Tourism retailers see an upsurge in Kiwi's heading abroad as the strengthening dollar makes overseas travel more appealing.

A mother-of-four killed on her way to the airport to fly home to Vanuatu had spent six months working in NZ to raise money after her husband's death.

Catherine Masters joins a Kiwi catamaran on its first cruise around Vanuatu.

John Key and his predecessor swap views during a "wide ranging" discussion in New York.

Simon Vincent finds you don't have to spend a fortune to have a perfect holiday.

Samoa's radical road switch has claimed its first casualty.

Kilauea quietly steams as worshippers bring offerings to its deity... But the volcano can still show no mercy, writes Jim Eagles.

A woman accused of inflicting head injuries which nearly killed her son asked the child's grandmother for forgiveness, a court was told.

Samoan police will remain on alert for accidents today, the second day since the switch to driving on the left.

The outsized rodent, which has been named the Bosavi woolly rat, is almost a metre long and weighs in at 1.5kg.

This morning I drove out of my house on the right hand side of the road, and returned on the left, in the same country, in the same car.

Samoans are bracing themselves for chaos today as motorists switch to driving on the left.