Recently sacked Solomon Islands Finance Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo says further resignations from Cabinet are coming.

Solomon Islands has asked Pacific Islands Forum members to consider separating external dialogue partners from the annual leaders' meeting.

Melanesian countries are pushing Indonesia to facilitate a long-requested visit to West Papua by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

While a US-New Zealand-funded port upgrade in the Cook Islands is being welcomed as a vital infrastructure project, a landowner and an environmental group are raising transparency concerns.

The Tokelau community is mourning Neil Walter, a New Zealand career diplomat, who served multiple times as the administrator to Tokelau.

The school remains open as a result of a High Court challenge by the board.

A doctor at Auckland’s Middlemore Hospital says 103 patients were queuing at 11.15pm on Wednesday, waiting to be seen by just seven doctors.

Market pressures are mounting on New Zealand's small but significant agricultural seed and grain sectors, considered vital to the $64 billion food and fibre industries.

Dozens of aftershocks have been recorded in the lower South Island after a string of earthquakes that struck near Milford Sound on Wednesday night.

St John ambulance says one person is in a serious condition and the other is in a moderate condition.