The Kiwis got a wake-up call tonight ahead of the inaugural Four Nations rugby league tournament when they made hard work of beating a gallant Tongan side.

Investors in a Fiji resort are pushing to get more than $1 million they are owed.

The global downturn is hitting travel plans, but Megan Singleton discovers a way to make that Tahitian holiday affordable after all.

Seven-year-old Liam Porter, of Papamoa, says when he doesn't save he usually spends his $2 of weekly pocket money on lollies.

A combined memorial for the victims of the Pacific tsunami is planned for West Auckland tonight.

The father of two young women swept to their deaths by the Samoan tsunami told their funeral yesterday they would have "fought hard".

A premature baby born in Samoa after his pregnant mother fled the tsunami is back in Auckland and about to undergo surgery.

Today is a national day of mourning in Samoa as they bury the dead in a mass funeral.

Heavyweight boxer David Tua stands solemnly at the beach he knows well, looking defeated at the devastation the tsunami left behind.

Scenes of panic are reported in Vanuatu after several earthquakes sparked a tsunami warning.

Civil Defence says a tsunami threat remains in place for NZ despite the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre cancelling its warning.

The Ministry of Health will today send an air ambulance from Auckland on a mercy flight to pick up a baby born prematurely in Samoa.

The NZ volunteer firefighter killed while alerting people in Samoa to last week's tsunami has been remembered in Apia.

A baby born prematurely after his mother fled the tsunami may die in Samoa if his parents can't raise $100,000 needed to fly him back to NZ.