The festive season is barely over and the new year has only just begun.

If the shadow of climate change has hung over previous albums by this pan-Pacific group then it is hard to hear some of this without thinking of last year's tsunami.

The Princess Ashika was an old "rust bucket" and he had not revised a memorandum of agreement for purchasing the vessel, the man who was company secretary of the Shipping Corporation of Polynesia has told a Tongan royal commission.

My wife and I are off to Honolulu towards the end of December for 10 days. We're interested in things to do, things perhaps that are not on the well-beaten tourist track. Any tips?

The Govt has committed to improving diplomatic relations with Commodore Frank Bainimarama's interim Fiji Government.

Fijian police say it is too early to say if former All Black Robin Brooke will be charged for allegedly sexually harassing a teenage girl.

Police in Fiji have confirmed Robin Brooke is the former All Black being investigated over a sexual harassment claim.

Landslides and a tsunami destroyed the homes of about one-third of the population on a Solomon Island but lives were likely spared as residents with memories of previous disasters fled quickly to higher ground, officials said Tuesday.

In 1999, on the eve of the millennium, the Herald interviewed 10 young people who represented the future. A decade on, we catch up with a few of them.

Charles Darwin spent nine days in New Zealand in 1835. He disliked the young country, but his experience helped shape his monumental theories about evolution.

Many nations fear rising water levels, but the Netherlands already has practical experience.

Fiji will today start cleaning up and counting the cost after Cyclone Mick swept across the Pacific nation yesterday.