First Up for Thursday 21 October 2021

5:53 AM.A single ticket has taken out last night's 42.2 million dollar Lotto draw. The winning ticket was bought in the northern Waikato town of Pokeno - which is famous for its massive ice-creams and pork… Read more Audio

5:45 AM.Tomorrow at 10am, the Prime Minister will announce a new Covid-19 protection framework.. essentially more freedoms tagged to vaccination rates.. and hopefully some dates for Auckland retail… Read more Audio

5:35 AM.From next Tuesday high school students in years 11-13 who live in alert level 3 areas will be able return to the classroom. Students who return will need to wear a mask, and staff and volunteers… Read more Audio

5:26 AM.In New Zealand in the 70s we had On The Mat, in the 80s it was the WWF Superstars of wrestling, and for the last 30 years the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) has been the biggest, if not the only… Read more Audio

5:23 AM.It's that time of the week where we cast our eyes around the motu and talk to our Local Democracy reporters, this week it is the turn of Chloe Ranford who's based in Marlborough. Audio

5:15 AM.Former WRC rally driver Hayden Paddon's electric car will make it's competitive debut this weekend at a hill climb near Waimate. Paddon has spent the last two and a half years developing the Hyundai… Read more Audio

5:10 AM.The first study in New Zealand into microplastics in wastewater plants has found hundreds of thousands of microplastics enter the ocean around Aotearoa every day. Taking samples from water coming into… Read more Audio

5:06 AM.We begin this morning in Europe where Italian police have made arrests in a mafia crack down. For more on this story and a few other morsels from the earth's most northern continent, Nathan Rarere was… Read more Audio