Sue Baxalle discovers Mystic Sands, mysterious stones and snorkelling pigs.

Charges threaten key independent voice in island nation ahead of next year's elections.

Shandelle Battersby checks into Outrigger Reef Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Anne Gibson visits Rarotonga and Aitutaki on a holiday fit for a Polynesian princess.

Community in Vanuatu rebuilt their toilets in the weeks following Cyclone Pam.

Hidden Pacific: Plastic waste is a plague to sustainable development.

If every ever wanted a hovercraft to burn around in, now's your chance.

Clarke Gayford finds a gulf between everyday life in Papua New Guinea and New Zealand.

NZ Herald Focus discusses the struggles of the people in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

Kiwi rapper Scribe will spend the next month in a rehabilitation facility.

Eleanor Barker checks into a waterfront room on an island kingdom.

We asked you to help people living in poverty in New Zealand's backyard - and you responded.

Settlements around Solomons capital lack power, running water and sanitation.

Kiwi Matthew Davison pitched the idea of getting photos of the inside of the crater.

If you are on a budget there are less-expensive joys to be found, writes Isobel Marriner.

Group savings scheme enables villagers to not only pay for day-to-day

Solomons' sole refuge at frontlines of fight to eliminate gender-based violence in world where woman rank below dogs.

The 42nd ASB Polyfest kicks off in Manukau this morning.

Leaving home is the only option for many as the atoll faces the same fate as five islands that have already disappeared.

The warmth of the people is the winner, writes Guy Heveldt.

A teen's recovery from a second bout of TB is rare bright spot in battle to rein in the disease.

Some 60 per cent of Papua New Guinea's population live in areas where malaria is endemic.

Young Samoan gang members sent back to their home country from New Zealand in a bid to straighten them out, are instead starting gangs there.

A Kiwi scientist meeting in Brazil with world climate experts discusses a new report assessing what an extra 1.5C of warming would mean for the planet.

The sisters are a big deal in their village nicknamed the "Golden Village" for the success of the local weightlifters.

Simon Day looks at how sport can help people out of poverty.

The three little pigs were part of a World Vision economic development project.

Villagers in PNG are changing their own lives, with the assistance of World Vision, reports Clarke Gayford.

Instilling the importance of nutritious food in families is helping improve health in communities blighted by overcrowding.

In the remote Barai village in Madang province, teacher Louis Kumana worries about his school's attendance rate.