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Becoming the world's first dark sky country could be a boon for small communities and encourage more visitors to travel outside peak season.

Green Rush - Rich-listers, established farming families and a former All Black are among New Zealand's top 50 landowners.

There have been significant changes over the past 40 years in where New Zealanders live and what they do for a living, a new report shows.

One of China's vice-premiers will visit Samoa next week to attend a regional development forum.

About 15 percent of visitors are still entering the country without the Electronic Travel Authority that became "obligatory" on 1 October.

The tourism industry is calling for vigilance after discovering visitors are being scammed by fake visa processing websites.

Tourist visas for Saudi Arabia are now available online and on arrival to holidaymakers and include a health insurance fee, allow multiple entries and stays of up to three months.

Stats NZ has upped the ante when it comes to data collection - should we be worried? 

Kirsten Wise will be Napier's new mayor, beating former Napier MP Chris Tremain by more than 8000 votes.

Phil Goff says the priorities for his next term are climate change, infrastructure and looking at the council structure. Video

A Bluff tourism operator says the Supreme Court's decision that shark cage diving is legal has saved his business from closing down.

The Prime Minister has greeted American comedian Stephen Colbert at Auckland Airport this morning, as she promised to do when she appeared with the host on The Late Show in New York last month.

Australia should help Manus Island develop industries like tourism, a journalist who covers refugee detention in Papua New Guinea says. Audio

Ruapehu district businesses and health services are bracing for the long-term closure of the main highway between Whanganui and Raetihi.

Prominent Christchurch businessmen have thrown their weight behind councillor Deon Swiggs, questioning the timing of leaks to the media.

Miss Samoa 2019 is taking up her duties in Apia and hopes to use her new platform to help prevent measles from spreading to the island nation. Video

The Marshall Islands extended its declaration of a national health emergency for another month Friday as dengue fever cases continue to mount.

Recent weeks have seen the most concentrated climate change coverage in New Zealand's history but it was still eclipsed by coverage of the Rugby World Cup.