World rugby sevens champions Manu Samoa returned home yesterday to a joyous celebration of their achievement.

Sam Morgan has invested $700,000 in a Pacific Island-based microfinance company.

The island of Samoa is beginning to let some of its environmental commitments slide.

Tsunami-wrecked houses in Samoa are being rebuilt on higher ground - but without protection against cyclones or earthquakes, engineers say.

Samoa's prime minister says the Pacific Islands Forum HQ doesn't belong in Suva any more.

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

Samoan writer Lani Wendt Young has been commissioned to take down the stories of hundreds of people affected by the Pacific tsunami.

If the shadow of climate change has hung over previous albums by this pan-Pacific group then it is hard to hear some of this without thinking of last year's tsunami.

Alanah May Eriksen travels to the island nation just a couple of months after the September tsunami which destroyed the southeast coast of Upolu and discovers the tourist industry is in full swing.