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Air New Zealand cancelled thousands of flights and grounded planes as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The Commerce Commission received more complaints about Air New Zealand than any other company in the year to June 2020, the market watchdog says. But the Commerce Commission said that a complaint laid against a company did not necessarily mean the company had done anything wrong, and larger companies generated more complaints due to their size and scale. Also, some complaints were not in...

Stay out of the water: Weekend downpour triggers Portland sewage overflow into the Willamette Updated Dec 20, 2020; Facebook Share Portland sewage spilled into the Willamette River on Sunday as the weekend’s heavy rainfall overwhelmed the capacity of the city’s water treatment facilities. Sewage is pouring into the river at eight spots between the Ross Island Bridge and Swan Island. The Portland Bureau of Environmental Services says people should stay out of the water for 48 hours after th...

Will 2020 Be The First Sewage-Free Year For The Willamette River? In a year where good news seems scarce, Portland may reach a historic milestone for Willamette River water quality. The year 2020 is on track to be the first in modern history with zero combined sewer overflows to the river. That’s a triumph of Portland’s investment in the Big Pipe Project, the $1.4B 20-year-long public infrastructure project that dramatically reduced such incidents and changed Portland’s relationship with ...

Welcome back. amazing medical breakthroughs are breathing new life into americas wounded warriors. coming up, a bionic man who is ready to return to battle. but first, i want to take a look at some of the other stories that were following for you in the news tonight. first bp says its going to try again to stop that leak that has gushed millions of gallons of oil into the gulf of mexico. the latest attempt, you heard it here, will involve a tube designed to be inserted into the ruptured pipe, ...

Out of there than what we originally thought half. is bp saying about that? >> reporter: well, rick, this edebate all getting started when this video went out. different experts across the country using their own calculations to come up with their own much greater numbers. bp is now saying that theyre not taking some things into consideration, that this type of oil expands when it reaches water, that they really dont have a perspective on the size of the pipe, that they dont understand that its ...

Since this disaster began. >> the sense i get after that prop that you just used to show us is thats a hell of a lot of oil. by the way, i cant count how many different solutions have already been suggest order tried or eliminated or just failed. where are we now, david? what is the next plan? >> right now theyve got a plan in play theyve never tried before. not just at this depth, but never, ever before. theyre inserting a tube inside that big pipe, a tube to go in there with seals around it to...