From the news talks Heaby newsroom. This is NEWSFACS In this update. Nearly fifty people, mostly crew, have spent the night on board and inter Island a ferry that's run aground near picton the aditeddy ferry was undergoing a freight only voyage when it suffered a steering failure, causing it to run aground shortly after leaving port at nine forty five last night. Intero Islander General Manager Duncan Roy says there are no injuries and the vessel's watertight. Nelson MP Rachel Boyak says she's had contact with the crew on board during the night and everyone's fine. The ship will be refloated as tidal conditions allow. The next high tident picked in is at nine this morning. The Electricity Watchdog hopes to complete the first stage of its toppled electricity tower investigation next month. Northland experienced widespread outages on Thursday afternoon after a transmission tower fell down at Gloret, northwest of Auckland. Whilmost had power back that night, Transpower expects power to be fully restored over the weekend this afternoon at the earliest. It says its workers were carrying out maintenance at the time and has started an investigation. WorkSafe is also investigating, as is the Electricity Authority CEO Sarah Gilly says they want to move quickly, so they're splitting it up into phases. The first phase would be looking consuming the scope and the tender of reference. Subject to that scope being confirmed, we'd be looking to have something by the end of July. A request for changes to local government elections following criticism of Invercargulls mayor's behavior. Nobby Clarke survived calls to resign yesterday in response to comments he made at a United Fire Brigades Association prize giving, which he blamed on surgery brain fate. However, his councils asked him to step back from public appearances after councilors confirmed head breached the code of conduct. Taxpayers Union Local Government campaigns manager Sam Warren says in these situations people should have the power to remove inappropriate representatives via the poles and that's news to sport and to super finished to the latest Super eight clash at Cricket's T twenty World Cup, go back at the Lantha swinging a mess from Jofra Archer and South Africa continue their unbeaten run in this tournament. The Proteers have held on for a seven run win over England on sky Sport. There the English posted one hundred and fifty six for six in replied to the Proteas one hundred and sixty three for six. Austria have a win on the board at football's European Championships, wrapping up the three to one victory over Poland. Ukraine's hopes of reaching the last sixteen have been boosted by a two to one win over Slovakia and a desperate final defensive stand has helped the Storm clincher thirty to twenty four victory over the Dolphins and Leagues NRL Melbourne remain at the top of the table. And that's Sport. I'm Scarlet Swatanovich. For more news, listen to News Talk set B Live on iHeartRadio.
From the news talks Heaby newsroom. This is NEWSFACS In this update. Nearly fifty people, mostly crew, have spent the night on board and inter Island a ferry that's run aground near picton the aditeddy ferry was undergoing a freight only voyage when it suffered a steering failure, causing it to run aground shortly after leaving port at nine forty five last night. Intero Islander General Manager Duncan Roy says there are no injuries and the vessel's watertight. Nelson MP Rachel Boyak says she's had contact with the crew on board during the night and everyone's fine. The ship will be refloated as tidal conditions allow. The next high tident picked in is at nine this morning. The Electricity Watchdog hopes to complete the first stage of its toppled electricity tower investigation next month. Northland experienced widespread outages on Thursday afternoon after a transmission tower fell down at Gloret, northwest of Auckland. Whilmost had power back that night, Transpower expects power to be fully restored over the weekend this afternoon at the earliest. It says its workers were carrying out maintenance at the time and has started an investigation. WorkSafe is also investigating, as is the Electricity Authority CEO Sarah Gilly says they want to move quickly, so they're splitting it up into phases. The first phase would be looking consuming the scope and the tender of reference. Subject to that scope being confirmed, we'd be looking to have something by the end of July. A request for changes to local government elections following criticism of Invercargulls mayor's behavior. Nobby Clarke survived calls to resign yesterday in response to comments he made at a United Fire Brigades Association prize giving, which he blamed on surgery brain fate. However, his councils asked him to step back from public appearances after councilors confirmed head breached the code of conduct. Taxpayers Union Local Government campaigns manager Sam Warren says in these situations people should have the power to remove inappropriate representatives via the poles and that's news to sport and to super finished to the latest Super eight clash at Cricket's T twenty World Cup, go back at the Lantha swinging a mess from Jofra Archer and South Africa continue their unbeaten run in this tournament. The Proteers have held on for a seven run win over England on sky Sport. There the English posted one hundred and fifty six for six in replied to the Proteas one hundred and sixty three for six. Austria have a win on the board at football's European Championships, wrapping up the three to one victory over Poland. Ukraine's hopes of reaching the last sixteen have been boosted by a two to one win over Slovakia and a desperate final defensive stand has helped the Storm clincher thirty to twenty four victory over the Dolphins and Leagues NRL Melbourne remain at the top of the table. And that's Sport. I'm Scarlet Swatanovich. For more news, listen to News Talk set B Live on iHeartRadio.