First Up

This week's new MP is Labour's Northcote representative, Shanan Halbert. Mr Halbert took the Northcote seat off National's incumbent Dan Bidois in the 2020 General Election and says it was a hard… Read more Audio

Nathan caught up with our Vienna, Austria correspondent Catherine Walbridge where Austria's neighbour is closing its borders. Audio

We'll find out later today when Auckland will come out of Level 3 lockdown. A 4.30 this afternoon the Director General of Health Ashley Bloomfield and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will hold a press… Read more Audio

The Finance Minister Grant Robertson has said that the Government will set up a new Resurgence Support Payment for businesses affected by any resurgence of COVID-19. They say businesses that can show… Read more Audio

For the second day in a row there were no new community cases of Covid-19 in the country yesterday, despite a testing blitz which saw over 15-thousand people swabbed in the previous 24 hours. We'll… Read more Audio

If you would like a job in space then have we got great news for you! The European Space Agency is looking for new astronauts. Hopefuls have 8 weeks to apply on thet Agency's website from the 31 March… Read more Audio

We're continuing to get to know some of the innovative and creative small businesses New Zealand has to offer. This morning we'll hear from Hollie Hales-Whitaker and her growing business which sells… Read more Audio

COVID-19 appeared from nowhere last year and changed the world as we know it. But a number of scientists have been working on ways to predict where the next coronavirus might emerge. A new study out… Read more Audio

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has had a crack at Australia for dumping responsibility for a woman and two young children detained at the Turkish border on New Zealand. The PM says the woman, who had… Read more Audio

We stay with the Covid outbreak now, which has Auckland under an Alert Level 3 lockdown and the rest of the country at level 2. Who better to talk us through developments than microbiologist Dr… Read more Audio

As of yesterday afternoon, community testing centres had swabbed close to 2300 people in Auckland alone. A pop-up testing centre has been set up at Papatoetoe High School, while New Plymouth - where… Read more Audio

The first Covid-19 Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines have landed. They'll be administered to frontline border workers from this Saturday. Health officials expect all New Zealanders aged over 16 to be… Read more Audio