Alexa Cook
Senior Reporter at Newshub
Senior RNZ Journalist. News Journalist of the Year 2024. Former Newshub TV3 and BBC. Get in touch if you have a good yarn! [email protected]
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6 days ago |
rnz.co.nz | Alexa Cook
After facing public backlash over a proposal to close Napier Library, the council has decided to keep it open. In a bid to save ratepayers, the council proposed shutting Napier Library for two years until the new library was built. However, after widespread push back from residents, the council has backtracked and will keep the library open at least five days a week.
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1 week ago |
radionz.co.nz | Alexa Cook
Opponents of the controversial Ruataniwha Dam in Central Hawke's Bay staged a surprise protest outside a Centralines meeting in Waipukurau discussing the use of trust beneficiaries' money for the fast-tracked dam project. The protest comes a month after Centralines trustee Tony Murphy resigned because the electricity distributor's board put $100,000 towards a re-scope of the fast-tracked and rebranded Ruataniwha Dam, now called the Tukituki Water Security Project.
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1 week ago |
rnz.co.nz | Gianina Schwanecke |Alexa Cook
Those in the primary sector say the government's new targets to reduce the queues to approve new agricultural and horticultural products don't go far enough. It follows a regulatory review which found the approval process for the agricultural and horticultural products, like pesticides, herbicides and fertilisers, wasn't always allowing timely access to the products.
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1 week ago |
radionz.co.nz | Alexa Cook
Those in the primary sector say the government's new targets to reduce the queues to approve new agricultural and horticultural products don't go far enough. It follows a regulatory review which found the approval process for the agricultural and horticultural products, like pesticides, herbicides and fertilisers, wasn't always allowing timely access to the products.
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1 week ago |
rnz.co.nz | Alexa Cook
New research from GNS Science reveals natural ecosystems, such as kelp forests, can slow down the speed of tsunamis in New Zealand. The pilot study was carried out in Napier and looked at both natural and manmade tsunami defences along the coastline using computer simulated models. These mimicked the resistant forces of each ecosystem and compared the maximum inundation extent, flow depth and speed, and where areas may have been eroded and sediments deposited.
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Tune in to @patrickgowernz and I this summer! https://t.co/hJEiZAnjqZ
RNZ has announced that Paddy Gower and Alexa Cook will host Morning Report from 13 - 27 January as part of its summer programming.
RT @MitchMcCannNZ: Images from Bradenton, Florida, I took this afternoon. This is some of the damage left behind by #hurricanemilton https:…
First of several stories from my trip to Gisborne last week - local businesses are really struggling with the decline in forestry.
