The world's largest secondary school cultural festival will be held across two venues this year.

Peter Shanel Agovaka broke party lines and resigned from Cabinet on Monday night, joining a breakaway of ministers and backbenchers in a bid to oust Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele.

New Zealand police will work more with counterparts in Samoa and Tonga to try and stop the flow of illicit drugs through the region.

Pacific Island governments are urging their citizens not to panic about the supply of fuels amid the conflict in the Middle East between Israel, the United States and Iran.

The furore over Christopher Luxon's new matai title is refusing to go away, after local media reported there was a late night phone call saying he didn't want to go ahead with it.

Social media is reshaping how communities access life-saving information during a crisis, according to a Fijian researcher investigating the frontlines of disaster communication.

There were a few surprises in both in New Caledonia and French Polynesia in the first round of polls, and many townships will go back to the polling stations for the second round on Sunday.

Frederick Kologeto, Peoples First Party leader says the opposition has the numbers to oust Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele.

Auckland's Pasifika Festival returned to Western Springs Lakeside Park over the weekend, drawing more than 25,000 people to celebrate the diverse cultures of the Pacific.

New Zealand and Samoa have vowed to do more to combat the flow of drugs through the Pacific, which prime minister Christopher Luxon says has become a "super highway".

Moana Pasifika midfielder Tevita Latu has taken one of the more unusual routes to Super Rugby.

Comments in Apia on Monday by prime ministers of Samoa and New Zealand indicate the compensation amount for the Manawanaui disaster may still be in flux.

Nearly three-quarters of the Pasifika population experienced food insecurity in Aotearoa for the first time last year, according to the inaugaural "Hunger Monitor" by the New Zealand Food Network.

The Vanuatu Football Federation has condemned the "defamatory" headline on the national women's squad.

From his early beginnings to a place with Moana Pasifika in Super Rugby Pacific has been a remarkable journey.

The new digital currency established with the backing of the Marshall Islands government will debut later this month to assist distribution of the country's quarterly universal basic income programme.

Previously, a person 15 years of age could marry with parental consent.