Lucy Cooper

A loaf of bread used to travel up to 2,000 kilometres by truck and train to Normanton in Queensland's outback — then someone had an idea.

Plans to restart the collapsed national airline Air Vanuatu have raised concern among business and tourism leaders who say it shouldn't operate international flights again.

Nearly 100 years ago, pottery was taken from a cave on Panaeati Island, in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. Now, it's been returned to the local community after an archaeologist happened to stumble across a box in a storeroom in an "uncannily lucky" stroke of luck.

Just one month after being handed over, a patrol boat given to the Fiji Navy by Australia has been damaged while docking.

It has been nearly a week since a seven point three magnitude earthquake rocked Vanuatu's capital Port Vila, leaving buildings flattened, impacting electricity and communications, contaminating water, causing  landslips, and displacing families.

As wet season looms in northern Australia, the stockpiling of food in pantries and freezers is underway. Here's how the experts prepare for the big wet.

Women in the Pacific are 14 times more likely to die from cervical cancer than in Australia, but there are hopes a record philanthropic donation will change that.

One of the key themes for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting this week is "a resilient environment" — and King Charles has long promoted climate change mitigation.

India has been quietly engaging with the island nations of the Pacific for a decade, and those efforts are increasing.

Mining companies hope to begin mining the sea floor for valuable metals soon — upping the stakes at a vote for the top role at the international regulator.