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Engagement about to open for major Wellington transport project

Source: New Zealand Transport Agency

Those wanting to know more about one of Wellington’s largest proposed infrastructure projects are about to get their chance.

Starting this weekend, and continuing to mid-December, NZTA/Waka Kotahi will hold public information days so that people can find out more about the proposed Road of National Significance (RoNS) State Highway 1 Wellington Improvements Project. 

Mount Victoria Tunnel visualisation

Kesh Keshaboina, Regional Manager System Design says six information days will be held from 23 November until 6 December.

“These events will give the public the chance to look at our early design work and imagery of the proposed project. Our transport experts will also be available to answer questions and take public feedback.”

Mr Keshaboina says for those who cannot attend, updated project information will be published on the NZTA/Waka Kotahi website from Monday 17 November, and an online survey will be available for people to provide their feedback. 

“These are significant proposals, and they have the potential to have a major impact on Wellington’s transport infrastructure.”

“The engagement we are planning is a great chance for people to have a good look at what is being proposed, and to have their say before plans and designs are further developed,” Mr Keshaboina says.

The project includes a second Terrace Tunnel, a second Mount Victoria Tunnel and roading upgrades at the Basin Reserve as well as improvements on the remaining state highway corridor through central Wellington, Hataitai, and Kilbirnie.

The public information days are just a part of ongoing engagement NZTA/Waka Kotahi has underway. Extensive engagement continues with Councils, iwi, landowners, and other key stakeholders.

The online survey will be available to the public from 17 November and will close on December 14. Feedback will be taken into consideration during the next design phase of the project.

Information days schedule

  • Sunday, 23 November (8 am – 12 pm) – Harbourside Markets, Wellington.
  • Wednesday, 26 November (3 pm –  7pm) – St Joseph’s Church Hall, Mt Victoria.
  • Saturday, 29 November (9 am – 1 pm) – Toitū Pōneke, Kilbirnie.
  • Monday, 1 December, (1 pm – 5 pm) – Thistle Hall, Te Aro.
  • Wednesday, 3 December (3 pm – 7 pm) – All Saints Church Hall, Hataitai.
  • Saturday, 6 December (2 pm – 5 pm) – Mt Cook School Gym, Mt Cook.

More information

Full project information as well as details about the information days and feedback survey can be found on the NZTA/Waka Kotahi website:

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‘Loss beyond measure’: Three children killed in Sanson house fire identified

Source: Radio New Zealand

August, Hugo, and Goldie died in a house fire in Sanson on Saturday. GIVEALITTLE / SUPPLIED

The three children killed in a Sanson house fire have been identified on a page set up by the loved ones of their mother.

The children have been named as August, Hugo and Goldie, aged 7, 5 and 1.

The Givealittle page has since raised more than $136,000 for their mother as she dealt with the “unimaginable loss”.

“They were the light and love of her life, and her entire world has been shattered,” the Givealittle page said.

“In the midst of this unimaginable grief, she also lost her home and everything she owned. She is facing the hardest journey possible, stripped of her physical security, while navigating the deepest emotional pain.”

The search for the body of one of the children is still ongoing, police said.

The bodies of two children were recovered on Sunday night and were blessed by the family with karakia.

The body of the adult was removed earlier. Manawatu Area Commander Inspector Ross Grantham confirmed to Morning Report it was the children’s father, which RNZ understood was Dean Field.

Outside the scene of a fatal house fire in Sanson, November 2025. Mark Papalii / RNZ

Police had put up emergency tape roping off the entrance to the property. Down the driveway was a police car, and a police branded truck was visible. A couple of flowers look to have been placed near the front of the driveway.

Police said their focus now would be on finding the third child’s body.

“It’s unimaginable, the tragedy for the families going through this,” Grantham told Morning Report. “We are working very carefully through the scene to establish how it started, and that’s still going to take us some time.”

He said it was too early to tell yet if the fire was deliberately started.

