Chris Murray: “If you do nothing, you get a much worse winter ahead.”

If more states started putting those orders in place immediately, would that affect the death toll? Absolutely.

Now, more than ever, we need politicians willing to stand strong on climate action as the country swelters through record-breaking heatwaves, in the hottest summer of our lives - so far.

North Bridge is fully open! Huge thanks to everyone involved in the mammoth repair job to get it reopened in both directions.

We submit that the answer is an easy and emphatic yes.