Fiji is on alert as a the first major tropical storm of the season approaches.

'Those in Fiji should immediately begin preparing for a major weather event.'

The first cyclone of the year is on its way - and the north may be in the firing line.

The infected man had flown to Vanuatu from the US via Auckland, official says.

COMMENT: Can the Pacific Islands safely become a part of NZs travel bubble?

He was on his way home to Vanuatu when he landed in Wellington. And there he stayed.

Foreign Minister Winston Peters announced $500,000 in funding to help their Government.

The Voyager of the Seas cruise ship docked in Tauranga this morning.

MetService's computer model suggests the cyclone, if formed, could be felt in New Zealand.

On Pentecost Island, traditional practice goes back centuries.

100 PNG soldiers will be sent to Australia in efforts to fight bush fires.

If it forms it will be named Tropical Cyclone Sarai.

Notorious sex offender Ronald Van Der Plaat has been back before the courts

The new Vanuatu National Eye Centre in Port Vila is now open for business.

Vanuatu has a new eye clinic and the country's first permanent eye doctor.

Clerence Natnaur, from Vanuatu, hopes to have surgery to better her eyesight.

Girl has made remarkable recovery, but needs lifelong care and expensive medication.

Readers donate $155,000 for eye care in Vanuatu after Herald-Fred Hollows campaign.

Celebrity chef Michael Meredith holds cooking demo in diabetes-ravaged Vanuatu

Watch our livestream debate about the causes of diabetes in the Pacific and how to help.

Ill diabetic clergyman urges others to be careful what they eat in his final sermon.

Superstition: Vanuatu eye doctors must overcome traditional ways to help diabetics.

Diabetics from Tanna Island in Vanuatu fear going blind.

$2.1 million eye clinic funded by Fred Hollows Foundation to open in Vanuatu.

How diabetes crippled and blinded a strong man.