“It’s pretty risky with the part of the structure still there and the the dust that’s generated from the fire, so it will take us some time just to go through and establish what’s happened.”

Grantham said police were not seeking information from the public at this stage, but if anyone knew anything, they could “reach out”.

He said it was “unusual” for a house fire to begin in the afternoon.

Outside the scene of a fatal house fire in Sanson, November 2025. Mark Papalii / RNZ

Neighbour describes seeing the fire as it happened

A neighbour told RNZ he was working at his home on Saturday, when someone noticed smoke from the nearby property.

“We all came out to have a look and we saw a horrific amount of smoke coming from about 300 metres away, where the neighbour’s house is – pretty thick black billowing smoke.

“It was a very, very windy day and we knew it wasn’t any kind of controlled fire. We knew it was some sort of what we considered to be a house fire at that stage.”

He said, over an hour, many firefighters turned up, attempting to put the blaze out.

An hour after it started, the blaze and billowing smoke was still visible. He believed it took two hours for firefighters to put the fire out.

“They were still dousing it down and there was just very slight wisps of smoke coming from the property two hours after it started.”

He said State Highway One near the property did not open until 8pm Saturday.

The neighbour said that, during the fire, he was “pretty shocked” at what was happening before his eyes.

“Nothing we could do about it and just a feeling of kind of despair, I guess just watching what was going on.

“Knowing that a young family was potentially losing everything they owned and knowing that is going to be a very, very hard place to come back from.

“Just the thought of not knowing whether everybody was alright or not, and subsequent to that we found out, that isn’t the case, which has made things 10 times worse.”

Police are not looking for anyone else in relation to the fire.

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Two antibiotic-resistant superbugs found at Christchurch Hospital

Source: Radio New Zealand

Christchurch Hospital. RNZ / Nate McKinnon

Health NZ has confirmed two separate outbreaks of superbugs at Christchurch Hospital.

Two different strains of antibiotic antibiotic-resistant enterococci have been identified on one ward.

Health NZ Canterbury and West Coast nursing director Dr Sarah Berger said there were “fewer than 10 patients” with the infection, which was more difficult to treat because it did not respond to many medicines and was resistant to vancomycin.

Vancomycin was an antibiotic used for potentially life-threatening infections which could not be treated with another effective, less toxic antimicrobial drug, including severe staphylococcus infections.

“Most” of the patients were carriers rather than having active infections, Berger said.

Deep ward cleans, use of personal protective equipment and other infection prevention measures were in place.

“Anti-microbial resistance (AMR) is a global problem, sometimes called the ‘silent pandemic’, and unfortunately has reached New Zealand’s shores.

“AMR occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change over time and no longer respond to many medicines, making infections harder to treat. As a result of drug resistance, antibiotics and other antimicrobial medicines become less effective and infections become increasingly difficult to treat.”

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Spring finally here for housing market, REINZ says

Source: Radio New Zealand

RNZ / Marika Khabazi

Spring came late for the housing market but it arrived last month, the Real Estate Institute says.

It has released its latest data that show the number of sales across the country was up 6.4 percent year-on-year in the month, at 7505.

Gisborne had 70 percent more sales, at 63, the West Coast was up almost 52 percent, to 44 and Taranaki up 26 percent to 184.

The national median Days to Sell decreased by one day to 41 days.

For New Zealand, excluding Auckland, it decreased by two days to 41 days.

The largest reduction in median Days to Sell was observed in Southland, down 13 days from 44 to 31. The greatest year-on-year increase in median Days to Sell was on the West Coast, rising 23 days from 24 to 47 days.

Institute chief executive Lizzy Ryley said even when the figures were seasonally adjusted, activity had picked up more than normal.

“I think at the moment what we are seeing is good weather suddenly appearing made it feel like it was spring.

“The weather just suddenly went form being winter because October was so much better than September.

“Seasonally we were expecting to see something in September which we’ve seen in October. Talking around the country to everybody it feels like it just switched overnight … if the market doesn’t move in October and November when will it move? And it’s moving.”

