A search is underway for a Kiribati ferry missing for seven days with 50 people on board.

Orion searching for three people lost near an atoll in the central Pacific.

A Royal NZ Air Force Orion has lost power in one engine but has landed safely.

The three men having been missing for more than five days after going fishing on Monday.

NZDF find three Kiribati fishermen who were missing for four days in the Pacific Ocean.

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A 14-year-old from Kiribati was rescued after drifting alone in the Pacific Ocean.

The Air Force has sent a plane to Kiribati in search for three fishermen.

The Royal New Zealand Air Force has successfully rescued two Kiribati fishermen who were reported missing last week, just days after a first successful mission in the same region.

Kiribati believes Australia is struggling with its position on climate change, preventing the nation from going into bat for its Pacific neighbours at major climate talks in Paris.

A last-ditch appeal against the deportation of a man who claimed to be the world's first climate change refugee has failed.

On March 26, the last of the southern coastwatchers, John Stuart Jones, was to have voyaged to the Auckland Islands with an expedition to restore his old home in Ranui Cove.

New forensic imaging techniques are being used to solve the mystery of the final resting place of Amelia Earhart, whose plane vanished over the Pacific in 1937.

The government has announced an investment plan to develop tourism in Kiribati.

The story from NZ that received the most international play this week was: NZ rejects climate change refugee. Kooky. But his effort to gain asylum here because of the impact of climate change in Kiribati is more a harbinger than an oddity.

An Air Force Orion is this morning continuing to search for three Kiribati fishermen overdue from a fishing trip.

The Defence Force has been criticised for nine months of "evasive" responses over the possible discovery of long-lost Kiwi war heroes in the Pacific.

As John Key prepares for a White House visit next week, New Zealand's Pacific role is growing in value.

Kiribati authorities have confirmed a small canoe found in the Pacific Ocean was that which six young people were in when they were swept away.