A New Zealand scientist is leading a team to Scotland's Loch Ness lake, where they will conduct DNA tests to determine what species live there.
New Zealand's popular Prime Minister John Key stunned the nation when he announced, in a breaking voice, he was resigning after eight years as leader.
Fiji is grappling with an outbreak of dengue fever, but authorities say tourists visiting tropical beaches face little risk.
The South Pacific nation had its warmest winter since record-keeping began more than a century ago, say scientists.
It's been lauded as one of the greatest survival stories of all-time. Nearly 100 years later, a group of adventurers discovered why.
The spade-toothed beaked whale is so rare that nobody has seen one alive, but experts are sure the species exists.
Officials hope higher taxes and new restrictions will bring the nation of 4. 4 million closer to a recent pledge to snuff out the habit entirely by 2025.
So far, an estimated 30 tons of oil or fuel have leaked into the Bay of Plenty from the Liberia-flagged Rena which struck a reef.
The president of the Pacific island nation of Kiribati is considering ideas as strange as building a floating island to combat climate change.
The wayward emperor penguin known to the world as Happy Feet has left a New Zealand zoo on the first leg of his journey back home.
Officials say an Antarctic penguin that wound up stranded on a New Zealand beach and eating sand is recovering after a very human treatment.