First Up for Wednesday 20 April 2022

5:52 AM.A quarter of homes in Auckland's 'special character areas' could be rezoned for intensification - meaning apartments and townhouses popping up near urban centres to help with the city's housing… Read more Audio

5:48 AM.An employment advocate says she's been inundated with inquiries from employers and staff who are at loggerheads over mask wearing rules. At the orange Covid traffic light setting masks are no longer… Read more Audio

5:35 AM.A leading academic says it's likely that money from Russian oligarchs is still circulating in New Zealand, despite the sanctions on Vladimir Putin's regime. It comes as the government tries to… Read more Audio

5:24 AM.On this week's TradeMe roundup, Ruby Topzand and producer Jeremy Parkinson talk electric cars and Jetpacks. But first they discussed an art auction raising money for European children's charity "A… Read more Audio

5:15 AM.To the US now, where mask mandates are out, but testicle tanning is in.. For more on those topics Nathan Rarere is joined by our roving reporter Alex Baird who is in California. Audio

5:09 AM.To Australia now where they're heading into a Federal election - and one of the big issues is regional security.. Joining Nathan Rarere from Brisbane is our correspondent Pam Corkery. Audio