First Up for Thursday 19 November 2020

5:49 AM.Wairoa Mayor Craig Little speaks to Ellie Jay about Kiwirail reopening line to Napier taking hundreds of logging trucks off the roads. Audio

5:49 AM.This weekend the Wairoa to Napier rail line will re-open. The line - which sat mothballed for eight years, was opened earlier this year for just a week before being closed because of covid-19's… Read more Audio

5:45 AM.Today marks ten years since the Pike River mine tragedy. On the 19th of November in 2010, 29 men were killed in a West Coast coal mine in a methane explosion - their bodies have never been recovered… Read more Audio

5:38 AM.Masks are now compulsory on all public transport throughout the Auckland region and on all domestic flights throughout the country. The changes came into effect from midnight. Taxi and uber drivers… Read more Audio

5:33 AM.Retailers and importers are grappling with lengthy wait times to bring products into the country - with no signs of relief before Christmas. A backlog of ships waiting to get into the Ports of… Read more Audio

5:22 AM.Sam Dakin was just six when he first pencilled down his dream of becoming an Olympian. Yesterday that dream became a reality when the 24-year-old Auckland was selected in the New Zealand track cycling… Read more Audio

5:07 AM.Countries across Europe are in lockdown again as coronavirus cases surge. Most countries are declaring more cases each day now, than they were earlier in the year. Our correspondent Catherine… Read more Audio