New Zealand’s median price decreased by 1.1 percent year-on-year, to $786,000. Excluding Auckland, the median price increased by 0.6 percent year-on-year to $710,000. The house price index, which smooths out variation in the median sale price caused by the types of properties selling was up 0.3 percent year-on-year.

Auckland’s median price lifted over $1 million for the first time since March. West Coast and Queenstown Lakes also hit new records.

“It really shows that demand isn’t just holding up, but actually lifting, especially in premium and regional areas,” Ryley said.

Shed said Auckland seemed to be showing more confidence.

“You’ve got people starting to lose that fear of paying too much. They’re starting to go ‘ok it’s safe for me to do something’. There’s also probably a sense of house prices have dropped quite significantly over the last few years…. Now they are stabilising, just moving gently up a bit and people go ‘ok, it’s a good time’.

“I suspect people do feel like it’s likely they’ll stay flattish or level but there is always that feeling that with the OCR impact they could move up … there’s going to be potentially an opportunity.”

New listings continue to rise around the country, up 5.5 percent year-on-year to 12,209. New Zealand, excluding Auckland, also recorded an increase, up 4.2 percent year-on-year to 7783. Inventory levels have returned to over 33,000, up 3.9 percent nationally year-on-year to 33,588.

“First-home buyers continue to be a dominant group across the country, taking advantage of lower interest rates and a stabilised market in terms of price, closely followed by owner-occupiers,” Ryley said.

“Salespeople are telling us that the warmer weather, lower interest rates, and easing lending criteria have brought more people back into the market and boosted activity in many regions, which we can see from the data.”

She said people were optimistic without being too excited. “The cost of living is so high still.”

ANZ economists said prices seemed likely to finish the year at about their forecast for 0.5 percent to 1 percent year-on-year growth.

“However, sales volumes were stronger, rising 4.2 percent month-on-month to be above their historical average, indicating some resilience in demand. Days to sell were steady around their past year’s average. Overall, there hasn’t been any decisive charge in the direction of the market this month, though higher sales volumes provide some tentative evidence of stronger demand.”

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Woman charged with muder following death of man in Northland’s Kaitaia

Source: Radio New Zealand

RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly

A 57-year-old woman has been charged with murder following the death of a man in Kaitaia.

Emergency services were called to an Okahu Road address shortly after midday on Sunday following a report of assault.

The man was found critically injured but despite efforts by emergency services, he died at the scene.

Acting Detective Inspector Tania Jellyman said police arrested the woman at a different address on Sunday afternoon and later charged her with murder.

“Police are not seeking anyone else in relation to this matter,” Jellyman said in a statement.

“A scene examination is continuing and a post mortem examination will be carried out in the coming days.

“Police will look to release more details about the man after these processes have been completed.”

The woman was expected to appear in Kaitaia District Court later today.

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Feedback sought on longer-term protection for northern hoiho

Source: New Zealand Government

Feedback is being sought on new proposals to reduce risk from commercial fishing to hoiho (yellow eyed penguins), Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says.

“In September, I put in place an emergency three-month closure to commercial set-net fishing around Otago Peninsula and directed officials to develop proposals for longer-term measures to reduce the impacts of set-net fishing on hoiho.

“It’s clear from the new scientific risk assessment that the northern population of hoiho, those found on the South Island and Stewart Island, face a range of threats including malnutrition, predators on land and at sea, fisheries bycatch and disease. 

“The recovery of the northern hoiho population depends on reductions of mortality from all these causes. The options included in this consultation focus on ways to reduce the risk from fishing and are informed by the most up to date scientific information.” 

The proposed protection measures include making the emergency set-net closure around Otago Peninsula a long-term closed area, prohibiting set-netting to around eight nautical miles between Karitāne and Hampden, and setting a Fishing-Related Mortality Limit supported by an escalating response framework to reduce bycatch risk outside of the closed areas.

