Pacific

A Base Woodbourne metalwork instructor has been named New Zealand Defence Force Volunteer of the Year for his work with young people and Marlborough’s Pasifika community.

A new health report has emphasised that underfunding and a lack of healthcare workers are main challenges facing parts of the Pacific region.

An ocean-going tug and barge are due to depart New Zealand this week and head to Samoa to assist with the sunken HMNZ Manawanui.

Pacific solidarity drives historic UN recognition of France’s human rights violations in the struggle for self-determination and decolonisation in New Caledonia.

Polyfest will remain in Ōtara for the 50th anniversary after the local board offered $64,500 to fill a funding shortfall.

Flags soared during Wednesday’s Hīkoi across the Harbour Bridge, not just the Tino Rangatiratanga, but Pacific flags flying proudly alongside them.

Over 30 years the French government tested 193 nuclear weapons in Māohi Nui and today Indigenous peoples still suffer the impacts through intergenerational cancers.

Academics, New Zealand’s US ambassador, and Guam’s Congressman have weighed in on what the election means for the Pacific.

The group had only this morning landed in the country and were on the way to their new jobs in Hawke’s Bay when their bus rolled near Taupō.

Pacific people are disproportionately impacted by the housing crisis, but there’s also heartening signs of improvement in statistics, a new report shows.