A round-up of news from around the region, including concerns over seasonal work in New Zealand and Australia.

Vanuatu, site of a major U.S. naval base in the Pacific War, was also a vital venue for China's "undercover infrastructures," ...

A group of dedicated case workers and police officers in NSW are helping to give Pacific youth offenders a sense of community ...

Few hotels deliver as strong a sensory hit—of decor, ambience, food—as the three Royal Mansours owned by King Mohammed VI in ...

A perch on the Pacific? A sandy hideaway in Spain ? We love all these new beachy places ... Built into a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean near Oaxaca, it has six suites and a one-bedroom ...

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake that rocked the bottom of the South Island struck in a seismic environment poorly understood by scientists – but which poses a major tsunami hazard. The 2.43pm quake hit ...

SpaceX kicked off 2025 by continuing its record-breaking pace of Falcon 9 launches while also setting new firsts with its ...

2,000 feet under the ocean's surface. Kat Bolstad, a marine biologist at New Zealand's Auckland University of Technology who specializes in the glass squid family, later confirmed that the ...

A thin white smile curves across the blank face of the South Pacific Ocean, more than a mile below ... are exploiting the crisis to gain entry to New Zealand and Australia. Others have even ...