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New Zealand Defence Force aircraft are spending hundreds of expensive hours every year looking for missing fishing boats and ferries in the Pacific. Audio

Pacific islands will receive the bulk of New Zealand's increased foreign aid budget, announced this evening by its Foreign Minister Winston Peters.

New Zealand is to send accident investigators to help investigate the sinking of the MV Butiraoi in Kiribati.

More aid money should be put towards sustainable shipping in the region to avoid tragedies like the recent Kiribati ferry disaster, according to Pacific maritime researcher Peter Nuttall.

A summit next week in Majuro will bring together the leaders of the eight nations that control waters where most of the world's skipjack tuna is caught.

UNICEF says the rate of newborn deaths in Kiribati, Papua New Guinea and the Federated States of Micronesia remains alarmingly high.

Calls by Pacific leaders for action on protecting oceans have ratcheted up a notch in recent days in Suva.

Australia has defended its border protection policies at a refugee and migration summit in New York.

Pacific island countries have called for help in dealing with refugees at a major UN gathering in New York.

The 47th Pacific Islands Forum summit begins today in Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia.

Police in New Zealand hope new Pacific coordinators will help reduce the number of Pacific people in prison, and increase the number of Pasifika police officers. Video

TVNZ has secured exclusive rights to broadcast the 2018 Commonwealth Games in New Zealand in a deal that with also benefit the Pacific Islands.

Pacific Island nations have told the United Nations climate change summit in Paris they are already feeling the effects of climate change and urgent action is needed. Audio

Papua New Guinean Loa Dika Toua has emerged with the best result of the Pacific contingent at the IWF World Weightlifting Championships in Houston.

Australian media reports say Canberra is in talks with the Philippines for a transfer of some of the refugees it earlier sent to Papua New Guinea.

Australia's immigration minister Peter Dutton says Canberra is in negotiations to find new third party resettlement options for its refugees, whom Australia refuses to settle itself.

Australian cabinet minister Peter Dutton has been labelled morally irresponsible and arrogant after he was overheard quipping about the plight of Pacific countries facing rising sea levels from…

The Pacific Islands Forum in Port Moresby has concluded without unity on climate change, but with signs of a new approach to fisheries management.

The President of Palau Tommy Remengesau says the Pacific Islands Forum needs to come together on the issue of climate change.

Papua New Guinea has pledged US$1.8 million US dollars to Vanuatu for immediate disaster relief and recovery funding following the devastation from Cyclone Pam.