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Ashburton District Council operates with transparency, despite many workshops taking place behind doors closed to the public in the last financial year, its chief executive says.

New research claims to show the extent and scale of Saudi Arabian state investment and involvement in sport for the first time.

The Fiji government, with the backing of the United Kingdom and the United Nations Development Programme, has launched the country's first ever sovereign blue bond.

In a rare interview, China's Consul in French Polynesia, Tian Lixiao has told local media his country was in favour of a direct air link with Tahiti.

A legal expert says fines and reparations for the firms involved in the Whakaari/White Island cases will likely be in the millions. Audio

Nauru's new elected President David Adeang has taken his oath and named his cabinet members, including former president Lionel Aingimea as the Minister for Justice.

The West Coast as a region may not be growing significantly but its population is changing.

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.

A proposal to introduce a targeted charge for Airbnb operators in South Wairarapa is proving contentious for the region.

Businesses in the Commonwealth of Northern Marianas are calling on the US Department of Transportation to exempt the territory from the cap on the number of scheduled flights from China.

Casino operator SkyCity continues to expect a modest increase in underlying earnings, despite a boost from the recent FIFA Women's World Cup.

At least 27 people were killed by Hurricane Otis, which made landfall on Mexico's Pacific coast on Wednesday, officials say.

The book that was for many years a travellers’ bible turns 50 this year. But with instant information available anywhere, how will Lonely Planet keep up?

A Victoria University in Wellington academic believes tourism poses more risk for Samoa landowners and suggests agriculture as a better alternative for commercialisation of customary land.

Small businesses are facing declining sales in a challenging trading environment, but jobs growth remains strong.

Business owners and councillors say antisocial behaviour in the city centre has gotten out of control and they want the streets' rough sleepers, drinkers and drug dealers to be moved on.

Road freight movements have hit a spring pothole, easing off the highs seen a month prior.

People who travel between Auckland and Waiheke Island are celebrating promised savings, with a new ferry operator making waves in the Hauraki Gulf. Audio

An iwi ranger on the Far North's Karikari Peninsula says a furore over a beach access road is highlighting wider problems of vehicle damage to dunes and sacred places.

Beneath the surface of the Pacific record numbers of humpback whales make their way south on an annual migration - a population bouncing back from the 'brink of extinction' due to whaling.

Incoming cruise ship passengers will be bussed straight from Lyttelton's port to Christchurch.

One of the matters on the table for Papua New Guinea's prime minister James Marape during his visit to Beijing is establishing for both countries to trade in their own currencies.