COMMENT: New Zealand's perceived geographic insulation from external dangers is now redundant.

Three fishermen missing at sea for more than a week have been found alive by the RNZAF.

After two years living in New Zealand, a sailing trip to Vanuatu ended with Doug Nash's wife dying in his arms.

A man convicted of beating his wife so severely that he perforated her eardrum has left New Zealand.

Michael Brown checks into Mantaray Island Resort, in the Yasawa Islands, Fiji.

For 80 years we've been wondering what happened to Amelia Earhart during her attempt to fly around the world. This could be the answer.

Kiwi scientists have brought their pest-busting expertise to a spectacular Pacific atoll formerly owned by late legendary actor Marlon Brando.

New researchers explors how the first settlers colonised the Pacific islands.

More than 400 people have been deported for a criminal offence in the last five years - the majority from Samoa, China and Tonga.

Tracey Bond tags along with a group of bar hoppers for a Tik-e Tour of Rarotonga's best watering holes.

Former Fiji military strongman Frank Bainimarama will deliver the message that Fiji is open for business.

A wetter summer season is on the cards for the upper North Island - but that doesn't mean people should go cancelling their Coromandel holiday plans.

An arrangement that allows Fijian seasonal workers to come to New Zealand is likely to be discussed by both Prime Ministers.

At Waikiki it's never a question of how long you want your ride to be. You've only got to think about how you're going to get back.

Sandy Kilgour checks in at the Nautilus Resort, Muri Beach, Rarotonga.

Captain Awesome helps Chris Daniels become his sons' coconut hero in Raro.

The East Coast Lab has been launched to research New Zealand's least understood subduction zone, the Hikurangi Trough.

If moonbows, starry skies and volcanic activity peak your interest, head to one of the two national parks on these remote Pacific islands.

Spread across three separate islands, this national park is home to an abundance of fish and coral species, as well as native bats and lush rainforests.

It is the second fatal attack in the South Pacific territory in six months.

Fiji has 333 islands. Some are large, some small - sticking up like green molars in a Listerine sea, each with its own smile of beach.

Tonga's internet-breaking Olympic flag-bearer is ready to tread the catwalk tonight as part of the inaugural Pacific Fusion Fashion Show.

Whether you want to live it up, chow down, take the heat or just chill, Port Vila has what you want, writes Shandelle Battersby.

Small developing states in the Pacific have traditionally relied on imports of fossil fuels.

Tired of the flop and drop? Stephanie Holmes finds some memorable adventures for your next tropical getaway.

For the first time in three years, lava from a volcano on Hawaii's Big Island has crept down kilometres of mountainside and is dripping into the Pacific Ocean.

Pacific MPs are coming under pressure from former All Blacks to vote against changes to Easter trading laws.

Maria de Jong saddles up with with Wayne and trepidation for a plantation trek.

Michelle Weir stays on a car-free private island where the noise of the ocean and people laughing are the only sounds to be heard.

Paul Davies flies from Oahu to the island of Hawaii.