{"id":349387,"date":"2026-03-26T20:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/349387\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T20:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:50:08","slug":"news-in-90-seconds-march-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/349387\/","title":{"rendered":"News in 90 Seconds March 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The morning&#8217;s headlines in 90 seconds, including evacuations amid Northland flooding, the Olympics makes a ruling on trans athletes, and Christchurch\u2019s new stadium opens. <\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/03\/26\/live-homes-without-power-as-heavy-rain-lashes-upper-north-island\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">people were evacuated from their homes<\/a> amid flooding in Kait\u0101ia. <\/p>\n<p>Metservice says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/03\/27\/daniel-corbett-whats-going-on-with-the-weather-good-question\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">another storm is heading for the country<\/a> early next week. <\/p>\n<p>Energy officials released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/03\/26\/govt-releases-unscheduled-fuel-update-after-diesel-concerns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">new details about our fuel stocks<\/a>, amid fears our stocks were being depleted too quickly. <\/p>\n<p>The International Olympic Committee has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/03\/27\/transgender-women-athletes-banned-from-female-olympic-events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">banned trans women from competing in female categories<\/a> at the games. <\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Christchurch&#8217;s new stadium, Te Kaha, opens today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The morning&#8217;s headlines in 90 seconds, including evacuations amid Northland flooding, the Olympics makes a ruling on trans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3944,149383,6852,2024,96416,44246,185449,185450,185451,3455,21666,111,43,139,69,384,1401],"class_list":["post-349387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-car","tag-consumerism","tag-customer","tag-europe","tag-filling","tag-fossil-fuel","tag-fuel-and-power-generation","tag-fuel-pump","tag-gas-station","tag-gasoline","tag-holding","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-people","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}