Midday Edition: 14 September 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 14 September 2025, straight from the Newstalk ZB newsroom - bringing you everything you need to know in news, politics, business, entertainment and sport.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the News Talks Heavy Newsroom. This is Newsfvex. In
this update, emergency services have closed Hanson's Line in Palmerston
North due to a serious crash. Police were called about
nine am to a single vehicle crash on Newbury Munuwa II.
The road is closed between te Atracuda Road and Langatique Line.

(00:25):
Motorists are advised to avoid the area. A push for
the government to take food safety seriously, a Salvation Army
report shows more than a quarter of Kiwi households with
children are regularly missing out on sufficient nutritious food. Despite this,
it reveals New Zealand's exporting enough overseas to feed forty

(00:48):
million people. Salvation Army Food Security Manager Sonya Cameron says
we need a strategy as we're lagging behind other countries ative.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
National food strategy the happening in places like Ralia, Canada, UK.
We are being the outlier here.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
One Dunedin resident has woken up ten million dollars richer
after winning. There must be one powerball jackpot. Five players
share Division one's million, and they must be one. Powerball
was to keep the rest of this month's jackpots smaller.
Lachlan Rennie explains lot.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Of in Z. Chief executive Jason Delamor says having smaller
Jackpot will make the incoming upgrade for the online platform
and in store terminals much easier. He says the changes
include new terminals, a range of new instant Qiwi online games,
and changes to mandatory spending limits. Dulamor says the changes
will be in place by the end of the month.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Overseas and around two hundred and fifty thousand people are
reported to a fled gaza following Israel's intensified bombardment of
the area. Israeli forces have stepped up their assault with
heavier air strikes targeting apartment blocks and large concrete structures.
Forces say they destroyed a high rise building that was

(02:03):
used to advance and execute attacks against its troops. That's news.
In sport, this won't be the Warriors season after all.
Bundled out of the NRL playoffs by Penrith after a
twenty four to eight loss at Mount Smart, poor execution
was the ones undoing, but coach Andrew Webster says there's

(02:25):
still a lot to like about their season.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
A lot of young goes through.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
I feel like our SCENI players a non terrific job
fill out with handle adversity.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Which they really tight as a group like this group.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Is so well connected. Denmark's Jonas Vningergard is on the
verge of claiming a maiden velter Cycle Classic in Spain.
An eleven second win on the penultimate stage has given
the twenty eight year old at seventy six second cushion
heading into tomorrow's final stage to Madrid, and coach Scott

(02:59):
Robertson concedes the All Blacks were woefully out played in
a forty three ten crushing at the hands of South
Africa in Wellington. For more news, listen to News Talk
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