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March 17, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Simon Kneebone has been appointed a Black Ferns assistant coach, focusing on set pieces. SUPPLIED The Black Ferns have a new assistant coach who will focus on their set piece. Simon Kneebone completes the coaching group, joining head coach Whitney Hansen, and assistants Tony Christie (attack) and Riki Flutey (defence). Christie ... <a title="Simon Kneebone joins Black Ferns coaching team" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/simon-kneebone-joins-black-ferns-coaching-team/" aria-label="Read more about Simon Kneebone joins Black Ferns coaching team">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Rebecca Wadey can’t imagine ever cutting her hair. The Auckland-based writer and former editor of online magazine Ensemble will turn 50 this year. Her hair, which she describes as “big, curly and coarse”, reaches well below her shoulders “to my elbows if I straighten it”. When she surfs, it blinds her; ... <a title="Have women quit cutting their hair short when they get older?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/have-women-quit-cutting-their-hair-short-when-they-get-older/" aria-label="Read more about Have women quit cutting their hair short when they get older?">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The Oscars red carpet is typically viewed as the apex of awards season dressing. What the stars wear to the Dolby Theater is the culmination of months of business negotiations between talent agencies, stylists and fashion houses, generating millions of views for brands and, when successful, can cement an actor’s relevancy ... <a title="At the Oscars after-party, the fashion was sexy, strange and sensual" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/at-the-oscars-after-party-the-fashion-was-sexy-strange-and-sensual/" aria-label="Read more about At the Oscars after-party, the fashion was sexy, strange and sensual">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The average price of a kilogram of beef mince was now $4.60 more than the same time in 2025. RNZ / Vinay Ranchhod Food prices were up 4.5 percent in the year to February, and mince has recorded the biggest annual increase since data began. Meat, poultry and fish led the ... <a title="Mince records biggest annual increase since data began" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/mince-records-biggest-annual-increase-since-data-began/" aria-label="Read more about Mince records biggest annual increase since data began">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The Education Review Office says it is introducing new, simpler reports about schools next month. It says from term two ERO reports will include a summary that gives families an at-a-glance understanding of the performance of their children’s school. The office says the new reports will have more focus on children’s ... <a title="Overhaul of ERO school reports announced" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/overhaul-of-ero-school-reports-announced/" aria-label="Read more about Overhaul of ERO school reports announced">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The Wattie’s factory in Christchurch. Nathan McKinnon / RNZ Wattie’s New Zealand’s proposal to stop producing frozen vegetables is expected to impact the country’s already-hurting vegetable growers and seed producers. The seed industry was taking stock of what last week’s announcement by one of the country’s largest food producers, would mean ... <a title="Wattie’s NZ’s proposed cuts ‘a really big blow’ to seed, arable growers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/watties-nzs-proposed-cuts-a-really-big-blow-to-seed-arable-growers/" aria-label="Read more about Wattie’s NZ’s proposed cuts ‘a really big blow’ to seed, arable growers">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand New Zealand and Samoa have vowed to do more to combat the flow of drugs through the Pacific, which prime minister Christopher Luxon says has become a “super highway”. Luxon and his Samoan counterpart La’aulialemalietoa Polataivao Leuatea Fosi Schmidt have signed memorandums of understanding for Police and Customs to work together ... <a title="NZ, Samoa vow to combat flow of drugs through Pacific ‘super highway’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/nz-samoa-vow-to-combat-flow-of-drugs-through-pacific-super-highway/" aria-label="Read more about NZ, Samoa vow to combat flow of drugs through Pacific ‘super highway’">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Police say they’re continuing to make enquiries. RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly A Tauranga school was put into lockdown this morning after reports of someone with a weapon. Police were called to Cameron Road at about 8.50am. “A nearby school was advised to be placed into a lockdown, however this has since ... <a title="Tauranga School went in lockdown after reports of an armed person" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/tauranga-school-went-in-lockdown-after-reports-of-an-armed-person/" aria-label="Read more about Tauranga School went in lockdown after reports of an armed person">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Residents of Blockhouse Bay in southwestern Auckland were dismayed to learn early last year that their local Woolworths supermarket was earmarked to close. While the Donovan Street store wasn’t the largest supermarket in the area, many living nearby treated it as an extension of their household refrigerators, popping down to the ... <a title="What one changing suburb tells us" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/what-one-changing-suburb-tells-us/" aria-label="Read more about What one changing suburb tells us">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Film star Sean Penn stepped out of a train carriage in central Kyiv on Monday, thousands of miles away from the glitz of Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre where he had failed to turn up to receive his third acting Oscar hours earlier. Penn, 65, won the Oscar for best supporting actor for ... <a title="Why Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn skipped the ceremony" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/why-oscar-winning-actor-sean-penn-skipped-the-ceremony/" aria-label="Read more about Why Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn skipped the ceremony">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Two people are being taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Supplied / St John Emergency services are at the scene of a four-vehicle crash in Palmerston North this morning. The crash was reported at about 8.25am at the intersection of Rangitikei Line and Flygers Line in Cloverlea, police said. Two ... <a title="Two people hospitalised after four-vehicle crash in Palmerston North" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/two-people-hospitalised-after-four-vehicle-crash-in-palmerston-north/" aria-label="Read more about Two people hospitalised after four-vehicle crash in Palmerston North">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Karangahape Road will be one of three new underground stations on the City Rail Link. Supplied: CRL A specialist police force will be needed to patrol deep below Auckland’s streets on the new City Rail Link, says a city councillor. Transport officers and Māori wardens currently patrol public transport, but do ... <a title="Are specialist police needed to patrol the CRL underground?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/are-specialist-police-needed-to-patrol-the-crl-underground/" aria-label="Read more about Are specialist police needed to patrol the CRL underground?">Read more</a>
