Oceania News

Life expectancy is rising and infant mortality is falling for Maori, but they and Pasifika families still suffer more diseases linked to poverty than other groups, writes James Ihaka in the second of a four-part Herald series on closing our ethnic gaps.

SOLAR BOOST: SPCA Southland operations manager Richard Hay checks the six inverters that tell him how much power has been generated by the solar panels powering the building.

Resident Seven Sharp funny guy Jesse Mulligan has a new gig - he's fronting Best Bits , TVNZ's attempt at a comedy panel show which debuted last year with Te Radar in the hosting role.

Holidaymakers were advised to take extra precautions to avoid being being bitten by mosquitoes, Auckland Regional Public Health Service said.

Scientists will be better able to monitor water quality in Kaipara Harbour after new state-of-the-art equipment is installed there next month.

The New Zealand Festival welcomed the world to Wellington over 24 days of arts events across the city.

New Zealand's prime minister has announced voters could have the chance to get rid of their country's current flag and get a new design.

Rising vacancy rates in top-tier Indianapolis office spaces has sparked a renewed effort to keep existing tenants happy and attract new ones.

Busy Taupo restaurant and bar can be kept going as it is, or developed to broaden its appeal in a thriving location A Taupo restaurant and bar, owned and run by some of the town's hospitality stalwarts, is being sold as a going concern operating from leased premises in the centre of town.

There are two ways you could react to the chart below showing what Australian children prefer to watch on television.

The southern Indian Ocean, where investigators suspect missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 may have come down, is one place where a commercial airliner can crash without a ship spotting it, a radar plotting it or even a satellite picking it up.

Te Tuhi's new show explores the plight of tourist paradise the Maldives Islands as its residents prepare for an enforced exile due to climate change, Adam Gifford writes When Soren Dahlgaard was planning his work for the 2013 Venice Biennale on the effect of climate change on the Maldive Islands, high tides were covering St Mark's Square with a ... (more)

We were just the width of a wobble board away from becoming a state of Australia at the time of that country's federation in 1901.

WE'RE becoming a nation of unit dwellers. With billions worth of developments underway, is it really worth buying off-the-plan? AUSTRALIA is becoming a nation of apartment dwellers with billions worth of developments either underway or proposed within the next five years in our capital cities.

The Union Jack may not last long in the New Zealand flag. NPR's Jacki Lyden talks to journalist Tim Watkin about the flag, which some see as a symbol of British colonialism.

A large python has swallowed a pet dog that was chained up inside its kennel in a backyard in northern New South Wales, Australia.

According to a press release on 13 March 2014 by the Waka Ama NZ, "Rotorua's Blue Lake will play host to 95 schools as they paddle for the national title on their Waka Ama ."

GREENS leader Christine Milne is warning that coast-to-coast conservative governments would represent a "massive attack" on the environment.

Uber summery, electro-pop New Zealanders The Naked and Famous are returning to Cambridge Junction on the last leg of their worldwide In Rolling Waves tour.

In a row reminiscent of a notorious incident just before a key federal poll, the Labor Party has been accused of whipping up racism against a Liberal candidate standing in a marginal seat in today's South Australian election.