“I share the concerns of many New Zealanders about the future of hoiho and, following the public consultation, will carefully consider what long-term protection measures may be necessary and appropriate to reduce the risk to northern hoiho from fishing,” Mr Jones says.

“I’m also mindful of the potential impact these proposals, if implemented, would have on commercial fishers in the area. They work hard to provide for their families, create jobs, and put food on our plates, as well as making an important contribution to New Zealand’s seafood exports. 

“I encourage everyone to read the proposals and provide feedback. It’s important I hear from people across a wide range of interests including commercial, recreational and customary fishers, tangata whenua, environmental groups and the local community.”

Consultation on the proposals starts today, and people can make a submission until 5pm on 12 December 2025.

More information, including how to make a submission, can be found on MPI’s website https://www.mpi.govt.nz/consultations/further-measures-to-reduce-fisheries-bycatch-of-hoiho-yellow-eyed-penguin.

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Hornet incursion: No plans to spray invaders – yet

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 found over the weekend, meaning 10 queens and two worker hornets have been located in the Auckland suburbs of Glenfield and Birkdale in the last month.

North Commissioner Mike Inglis said they had a clear plan.

“At this stage, the advice is not to spray both in terms of the efficacy of the spray and also the potential impacts in the wider community.

“We’ve got independent scientific experts from companies that have successfully managed these incursions as well as our own internal expertise.

“With the nests and particularly the workers, that’s part of the plan and expecting that over the next four weeks to 12 weeks. So again, that’s why we’ve put more staff on the ground.”

Inglis said they have also responded by increasing the amount of carbohydrate and protein bait traps to more than 200.

He said they were going to extend the trapping out to five kilometres from where the concentration of hornets had been found, and that more expert help was on the way.

“We’ve got a specialist coming across from the UK as well as introducing potentially tracking technology, and that tracks the hornets back to their nest. So that’s the next stage that we’re continuing to work through.”

“We’ve got sufficient staff in that area. We’ve ramped up over the last week and we’re getting support from our industry partners, regional councils, Department of Conservation to make sure that we continue to stay on top of this.”

“Our intent is to eradicate this hornet. We’re in a good space based on the technical advice, but we’ve got to keep pushing on and that’s what we’ll continue to do.”

The difference between hornets and wasps. Supplied

Inglis continued to praise the public’s help, saying they had received nearly 3000 notifications from Aucklanders.

He said he was confident the predatory insects, which hunt honeybees, remained confined to Glenfield and Birkdale.

“We’re still focused on that area, and through our ramped up efforts last week, that’s where we found the further two nests.”

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Further measures to reduce fisheries bycatch of hoiho (yellow-eyed penguin)

Source: NZ Ministry for Primary Industries

Have your say

Following on from the emergency closure of commercial fishing around the Otago Peninsula announced on 16 September 2025, we are consulting on further measures to reduce hoiho fishing-related deaths.

The proposed measures are informed by a new scientific risk assessment. That assessment identified set netting in the Otago area as posing the highest fisheries bycatch risk to hoiho on the South Island (Te Waipounamu) and Stewart Island (Rakiura) – known collectively as the northern population.

The consultation opened on 17 November and will close at 5pm on Friday 12 December 2025.

Find out about the emergency closure announced on 16 September

What measures are being proposed?

Option 1a: Extending the existing prohibition of commercial set net fishing around Otago Peninsula from 4 to approximately 8 nautical miles between Karitāne and Taieri Mouth.

Option 1b: The commercial set net prohibition around Otago Peninsula (Option 1a) would be extended to also include the area from Karitāne to Hampden (North Otago) out to 8 nautical miles.

Fisheries New Zealand modelling estimates that these set net prohibitions reduce the bycatch risk for the entire northern population by around 75%. The options do not impact recreational or customary fishing (recreational and customary set netting is already prohibited out to four nautical miles. In addition, recreational and customary fishers are not known to typically use set nets beyond this distance offshore).  

