First Up

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

A Cook Islands travel bubble could be on the cards before the end of the year - but the government's only looking at quarantine free travel there and the other realm countries - Tokelau and Niue. That… Read more Audio

In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, business is booming for an Auckland divorce coach. Kimberlee Sweeney, who has been in the job for five years, says couples are untying the knot in numbers she's… Read more Audio

A set of swings stolen from a Taumarunui park were found when police executed search warrants in the area, that also uncovered firearms, drugs and cash. The Cherry Grove Park swings went missing… Read more Audio