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Vasa Fia Collins opens up about the heartbreak of losing him, the struggles of grief, and the powerful legacy he left behind in an exclusive interview with RNZ Pacific.

Pacific leaders have, in recent times, scaled up their calls for freer movement of people within the region, and Teanau Tuiono wants to make it a reality. Audio

"The misuse of haka to push colonial agendas is perversely ironic," says Eru Kapa-Kingi.

Sir Collin Tukuitonga, the lead researcher of the report, says New Zealand national response to the pandemic relied too much on conventional delivery and 'one size should fit everyone'.

More than 30 per cent of Pasifika live in overcrowded homes, facing complex issues stemming from cultural values clashing with a housing market that favours smaller, high-profit properties.

The plan reveals flagship policies - such as Electrify NZ and the aim of having 10,000 EV chargers by 2030 - will have a comparatively tiny impact on emissions over the next five years.

Māori Public Health said the plan in its current state will not have the substantive impact that Māori and Pacific communities desperately need.

After many long nights and tears, a business owner is celebrating her babywear company's second anniversary alongside the launch of a pop up store in Auckland.

A Pasifika community leader, based in Auckland said he has seen a drop in community engagement by the Ministry for Pacific Peoples since the workforce was slashed.

Conversations on the Edges of Rooms is a compilation album from 12 Christchurch Pacific artists sharing original songs across a variety of genres.

Under the new law, only those born within the specified time frame are eligible, leaving children and grandchildren of these individuals without a pathway.

With young Pasifika "falling through the cracks", health advocates say there is an urgent need for community-focused vaping education and policy reform.

The HMNZS Manawanui grounded and sank off the coast of Samoa as a result of human error, an interim report has found.

An ocean-going tug and barge are due to depart New Zealand this week and head to Samoa to assist with the sunken HMNZ Manawanui.

A New Zealand-born Samoan academic has become the first student of Pacific Island heritage to be awarded a PhD in physiotherapy. Audio

The annual secondary school festival, which began in Ōtara in 1976 to celebrate Pacific and Indigenous culture, has grown into one of the largest Pacific festivals in the world.

But both the Chief of Navy and the Samoan government say community engagement is being led by local authorities. Audio

Greens MP Teanau Tuiono told RNZ Pacific that anyone born in Samoa between 1924 and 1948 can apply for citizenship.

Explainer - New Zealand's Parliament will, on Wednesday, hear the third and final reading of a bill that will, if passed, restore a pathway for citizenship to a group of Samoans stripped of it decades…

Terence Wood from the Australian National University's Development Policy Centre says: "If I were the leader of Pacific country, I'd be asking myself what's going on here."