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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand A hornets’ nest. Supplied Spraying to eradicate the yellow legged hornet is not currently in Biosecurity New Zealand’s plans. Biosecurity New Zealand North Commissioner Mike Inglis told Morning Report international and domestic experts continue to advise they target the use of traps. More of the invasive pests and their nests were ... <a title="Hornet incursion: No plans to spray invaders – yet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/hornet-incursion-no-plans-to-spray-invaders-yet/" aria-label="Read more about Hornet incursion: No plans to spray invaders – yet">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand 123RF The electricity sector regulator wants to be able to intervene to control prices for connecting to electricity networks. The Electricity Authority said some lines companies were charging high up-front costs for connections, which can be a barrier to development, slow down electrification and leave consumers worse off. The authority’s general ... <a title="High electricity connection costs a barrier for development – Electricity Authority" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/high-electricity-connection-costs-a-barrier-for-development-electricity-authority/" aria-label="Read more about High electricity connection costs a barrier for development – Electricity Authority">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand A teenager with type 1 diabetes uses a CGM – a continuous glucose monitoring device. Amelie Benoist / BSIP via AFP A specialist in treating childhood diabetes says that some children are born “almost what we call ‘programmed’” to have the disease – but new medicine could help put them in ... <a title="How Kiwi kids are becoming the new face of ‘adult’ diabetes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/how-kiwi-kids-are-becoming-the-new-face-of-adult-diabetes/" aria-label="Read more about How Kiwi kids are becoming the new face of ‘adult’ diabetes">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The aftermath of a scooter accident in central Auckland, November 2025. Dan Lake / RNZ A person has been taken to hospital in a serious condition from an e-scooter crash in Auckland’s CBD. It happened at the intersection of Cook and Nelson Streets just after 5.15am Monday. Police, St John and ... <a title="Crash puts e-scooter rider in hospital" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/crash-puts-e-scooter-rider-in-hospital/" aria-label="Read more about Crash puts e-scooter rider in hospital">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand A person was found deceased at an Atkinson Avenue Ōtāhuhu property. 123RF A person has been found dead at an Ōtāhuhu property and police are treating it unexplained. Emergency services were called to Atkinson Avenue at 1.50am after a person was found deceased. Cordons were in place along a section of ... <a title="Death in Ōtāhuhu treated as unexplained" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/death-in-otahuhu-treated-as-unexplained/" aria-label="Read more about Death in Ōtāhuhu treated as unexplained">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand A retiree though he was signing up to an online platform for trading crypto but he was actually being scammed out of $250,000. 123RF New Zealanders are losing six-figure sums to scammers pretending to offer anything from jobs to cryptocurrency investments and technology support. Financial Services Complaints Ltd, an external dispute ... <a title="Scammers using ‘extremely sophisticated methods’, one retiree lost $250,000" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/scammers-using-extremely-sophisticated-methods-one-retiree-lost-250000/" aria-label="Read more about Scammers using ‘extremely sophisticated methods’, one retiree lost $250,000">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 Some schools in Canterbury have closed for asbestos testing because a brand of play sand they had been using has been found to contain asbestos. On Saturday, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment said four products sold by ... <a title="More types of play sand test positive for asbestos" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/more-types-of-play-sand-test-positive-for-asbestos/" aria-label="Read more about More types of play sand test positive for asbestos">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Jung Sup Lee and his Ha-il Lee, pictured when he was 4, died in a double-fatal house fire in Auckland last month. Supplied Six weeks after a father and son were murdered in a house fire, the family have spoken for the first time about what happened that night, revealing the ... <a title="‘He’s our hero’: Father killed in Auckland double-fatal house fire died while trying to save his son" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/hes-our-hero-father-killed-in-auckland-double-fatal-house-fire-died-while-trying-to-save-his-son/" aria-label="Read more about ‘He’s our hero’: Father killed in Auckland double-fatal house fire died while trying to save his son">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand High court judge Anne Hinton wants privacy but her family seeks a public hearing. ikiryo/123RF Lawyers for a high court judge say her family’s dispute over a bach should be dealt with in private arbitration rather than public court, in part because of her judicial position. Some of her family members ... <a title="‘Private rather than public resolution’ High court judge wants family dispute dealt with in arbitration" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/private-rather-than-public-resolution-high-court-judge-wants-family-dispute-dealt-with-in-arbitration/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Private rather than public resolution’ High court judge wants family dispute dealt with in arbitration">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Police at the scene in Hillary Street in the Dunedin suburb of Liberton in January 2024. RNZ / Tess Brunton The trial of the man accused of murdering a newly-married migrant in Dunedin starts on Monday. The body of 27-year-old Gurjit Singh was found at his home in Liberton with stab ... <a title="Gurjit Singh murder trial begins in Dunedin" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/gurjit-singh-murder-trial-begins-in-dunedin/" aria-label="Read more about Gurjit Singh murder trial begins in Dunedin">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand New Zealand’s Daniel Hillier plays a during the DP World Tour Championship 2025 at Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai, November 2025. GIUSEPPE CACACE Wellington golfer Daniel Hillier has failed to gain his PGA Tour card in the final event on the World Tour. Hillier was hoping to join Ryan Fox on ... <a title="Golf: Daniel Hillier misses place on PGA Tour" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/golf-daniel-hillier-misses-place-on-pga-tour/" aria-label="Read more about Golf: Daniel Hillier misses place on PGA Tour">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Police stand guard outside the fatal house fire. RNZ/Mark Papalii The search for the body of a third child caught in a deadly house fire in Sanson is to resume this morning. Four people died in the fire on Saturday afternoon. The bodies of two children were recovered on Sunday night ... <a title="Search for body of third child after deadly Sanson fire" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/search-for-body-of-third-child-after-deadly-sanson-fire/" aria-label="Read more about Search for body of third child after deadly Sanson fire">Read more</a>
