Health services working with family and church at centre of typhoid outbreak.

Auckland's confirmed number of typhoid cases remains at 18 today.

Samoan health officials have issued an alert, warning people to get tested for typhoid.

Health minister learned about the typhoid outbreak when watching the news.

Young Samoan gang members sent back to their home country from New Zealand in a bid to straighten them out, are instead starting gangs there.

Religious woman booked 134 flights over two years - and paid nothing.

Miller Patane's long lost sister "bawled her eyes out" when she saw her long lost brother's photo in the Herald after he was given food by newlyweds.

All Black lock Patrick Tuipulotu will take on a fresh challenge in the new year, having been named a family chief in Samoa this week. The

World boxing champion Joseph Parker says a young Samoan man with Down Syndrome will be part of his ring walk for the rest of his heavyweight career.

An airport quarantine officer got a horrifying surprise when he opened a passenger's chilly bin.

Valerie Adams has arrived in Samoa as part of her travels as New Zealand's first Pacific Sports Ambassador.

Police are appealing for witnesses to a crash which left a talented and loving father of five dead.

A Samoan family is in mourning after a talented and loving father of five died in a car crash.

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.

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.

Apia Airport has the air of an open-air market but with fewer food stalls.

We don't need to tell you that July in New Zealand is a weather bomb.

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.