The East Coast Lab has been launched to research New Zealand's least understood subduction zone, the Hikurangi Trough.

Habitat for Humanity's Malcolm Whalley is looking for volunteers to join him in building homes in Samoa before typhoon season hits.

Professor Stephen McGarvey talks about his recent breakthrough establishing a link between Samoan populations and obesity.

The Northland B rugby team will take on the Manu Samoa A team in a game at Toll Stadium, Whangarei, tonight. The match kicks off

Irasa Siave writes a love letter to Samoa.

A Kiwi high school teacher is turning heads for his ability to perform one of the Pacific's most recognised cultural acts - fire knife dancing.

One of the biggest traditional Samoan houses to be built outside of the islands will be officially opened in South Auckland today.

Lauitiiti Tualima was already a dangerous prisoner when he escaped from jail and changed the lives of two innocent Australians.

Five reasons to visit Samoa with a teenager by Helen van Berkel.

The Samoan Prime Minister says he is "appalled" over the decision of a local newspaper to publish a photograph of a suspected suicide victim in her final moments.

Outrage has erupted in Samoa after a national newspaper published a photograph on its front page of a dead transgender woman.

Samoan Language Week kicks off today and for the first time an educational booklet is available to encourage New Zealanders to learn the language.

Savai'i is the beautiful, wilder sister of the two main islands, writes Bruce Munro.

Air New Zealand are still scheduled to fly to Samoa this afternoon.

Tropical Cyclone Amos is starting to show its fierce hand over Samoa, with reports of flash flooding, trees down and mass power outages.

Dead worker was carrying out maintenance work when the tank exploded.

Dramatic photos of the fire have been shared on social media, including one by Christchurch East MP Poto Williams.

A woman claiming to have suffered stigmata -- the injuries Jesus suffered when he was crucified -- has become the subject of hot debate.

Laze, swim and snorkel endlessly at the many beautiful, sandy beaches of this reef-ringed island.

I fell in love with Samoa in the unlikeliest of places, 4 hours after leaving New Zealand.

It is the end of Alama Ieremia's first week in Apia in his new role as Manu Samoa's head coach.

Health authorities have added eight tropical destinations, including Samoa, to a travel alert about an illness linked with a severe birth defect and spread by mosquitoes.

If you want to know what makes Samoa tick then head along to any of the events at the annual Teuila Festival.

Samoa is waking up to survey the damage after Cyclone Tuni battered the Pacific nation overnight.

Chiefs assistant coach Andrew Strawbridge, who suffered a serious eye infection while in Samoa, has thanked the public for the $65,000 raised for the hospital.

The meeting house has been built in Mangere, South Auckland, as part of a new multimillion-dollar complex belonging to the Government of Samoa.

The father-of-two's partner of six years shared her grief on Facebook saying, "It's not ok that you left us so soon and especially without saying goodbye."

A Givealittle appeal raising funds to provide medical equipment at Samoa's Moto'otua National Hospital intensive care unit have surpassed $54,000.

More than 20 years have passed since Manu Samoa caused one of the Rugby World Cup's greatest upsets - beating Wales in the Pacific nation's tournament debut.

World rugby needs another seismic shift to force the top nations to once again get serious about creating a genuinely global game.