The Green Party is pledging to revoke consents for any coal, hardrock gold, or seabed mining projects granted under the fast-track regime, if it forms part of a government at the next election. “Today, we are putting the Seabed mining, hardrock gold mining ... <a title="Greens pledge to revoke fast-track consents for coal, hard-rock gold, seabed mining projects" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/greens-pledge-to-revoke-fast-track-consents-for-coal-hard-rock-gold-seabed-mining-projects/" aria-label="Read more about Greens pledge to revoke fast-track consents for coal, hard-rock gold, seabed mining projects">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Artist’s visualisation of a second Mt Victoria Tunnel in Wellington. NZTA / Waka Kotahi Plans for two new tunnels for Wellington’s State highway 1 have been revealed with a total cost of up to $4 billion and significant reworking of the surrounding areas. The Transport Agency’s proposal includes second tunnels created ... <a title="Plans for new Wellington tunnel through Mt Victoria unveiled" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/plans-for-new-wellington-tunnel-through-mt-victoria-unveiled/" aria-label="Read more about Plans for new Wellington tunnel through Mt Victoria unveiled">Read more</a>
