A strike by government workers at Tahiti's international airport has grounded flights in and out of the island nation.

World rugby sevens champions Manu Samoa returned home yesterday to a joyous celebration of their achievement.

Sam Morgan has invested $700,000 in a Pacific Island-based microfinance company.

Air NZ says reports one of its planes was on a collision course with another aircraft are nothing more than "sensationalist" media coverage.

There is a place where you'll find the authentic Fiji experience, the real deal with fearsome island warriors and beautiful Melanesian women.

The island of Samoa is beginning to let some of its environmental commitments slide.

A British yachtsman has found a small group of people near to starvation on a remote island in the Pacific.

Tsunami-wrecked houses in Samoa are being rebuilt on higher ground - but without protection against cyclones or earthquakes, engineers say.

Jill Worrall explores the abundant waters around Moorea.

Papua New Guinea's prolonged cholera outbreak has surfaced in the capital Port Moresby, claiming three lives.

Samoa's prime minister says the Pacific Islands Forum HQ doesn't belong in Suva any more.

Niue offers a different sort of tropical getaway - especially if you enter the island's annual bike race, finds Russell Baillie.

It's amazing what the lure of pottering around tropical fish and coral will do, writes newly-converted early bird Jill Worrall.