Fiji's HIV epidemic is worsening with infections up more than 25 per cent from the previous year.

The referral of PNG's Chief Justice, Sir Gibbs Salika, to the public prosecutor for failing to declare additional income has sparked heated debate on social media.

PNG's franchise in Australia's National Rugby League competition continues to take shape with the selection of a site for the team to live.

Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court has quashed most of the convictions against the senior bureaucrat at the centre of the country's biggest corruption case. 

Ash fall from the Manaro Volcano has destroyed food gardens and spoiled water supplies for communities on Vanuatu's Ambae Island. 

People on Vanuatu's Ambae Island have been warned to prepare to evacuate their homes as the Manaro Volcano continues to rumble.

PNG national elections, held every five years, have been deeply troubled, marred by violence, corruption and fraud, particularly in the volatile highlands.

Pacific Islanders in Dubai say the past few days have been incredibly scary, watching missiles streak across the sky and explode as air defences intercept them overhead.

Papua New Guinea turns to Australia for help to evacuate its citizens from the United Arab Emirates in the wake of the US-Israeli attacks on Iran.  

A prominent Fijian lawyer is warning of a constitutional crisis if the president doesn't follow through on the advice of the Judicial Legal Services Commission and sack the head of the Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption.