The United States has agreed to consider taking refugees from Australian detention centres, Secretary of State John Kerry said at a press conference in New Zealand.

New Zealand fans of Disney's first Pasifika princess - Moana - will get their first glimpse of the film in mid December.

Artist Michel Tuffery and the New Zealand High Commissioner to the Cook Islands, Nick Hurley, explain what's being created for the RSA Cemetery in Rarotonga.

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.

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

Sam Aldred checks into the Holiday Inn, Vanuatu.

The gunman who allegedly shot two people dead had earlier retrieved a gun from a container near his house while on community work with other prisoners.

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.

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

Pre-visit research shows me the name Nuku'alofa means "abode of love" and Tonga's main island, Tongatapu, means "Sacred South".

Otherwise known as the "Soft Coral Capital of the World", Fiji offers some of the globe's best scuba diving.

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.