First Up for Wednesday 9 September 2020

5:06 AM.To the US where they are exactly 8 weeks out from their presidential election and Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden is still ahead in many polls - but - as Donald Trump proved in 2016, that… Read more Audio

5:10 AM.The son of a soldier in the Maori Battalion says he was blown away to learn his father never received his war medals. A list of 134 soldiers from the Battalion's C company has been published online… Read more Audio

5:33 AM.We have our minister for Fruit and Veggies and now we are going to start taking a monthly look at Kai Moana. Keen fisherman Brett Sellers is Foodstuffs seafood operations manager and has been a… Read more Audio

5:37 AM.Auckland secondary principals are relieved their students will get a further boost to their NCEA scores after the latest lockdown. Bonus credits were announced for all NCEA students after the first… Read more Audio

5:44 AM.A woman involved in hiring the chief executive of the United Fire Brigades' Association says she tried to raise concerns about him and was brushed off. Bill Butzbach was stood down last week pending… Read more Audio

5:48 AM.Parents and caregivers are being urged to keep their children off social media after footage of a man dying by suicide went viral on TikTok. The social media platform has been attempting to remove the… Read more Audio

5:52 AM.New covid-19 cases linked to the Mt Roskill Church "mini-cluster" are still emerging - so how long will it take the cluster to close? Another case was identified late last night - a pupil at St… Read more Audio