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.

Moorea, along with ultra-expensive Bora Bora, is one French Polynesia's most popular islands with visitors. But remarkably, the impact of tourism, visually at least, is relatively low-key.

Viewers of The Pacific will be rewarded if they can stand the gritty reality, writes Pacific War veteran Harry Bioletti.

Five masked men today carried out the first known case of an armed bank robbery at a Westpac branch in Vaitele, Samoa.

This blog is going to finish today beside the Moorea lagoon, I promise.

An NZ watchdog says Fiji's new media decree targets members of the public as well as journalists and editors.

The sunken ferry Princess Ashika was known to be unseaworthy by the Tongan government, leaked reports claim.

Weather analyst Philip Duncan explains the power of tropical storms.

A woman's trial for murdering a three-year-old boy in her care was abandoned today after four weeks because a key medical witness was too ill to give evidence.

Over 18,000 Fijians are in evacuation centres as Cyclone Tomas continues to slam its islands with rain and high winds. Officials say there have been more deaths.

A state of disaster has been declared in cyclone-ravaged Fiji by its prime minister, Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama.