Ross Ardern's new job will move him closer to his daughter, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.

Relics from sinking islands in the South Pacific will soon be on display at Te Papa.

Gene variants that could help explain high rates of gout in Maori and Pacific people.

Three men have been found safe and well after spending more than 30 hours lost in a 5m aluminium dinghy off the coast off Nukunono Atoll in Tokelau.

A Pacific territory vulnerable to sea level rise is the first nation in the world to get 90 per cent of its electricity from renewable sources.

The local boat-building industry is outraged it was not awarded a govt contract to build a ferry. On almost every level, its anger is odd.

Pacific island nations now occupy the top seven places in the World Health Organisation's global obesity rankings.

This is the moment when help came for three Tokelauan teenagers who had been lost at sea for 50 days.

When Tanu Filo heard his son's voice on the phone, he thought it was a miracle.

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.