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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>
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March 17, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ Families with disabled children are facing reductions in support under new rules that include income from boarders in assessments for accommodation supplements or income-related rent in public housing. Before 2 March, only income from three or more boarders was included. Minister for Social Development Louise Upston said, when the change ... <a title="Support cut as boarder income changes take effect" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/support-cut-as-boarder-income-changes-take-effect/" aria-label="Read more about Support cut as boarder income changes take effect">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Abdulhassan Nabizadah. RNZ / Samuel Rillstone Police are again appealing for anyone who knows anything about the death of Abdulhassan Nabizadah to come forward. It’s been a year since the 63-year-old was assaulted, robbed and left critically injured on Camperdown Road in the Wellington suburb of Miramar. The offenders, who stole ... <a title="Abdulhassan Nabizadah: Police reappeal for information one year after homicide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/abdulhassan-nabizadah-police-reappeal-for-information-one-year-after-homicide/" aria-label="Read more about Abdulhassan Nabizadah: Police reappeal for information one year after homicide">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand New facial recognition technology is being worked on that could detect if someone is driving drunk with just a three second video (file image). 123RF New facial recognition technology is being worked on that could detect if someone is driving drunk with just a three second video. Researchers in Australia have ... <a title="A camera to tell if drivers are drunk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/a-camera-to-tell-if-drivers-are-drunk/" aria-label="Read more about A camera to tell if drivers are drunk">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Health NZ faces the “extreme risk” of not having enough of the workers it needs to push through the government’s order to decentralise rapidly. Unsplash / RNZ Papers show that Health New Zealand faces the “extreme risk” of not having enough of the workers it needs to push through the government’s ... <a title="Papers show ‘extreme risk’ around Health NZ decentralisation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/17/papers-show-extreme-risk-around-health-nz-decentralisation/" aria-label="Read more about Papers show ‘extreme risk’ around Health NZ decentralisation">Read more</a>
