First Up for Tuesday 15 September 2020

5:50 AM.Restaurant and bar owners around the country say they need more government help if they are to survive another 10 days of the current Covid-19 restrictions. Yesterday's Alert Level announcement means… Read more Audio

5:47 AM.Efforts to stop Covid-19 are having at least one welcome side effect, the flu season is almost non-existent in the southern hemisphere. That's according to data from the World Health Organisation's… Read more Audio

5:44 AM.Landlords are being warned to play by the rules when it comes to setting rents, as the rent-freeze draws to an end next week. Tenants are bracing themselves for hike, with one tenant RNZ spoke to… Read more Audio

5:36 AM.Forest & Bird is alarmed that some conservation land where Tahr numbers need to be reduced is excluded from this year's control operations plan. There's been a lot of disagreement on how best to… Read more Audio

5:26 AM.In 2011, the MV Rena ran aground on the Astrolabe Reef in the Bay of Plenty resulting in the worst ever maritime environmental disaster in New Zealand's history. And for a few thousand dollars a piece… Read more Audio

5:14 AM.To the UK where yet another former Prime Minister has come out against Boris Johnson's plan to override the Brexit withdrawal agreement. This time it's David Cameron - the man who insigated Brexit… Read more Audio

5:10 AM.When oil company Tamarind Taranaki abruptly abandoned the Tui oil field in December, it left taxpayers facing a bill of at least 155 million dollars to plug the undersea wells. Now a whistleblower… Read more Audio