First Up

A south Auckland clinic has also been closed due to a covid positive case - believed to be one of the 4 already confirmed cases announced on Tuesday. The Ministry of Health announced one of the four… Read more Audio

Auckland school principals are worried the three-day shutdown of the city's schools will be extended. The move to level three has sent about 250-thousand children home. Steve Hargreaves from the… Read more Audio

Horticulture New Zealand is frustrated independent greengrocers in Auckland are being forced to close under the level three lockdown. The industry fought hard last lockdown to try to get Government… Read more Audio

The announcement that Auckland has community transmission of Covid has sent our largest city and the country's rest homes back into lockdown, prompted queues outside supermarkets and warnings the… Read more Audio

To Australia now, where Victoria recorded 21 deaths yesterday in Australia's deadliest day in the coronavirus pandemic. Another 410 cases were confirmed - many of the cases linked to aged care… Read more Audio

The Prime Minister announced level 3 restrictions will begin at midday for all of Auckland and last until midnight on Friday, while the rest of the country will move to Alert level 2. There are 4 new… Read more Audio

In Australia, a New Zealand doctor is dealing with as many as a hundred covid cases a day at the epicentre of the massive Melbourne outbreak. Former Wellingtonian Megan Robb is the director of… Read more Audio

After years of lobbying successive governments, iwi on the East Coast have finally received funding and support to restore the dying Raukumara Forest. The government has invested 34 million dollars to… Read more Audio

A brand new 45-million dollar film studio for the Wellington region is being bankrolled by just one Upper Hutt family. On the site of an old data centre, the studio will feature two… Read more Audio

Let's cross now to the USA where presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Joe Biden is expected to pick his running mate sometime within the next 24 hours. Traditionally, vice-presidential… Read more Audio

A warning there could be an exodus of Cook Islanders to New Zealand if a clearer timeframe for a travel bubble isn't announced soon. Liana Scott, who manages the Muri Beach Club Hotel in Rarotonga and… Read more Audio