First Up for Wednesday 3 November 2021

5:54 AM.Sir Ian Taylor is one of the first New Zealanders to be able to travel abroad and return without going through managed isolation. The founder of Animation Research limited, is now in LA, where he's… Read more Audio

5:50 AM.Waikato have made the move to Alert level 3.2 overnight meaning museums, libraries and Zoo's can open, with limits on numbers and social distancing, But what will that look like? Hamilton zoo will… Read more Audio

5:45 AM.Back to Northland's Level 3 Covid lockdown now. With the region's vaccination rates still relatively low, Iwi leaders have been calling for Te Tai Tokerau to go to level 3 for the past few weeks after… Read more Audio

5:38 AM.And on the government's Covid-19 website, the Awanui Hotel on State Highway 1 was listed yesterday as a location of interest. Our producer Mattthew Theunissen gave them a call and had a chat with… Read more Audio

5:31 AM.The the top of the North Island is now in an Alert Level 3 lockdown after two mystery cases of Covid-19 were detected in Taipa, just south of the Karikari Peninsula. A boundary has been set up from… Read more Audio

5:24 AM.COP26 is taking place at the moment, world leaders have gathered to try to tackle climate change. Joining Nathan Rarere from the COP26 conference in Glasgow is our correspondent Laura Makin Isherwood.

5:10 AM.We're going to head over to Australia now, sticking with the COP26 summit...Aussie PM Scott Morrison is in hot water over a submarine deal - the French PM Emmanuel Macron said he know he's been lied… Read more Audio