Missing yachtie likely to be sailing his tiny catamaran to Australia, where he has disappeared with his 6-year-old daughter Que previously, according to an expert.

A family getaway to Vanuatu finds relaxation and the real deal, writes Sam Aldred.

After two years living in New Zealand, a sailing trip to Vanuatu ended with Doug Nash's wife dying in his arms.

Sam Aldred checks into the Holiday Inn, Vanuatu.

Rotary is more than just a group that puts up park benches and runs sausages sizzles outside local hardware shops. Rotary's humanitarian

Whether you want to live it up, chow down, take the heat or just chill, Port Vila has what you want, writes Shandelle Battersby.

Maria de Jong saddles up with with Wayne and trepidation for a plantation trek.

Shandelle Battersby enjoys a day of thrilling adventures on - and under - the water.

Shandelle Battersby gets down and dirty on Vanuatu's main island and has a fabulous time.

It was the wettest holiday I can remember. It was as wet as a shag, a wet week, a wet bus ticket nearly all the time and it couldn't have come at a better, wetter time.

Six men have been jailed after leading a 100-strong mob armed with weapons to a lodge owned by a New Zealander in Vanuatu.

A slightly concerned Carly Flynn meets some of Vanuatu's 'harmless' locals and comes home utterly charmed.

Ned Lowe, 18, was charged with the intentional homicide of his friend Roger Kamisak, 18, on Tanna Island in July 2015.

We smelt the inside of the Earth long before we saw it. It stormed up our nostrils, scorched our sinuses like a giant helping of wasabi, and made us cough and splutter.

The drowning of a NZ-based doctor scuba diving in Vanuatu has prompted a coroner to issue safety warnings to those exploring the water.

The perfect place to see a volcano erupt is high in the banyan treetops of Vanuatu, writes Peter de Graaf.

A 7.1 magnitude earthquake has struck about 46km northeast of Port Olry in Vanuatu.

A New Zealander living in Vanuatu has appeared in court today facing charges for murdering a local man in what police describe as a vicious, drunken fight over a girl.

Good food, waterfalls and gorgeous beaches are great reasons to visit Vanuatu, writes Megan Singleton.

The Ministry for the Environment has released figures showing that carbon pollution, which New Zealand is adding to, increased 42 per cent globally.

A woman behind a quilt drive for victims of Cyclone Pam will deliver more than 700 blankets to Vanuatu when she arrives at the devastated island nation on Saturday.

Further New Zealand aid has arrived in Vanuatu to help in the aftermath of Cyclone Pam.

The death toll from the "monster storm" has risen to 16 and aid agencies have begun a measles vaccination campaign to contain the virus.

A week on from Cyclone Pam some sense of normality has returned - at least in the capital, Port Vila.

A Red Cross leader labelled Polyfest 'cold and mean-spirited' after it initially refused to let the charity collect at the event for Pacific victims of Cyclone Pam.

It was a tale of two villages. In one, rice, food and water provided by aid agencies, in another, nothing at all.