Option 2: Implementing an escalating response framework of voluntary and, if required, regulatory measures that would apply outside of the proposed commercial set net prohibition areas to further drive a reduction in hoiho bycatch across the entire northern population. It would be underpinned by a regulated Fishing-Related Mortality Limit (FRML) for the northern hoiho population under section 15 of the Fisheries Act 1996. The FRML would be applied each October fishing year (1 October to 30 September) and is proposed to be set at 4 hoiho captures.

Fisheries Act 1996 – NZ Legislation

The reasons for these proposals

The recently completed spatial multi-threat risk assessment projects that without a 50% reduction in all sources of adult and juvenile mortality, the northern population of this species may number only approximately 160 birds by 2045. According to the risk assessment, the third largest cause of hoiho mortality in recent years is estimated to be commercial set net fishing (behind malnutrition and predation from both marine and terrestrial predators).

Consultation documents

Consultation on further measures to reduce fisheries bycatch of hoiho/yellow-eyed penguin [PDF, 7.3 MB]

Spatial risk assessment of threats to yellow-eyed penguin/hoiho (Megadyptes antipodes) [PDF, 12 MB]

Map of the area

Proposed extension of Otago Peninsula set net prohibition (Option 1a) [PDF, 168 KB]

Proposed extension of Otago Peninsula and North Otago 2 set net prohibition (Option 1b) [PDF, 179 KB]

Making your submission

Submissions on these proposals close at 5pm on Friday 12 December 2025.

If you are emailing or posting your submission, we encourage you to use our submission template [DOCX, 51 KB]

Submissions should be emailed to FMSubmissions@mpi.govt.nz

You can also use that email address to request hard copies of documents.

We prefer submissions or hard copy document requests to be sent by email. However, written submissions or requests for hard copies of documents can be posted to:

Hoiho protection measures consultation
Fisheries Management
Fisheries New Zealand
PO Box 2526
Wellington 6140.

What to include in your submission

  • The title of the consultation document.
  • Your name and title.
  • Your organisation’s name (if you are submitting on behalf of an organisation, and whether your submission represents the whole organisation or a section of it).
  • Your contact details (such as phone number, address, and email). 
  • Whether you support all or any of the proposed long-term measures for reducing fishing-related hoiho mortalities.
  • Any alternative measures that we could consider.

Answers to common questions

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Submissions are public information

Note that all, part, or a summary of your submission may be published on this website. Most often this happens when we issue a document that reviews the submissions received.

People can also ask for copies of submissions under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA). The OIA says we must make the content of submissions available unless we have good reason for withholding it. Those reasons are detailed in sections 6 and 9 of the OIA.

If you think there are grounds to withhold specific information from publication, make this clear in your submission or contact us. Reasons may include that it discloses commercially sensitive or personal information. However, any decision MPI makes to withhold details can be reviewed by the Ombudsman, who may direct us to release it.

Official Information Act 1982 – NZ Legislation

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High electricity connection costs a barrier for development – Electricity Authority

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 manager of networks and system change, Tim Sparks, said high connection fees could affect new housing and commercial developments, EV charging stations and other critical infrastructure.

“Reducing very high up-front charges would help enable and encourage efficient development. Not only is this good for the economy, it means the network costs would be shared among more people on the network.”

He said there were excessively high connection costs in some parts of the country.

“Data indicates a small number of lines companies have been requiring newly connecting customers to pay more than their share,” Sparks said.

He said any controls would be targeted and most of the 29 lines companies and their customers would not be affected.

“This proposal could mean the few lines companies that would be affected respond by increasing their lines charges for existing customers on their network.”

Sparks said any increase would be likely be small, for example in Auckland existing households might initially face an increase of between 22 cents and 66 cents a month.

The regulator is asking for feedback on the proposal along with a move to introduce obligations for when lines companies must offer and maintain connections to their networks.

“We think there should be some obligations for when lines companies must supply electricity. This would provide greater clarity from the outset about lines companies’ obligations for connections.”

