First Up for Thursday 16 September 2021

5:55 AM.The search for a King Country man and his three children missing since the weekend will continue this morning. Thomas Phillips and his three children Jayda, Maverick and Ember aged 8, 6 and 5, have… Read more Audio

5:45 AM.Nathan Rarere asked the Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson the Level 4 essential items issue. But they began by discussing the half-a-million doses of the Pfizer vaccine that arrived in New Zealand… Read more Audio

5:35 AM.If all goes well and Covid-19 case numbers continue to drop, the Government has announced Auckland could move to Alert level 3 as early as next Tuesday. Until then non-essential businesses around the… Read more Audio

5:25 AM.Now it's that time of the week where we take a look round the country and check in with our Local Democracy reporters. Today we're in Rotorua with Felix Desmarais. Audio

5:15 AM.Older New Zealanders who are stuck abroad and unable to book MIQ spots fear that their pensions will stop being paid if they don't make it home within six months. This includes Rotorua couple Eddie… Read more Audio

5:10 AM.We head to Fiji now where it appears the chief executive of the Fiji Bureau of Statistics, Kemueli Naiqama, has been given the sack for publishing ... statistics. To help us get to the bottom of this… Read more Audio