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Slips and flooding closed key highways in the South Island while winds played havoc with transport in Wellington.

Heavy rain on the West Coast has caused flooding on some roads, and MetService is warning there is worse to come.

Pacific Island countries have renewed their calls for US president-elect Donald Trump to reconsider his stance on climate change.

Samoa's Lupe Ole Soaga football team has every reason to be confident of qualifying for the OFC Champions League group stage, if their coach is to be believed.

Having made an impressive debut to the OFC Champions League in 2015, Samoan football club Lupe Ole Soaga are confident of making a return to the 2017 edition.

Volunteers restoring damaged headstones of Cook Islands Anzac soldiers are appealing to the government for help. Audio

The Cook Islands Chamber of Commerce says it is concerned about the signals a proposed amnesty, on penalties for not paying tax, sends to taxpayers.

Traditional leaders and environmentalists in the Cook Islands are accusing the government of reneging on a commitment to establish 93km buffer zones around all islands.

The Cook Islands government supports an increase in longliner buffer zones to reduce interaction between commercial and local fishing activity but only to an extent.

Four Pacific Island countries have been identified by Azerbaijan as financial offshore centres from where no company can operate in the country's securities market.

A company surveying the sea floor near Cook Strait says its work is not linked to recent whale strandings.

An opposition party in the Cook Islands says it supports the government's proposal for an amnesty on penalties for not paying tax.

A proposal to establish a state crematorium in the Cook Islands is not being ruled out by the Health and Justice Ministry.

The announced buyout of the telecommunications company BlueSky by Fiji's Amalgamated Telecom Holdings is still being reviewed by Samoan officials.

A tax amnesty promised by the Cook Islands Prime Minister in a Christmas message will most likely require a law change to be properly administered.

Tourists and locals swimming in drinking water intakes in the Cook Islands has prompted serious heath concerns.

Seismic detectors could be causing whale strandings, Sea Shepherd says, and it wants oil companies that own the devices to pay to research it.

Pacific people have been recognised for services to their communities in the New Year Honours list, with two receiving the highest honour.

A sperm whale that beached near Nelson looked too healthy to have died of natural causes, a zoologist says.

The carcass of the sperm whale that was spotted in Nelson's Tasman Bay yesterday was found washed ashore at Rabbit Island today.

The Cook Islands' tourism industry is on track to cap off 2016 with record-breaking visitor arrival numbers for October.