First Up for Friday 10 December 2021

5:52 AM.Businesses in the small West Coast town of Reefton are being devastated by staff shortages due to employees refusing to get the Covid-19 vaccine. Around 79 per cent of people in the area have had one… Read more Audio

5:48 AM.Animal charity HUHA is sticking to its guns.. defying police requests to return 24 dogs stolen from a Taumarunui breeder. The dogs, most in very poor health, were dropped off to animal charity… Read more Audio

5:42 AM.An ICU doctor at Auckland Hospital says all Covid-19 patients who've been admitted to the ICU have NOT been vaccinated. As of yesterday there were 70 Covid-19 patients in hospital with 5 in the… Read more Audio

5:42 AM.Two weeks to go until Christmas, can you believe it and the shops are full of new summer fruits and veges and here to tell us what to buy in these last week - we go to our Minister of Fruit and Veges… Read more Audio

5:13 AM.Let's cross the Tasman now where a Queensland couple has taken desperate measures, chartering a plane to get their beloved rescue dog from Christchurch to the Gold Coast. Tash Corbin and her partner… Read more Audio

5:06 AM.We begin this morning in the US, where our correspondent Bevan Hurley has been in court reporting on the Ghislaine Maxwell trial. Audio