The intensifying El Niño phase is forecast to bring exceptionally warm tropical Pacific Ocean conditions in coming months.

A leading West Papua pro-independence group has questioned Indonesia's assertion that a proposed visit by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to West Papua is on track.

A new study highlights the important role Faebook plays in influencing public debate around sorcery accusation-related violence in communities in Papua New Guinea.

Five Oceania nations will battle in Nuku'alofa next week for two remaining Netball World Cup spots, with hosts Tonga entering the qualifier as favourites alongside Samoa.

A tropical storm warning has been issued for Oahu, as the category 3 hurricane bears down on the state.

People are just being left behind by New Zealand's drug buying system, says a public health professor.

Counsel are testifying on the second day of proceedings in a Judicial Review of the decision not to charge the officer who fired the fatal shot.

Police were attending an unrelated incident when a man became enraged, threatened police, then locked himself inside a residence and refused to leave.

In reading, New Zealand reached a new low of 497, caused by a fall in boys’ scores in the international Pisa tests.

A man has appeared in court charged with assaulting a person in a family relationship after a woman and two children were killed in Rotorua last night.