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Nov 1, 2016 - North Otago town Oamaru is known for its impressive Victorian limestone buildings and - increasingly - its association with steampunk.

Nov 28, 2025 - Market Update for 28 November 2025

Nov 26, 2025 - Over 700 paddlers from around the world are in Rarotonga this week to compete in the biggest week of paddling on the Cook Islands sporting calendar.

Nov 29, 2025 - The national airline reports software updates are near fully completed.

Nov 27, 2025 - The K$30.9 billion spending plan, unveiled earlier this week, has been characterised by analysts as highly political and aligned with next year's election...

Sep 27, 2025 - A Samoan caregiver is using social media to highlight the realities of caring for someone with dementia.

Nov 26, 2025 - "The cost of violence is not only emotional - it is national."

Aug 31, 2018 - The man who revealed state sponsored doping in Russia says corruption in sport will never be completely eradicated. Bryan Fogel directed the Academy Award...

Nov 27, 2025 - President Xi Jinping pledged fresh investment in Tonga when he met King Tupou VI in Beijing on Tuesday.

Oct 14, 2023

Oct 15, 2025 - The official cyclone season for the region runs from November to April.

Nov 26, 2025 - A controversial Commission of Inquiry into Barbara Malimali's appointment alleged that she spread confidential voter information while on the job.

Apr 8, 2021 - The government has announced a ban on any new coal-fired boilers from the end of this year and a phasing out of existing ones by 2037.

Nov 26, 2025 - The Samoan man was arrested and charged with importing 1.4kg of methamphetamine hidden inside a box of frozen chicken on Saturday.

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Nov 28, 2025 - Nauru has celebrated a decision by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development that may have saved it from losing tens of millions in aid.

Feb 20, 2026 - A Manawatū woman is just days away from a full stomach reconstruction five months after a weight-loss operation in Turkey went wrong.

Apr 5, 2023 - It's not unusual for drivers to work 14 hour days at little better than the minimum wage.

Nov 28, 2025 - Staff at Air New Zealand in the Cook Islands say changes to working conditions and employment agreements is a breach to the island's employment laws.

Nov 28, 2025 - Feature - Eleven-year-old Bruce Satchell is proud to hail from seven different cultures.

Apr 29, 2020

Nov 29, 2025 - One person is dead after a vehicle crashed into water in Wairoa.

Nov 25, 2025 - The Cook Islands government says it is working to stabilise its strained relationship with New Zealand, but not at the cost of its independence.

Nov 23, 2021 - Katy Gosset speaks to a PhD student who is designing new tech to catch predato,rs with the hope of returning bird song to the bush.

Nov 29, 2025 - Vanuatu opposition leader accuses govt of being lazy; Pacific content creators win big at theTiktok awards; Pacific news wrap with Koroi Hawkins.

Nov 29, 2025 - The student dove under a desk, crying and swearing after the incident.

Nov 29, 2025 - Initial indications were that one person had been seriously injured.

Sep 30, 2025 - Pacific Island leaders took turns addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York, speaking on a range of issues - from local to global - that...

Nov 26, 2025 - The Ministry of Health says the traveller, who is a close contact of a New Zealand measles case, arrived in the country on 22 November.

Jan 31, 2019 - The role of New Zealand government officials in lobbying to have a fishing vessel taken off an international black list is being questioned.

Nov 27, 2025 - A round-up of news from around the region, including new meth laws in Solomon Islands.

Nov 25, 2025 - The outcomes of the United Nations climate conference in Brazil means global temperature rise will not be limited to 1.5C - the threshold climate scientists...

Nov 27, 2025 - A round-up of sports news from around the region, including Samoa and Tonga to comepete in the first World Rugby Nations Cup.

Apr 6, 2023 - An RNZ investigation reveals the extraordinary scale of disruption bus commuters encounter every day.

Apr 11, 2024 - The hormone drugs are under increasing scrutiny internationally, with Britain's National Health Service last month banning their routine use outside of...

Wrapping up the big Pacific news, issues, information & music each week.