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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2 weeks ago |
nzherald.co.nz | Alexa Cook
By Alexa Cook of RNZTairāwhiti is aiming to tackle its pine problems by taking up to 100,000 hectares of forestry and pastoral land out of production and planting it with permanent bush. The challenge it is faced with now is how to do that and who will pay the hundreds of millions of dollars it will cost. It comes as the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment calls for forestry credits for fossil fuel emissions to be phased out.
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2 weeks ago |
radionz.co.nz | Alexa Cook
The man who murdered 18 year old Ariki Rigby in 2022 has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum non-parole period of 12 years. She was brutally killed following an argument sparked by her wearing a gang member's t-shirt, and her body was found in a burnt out car in Havelock North in September 2022. Jimmy Heremaia, a 32-year-old orchard worker from Auckland pleaded guilty in February to the murder, was sentenced in the Napier High Court on Friday.
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2 weeks ago |
rnz.co.nz | Alexa Cook
Tai Rāwhiti is aiming to tackle its pine problems by taking up to 100,000 hectares of forestry and pastoral land out of production and planting it with permanent bush. The challenge it is faced with now is how to do that, and who will pay the hundreds of millions of dollars it'll cost. It comes as the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment calls for forestry credits for fossil fuel emissions to be phased out.
Watch: Tai Rāwhiti to replant 100,000 hectares of forestry and pasture with bush, but at whose cost?
2 weeks ago |
rnz.co.nz | Alexa Cook
Tai Rāwhiti is aiming to tackle its pine problems by taking up to 100,000 hectares of forestry and pastoral land out of production and planting it with permanent bush. The challenge it is faced with now is how to do that, and who will pay the hundreds of millions of dollars it'll cost. It comes as the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment calls for forestry credits for fossil fuel emissions to be phased out.
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3 weeks ago |
nzherald.co.nz | Alexa CookHawke's Bay |Alexa Cook
Bel Brooke Racing Stables owner Trudy Keegan's half-empty hay barn – about 600 bales have been stolen. By Alexa Cook of RNZPolice are investigating the theft of hundreds of bales of hay worth thousands of dollars in Taranaki. About 600 bales were stolen from a barn at Bel Brooke Racing Stables in Stratford. Police say it happened between 10.30am on Tuesday and 10.30am on Wednesday. Another property 40 minutes away near New Plymouth also told RNZ they have had 300 bales stolen.
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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.