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Crackdown on underhand business practice

Source: New Zealand Government

The Government is ratcheting up penalties for misleading advertising and other breaches of fair trading law to deter underhand business practice.

“Once the changes take effect, serious offenders will be liable for fines of up to tens of millions of dollars if they have gained significant amounts from breaching the law,” Economic Growth Minister Nicola Willis says.

“Legislation to be introduced to Parliament early next year will increase the maximum penalty for breaches of the Fair Trading Act from $600,000 to the highest of three times the value of the commercial gain, the value of the transactions, or $5 million.

“Presently, there are circumstances in which the gains to be made from breaching the Act can outweigh the penalties for breaching it. The new regime will eliminate the financial incentives for breaching the Act.

“The increase follows an almost 23 per cent rise in the number of fair trading complaints made to the Commerce Commission over the past five years.

“It also comes after a Consumer NZ campaign led to two Pak’nSave supermarkets pleading guilty this year to 18 charges of misleading pricing and Woolworths being charged with 14 breaches of the Act.”

Nicola Willis says the increased penalties will bring New Zealand more into line with comparable jurisdictions overseas. 

“In Australia, the maximum financial penalty for breaches of fair trading laws is $A50 million, three times the benefit obtained or 30 per cent of turnover.

“The changes will mean New Zealand consumers can have more confidence that they are being treated fairly by the businesses they buy from.

“They will also help to ensure businesses who play by the rules are not disadvantaged by competitors using unfair means to woo their customers away from them. The existing rules do little to prevent large retailers from further entrenching their market dominance.

“The changes do not mean all breaches of the Act will incur higher penalties. The courts will continue to have discretion to consider a range of factors. These include the nature of the conduct, whether the party has breached the Act before, the size and scale of the party and the breach it made.”

Nicola Willis says that, following consultation with business and other groups, the Government has decided not to proceed, at this time, with proposals to stop directors taking out insurance or indemnifying themselves from penalties under the Act.

“We have also opted not to progress proposals to expand infringement fees and unfair contract terms provisions.”

Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Scott Simpson says the changes to the Act will ensure greater protection for consumers.

“While the vast majority of businesses are law abiding, the current penalties and legal thresholds make it too difficult to hold repeat offenders to account.

“Between July 2020 and July 2025, the Commerce Commission received more than 48,000 complaints about fair trading issues such as misleading advertising, inaccurate pricing, refund refusals, and subscription traps,” Scott Simpson says.

“In some cases, the same businesses have breached the law more than once. These changes will ensure the law provides stronger incentives to comply and stronger consequences for those who don’t.”

The reforms will introduce a new civil penalties regime for most breaches of the Act, allowing the Commerce Commission to take action on the balance of probabilities, rather than meeting the higher criminal standard of proof. Serious or deliberate offences will remain criminal.

“These reforms will build a fairer and more confident marketplace for both consumers and responsible businesses.”

The changes are expected to become law later next year following public consultation through the select committee process.

Note to editors:

  • Penalties for breaching most provisions, including misleading and deceptive conduct, will increase from a maximum of $200,000 for individuals and $600,000 for body corporates to the greater of:
    • $1 million for individuals or $5 million for body corporates; or
    • Three times the value of the commercial gain made or loss avoided; or
    • The value of the consideration for the transaction(s) that constituted the contravention.
  • Maximum penalties for breaching management bans will increase from $60,000 to $200,000.
  • Maximum penalties for other conduct like breaching consumer information requirements, consumer transaction rules, and impeding enforcement will increase from $10,000 to $60,000 for individuals and from $30,000 to $200,000 for body corporates.
  • Most breaches will move from a criminal liability regime to a civil liability regime. Conduct that is serious or deliberate will remain criminal offences – such as demanding payment without intending to supply, serious product safety breaches, or obstructing the Commerce Commission. 

Attached:

  • Worked examples of how the new penalties will work in practice.