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CNN
5 hours ago
- Science
- CNN
First Tsunami waves hit Hawaii after major quake in Russia
Water levels were recorded above four feet on the north shore of Hawaii's Oahu Island. University of Washington senior research scientist Yong Wei joins MJ Lee on 'Early Start' to discuss.
RNZ News
a day ago
- General
- RNZ News
Supermarket sign catches fire while customers were in store
File photo. Photo: RNZ / Nate McKinnon A supermarket on Auckland's North Shore has had to be evacuated after a fire this evening. Fire and Emergency were alerted to the blaze about 7.45pm, after the New World sign at the Brown's Bay supermarket ignited. The building, which was open at the time, was evacuated with smoke entering the store. A video posted on a Brown's Bay community group on social media showed flames coming from the building. Four fire appliances including a high reach truck were deployed. The fire has since been extinguished with two trucks remaining on scene. Last month a massive blaze broke out at the New World Victoria Park supermarket in central Auckland in June, taking more than 10 hours to extinguish.
RNZ News
2 days ago
- Politics
- RNZ News
Dropping NCEA level 1 'overwhelmingly positive' so far
Westlake Boys' High School on Auckland's North Shore established its own programme called 'Elevate' when it walked away from level 1. Photo: Google Maps As the government mulls what it is going to do about NCEA level 1, a school that dropped it two years ago has no regrets. Education Minister Erica Stanford is promising an announcement shortly about the future of the secondary school qualification. Westlake Boys' High School on Auckland's North Shore established its own programme called 'Elevate' when it walked away from level 1. "We felt that having our own course meant that we could keep the students longer, headmaster Paul Fordham told Morning Report. "We had situations where students were studying NCEA level 1 and when they left for their external examinations, only had one or two exams to sit across a three-or four-week period, which meant they were they were missing out an opportunity to engage with their learning." He said the results from its own programme had been "overwhelmingly positive so far" with good feedback from teachers and families. "It's still quite early on - we don't necessarily have the historical data to support how things are going academically, but the signs are positive across year 12 and 13 that the students have prepared well for level 2 and 3 NCEA." Some changes had to happen with the qualification, he said, but it needn't be "baby out with the bathwater". NCEA had good elements, such as a broad curriculum that gave students a chance to develop skills in lots of different areas, he said. However teachers marking their own students' work wasn't rigourous, or consistent across the country, he said. It's about consistency and and having a universal standard for the whole country. "Ensuring that the value of external examinations at the end of the year is high, and that the way in which we structure the programme to have increased weighting on those will be a positive change. Education Minister Erica Stanford Photo: RNZ / Mark Papalii The first place to look would be at the best examples of top-performing schools and how they were serving their students, Fordham said. Stanford said on Monday the announcement on NCEA, planned in the next weeks, followed an the Education Review Office report the previous government's rollout of NCEA level 1. "Because we do not want to repeat the mistakes of the past and we know we need good implementation time frames, good professional learning development and great resources. "We are very focused on making sure that those things happen."
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Health
- Yahoo
Man suffers spinal injuries after jumping off boat near North Shore beach
A young man was flown to the hospital with spinal injuries after police say he jumped off a boat and struck his head near a beach on the North Shore of Massachusetts on Friday. Emergency crews responding to a report of a person who dove off a boat, struck his head, and suffered a serious injury off Crane Estate in Ipswich just after 5 p.m. learned that a man in his 20s was undergoing life-saving care on Steep Hill Beach, Ipswich Police Chief Paul Nikas and Ipswich Fire Chief Paul Parisi said in a joint news release. When crews arrived at the beach, they learned that he had suffered acute spinal injuries and called for a Boston MedFlight helicopter, according to Nikas and Parisi. The helicopter landed on the beach, where firefighters and EMS personnel treated the conscious man, who was then flown to Lahey Hospital and Medical Center in Burlington for additional care. Parisi credited Crane Beach personnel with pulling the man from the water and performing life-saving measures that 'likely averted a fatality.' The incident remains under investigation. Download the FREE Boston 25 News app for breaking news alerts. Follow Boston 25 News on Facebook and Twitter. | Watch Boston 25 News NOW Solve the daily Crossword
CTV News
4 days ago
- Business
- CTV News
Independent review of North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant overruns on hold
The North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant is seen during construction in Fall 2020. (Metro Vancouver) Metro Vancouver has put its independent review of the massively over-budget North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant project on hold while it litigates the issue with the project's former contractor. The regional district announced the decision on Friday, saying it is 'not in the public interest' to continue the review while its lawsuit against Acciona Wastewater Solutions LP – and the company's counterclaim against Metro Vancouver – are before the courts. The litigation is currently scheduled to go to trial in March 2027. 'After careful consideration, the board has decided the public interest is best served by resolving the legal dispute with the previous contractor before undertaking the review,' said Burnaby Mayor Mike Hurley, chair of Metro Vancouver's Board of Directors, in a statement Friday. The board first launched the independent review process in June 2024, hiring retired judge John J.L. Hunter to 'develop the scope and terms of reference for the review and the process of selecting an independent, qualified reviewer,' Metro Vancouver's statement explains. Hunter has since died, and his role is now being filled by Randal Kaardal, a senior litigator at his company Hunter Litigation Chambers. Before his death, Hunter selected the MWGK Independent Review Team to conduct the review. In the Metro Vancouver statement, Kaardal said delaying the review until the conclusion of the court process will result in more information being available to the reviewer. 'The litigation is a public process, and once the dispute with the former contractor has been resolved, the Metro Vancouver board and the reviewer would be in a better position to complete a review on any outstanding questions,' Kaardal said. Metro Vancouver dismissed Acciona in October 2021, claiming that the company had 'abandoned' the project, a claim Acciona says is not true. The two sides are currently suing each other in B.C. Supreme Court, with Acciona alleging that Metro Vancouver has refused to pay it more than $100 million for work it completed on the site, and that the regional district made more than 1,000 requests for project modifications that led directly to the project's ballooning cost. For its part, Metro Vancouver says Acciona failed to meet project timelines and left it with 'no choice' but to cancel the contract. Acciona blames the delays on Metro Vancouver's 'flawed design' and 'interference' with the project. Originally budgeted at roughly $500 million and expected to be completed by 2020, the North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant project is now moving forward with a different contractor at a cost of $3.86 billion – more than seven times the original budget. The anticipated completion date is now sometime in 2030.
