First Up for Tuesday 17 November 2020

5:53 AM.Masks will be compulsory on all public transport in Auckland and on all domestic flights from 11.59 tomorrow night. Cabinet made the decision yesterday following a community infection scare in… Read more Audio

5:45 AM.Over 100 graduates from the New Zealand Management Academies Manukau have received their level 4 certificate in Early Childhood Education home-based teaching - all of whom are Pasifika. The graduation… Read more Audio

5:38 AM.Meanwhile, the Leonid meteor shower will be in full effect over the next few mornings, joining Nathan Rarere from the Dunedin observatory is astronomer Ian Griffin. Read more Audio

5:33 AM.Last year he launched a car into Space, and yesterday Elon Musk successfully sent 4 astronauts up to the International Space Station in his SpaceX Dragon Crew-1 capsule, just days after the the… Read more Audio

5:24 AM.Earlier this year, the Variegated Monstera came out of nowhere to be one of the most sought after and highly prized pot-plants ever listed on TradeMe. In January, one example reached 5-thousand… Read more Audio

5:11 AM.To the UK now where Prime Minister Boris Johnson and a number of his MPs are self-isolating after being exposed to covid-19. The Prime Minister was hospitalised earlier this year when he contracted… Read more Audio