Snorkelling in an emerald lagoon
Shandelle Battersby enjoys a day of thrilling adventures on - and under - the water.
Shandelle Battersby enjoys a day of thrilling adventures on - and under - the water.
Shandelle Battersby gets down and dirty on Vanuatu's main island and has a fabulous time.
Shandelle Battersby checks in to Iririki Island Resort and Spa, Port Vila, Vanuatu.
It was the wettest holiday I can remember. It was as wet as a shag, a wet week, a wet bus ticket nearly all the time and it couldn't have come at a better, wetter time.
Six men have been jailed after leading a 100-strong mob armed with weapons to a lodge owned by a New Zealander in Vanuatu.
A slightly concerned Carly Flynn meets some of Vanuatu's 'harmless' locals and comes home utterly charmed.
Ned Lowe, 18, was charged with the intentional homicide of his friend Roger Kamisak, 18, on Tanna Island in July 2015.
We smelt the inside of the Earth long before we saw it. It stormed up our nostrils, scorched our sinuses like a giant helping of wasabi, and made us cough and splutter.
A 7.1 magnitude earthquake has struck about 46km northeast of Port Olry in Vanuatu.
A New Zealander living in Vanuatu has appeared in court today facing charges for murdering a local man in what police describe as a vicious, drunken fight over a girl.
A newly married Muslim couple are sharing their wedding gifts with the people of Vanuatu, hoping to set up a sustainable water pump in a remote island village.
Diana Balham comes face to face with a very angry - but very pretty - volcano on the Vanuatu island of Tanna.
Good food, waterfalls and gorgeous beaches are great reasons to visit Vanuatu, writes Megan Singleton.
The Ministry for the Environment has released figures showing that carbon pollution, which New Zealand is adding to, increased 42 per cent globally.
A woman behind a quilt drive for victims of Cyclone Pam will deliver more than 700 blankets to Vanuatu when she arrives at the devastated island nation on Saturday.
Further New Zealand aid has arrived in Vanuatu to help in the aftermath of Cyclone Pam.
The death toll from the "monster storm" has risen to 16 and aid agencies have begun a measles vaccination campaign to contain the virus.
A week on from Cyclone Pam some sense of normality has returned - at least in the capital, Port Vila.
A Red Cross leader labelled Polyfest 'cold and mean-spirited' after it initially refused to let the charity collect at the event for Pacific victims of Cyclone Pam.
It was a tale of two villages. In one, rice, food and water provided by aid agencies, in another, nothing at all.
The deputy chairman of Vanuatu's natural disaster committee has launched a stinging attack on NGOs in the cyclone-struck nation.
New Zealand aid worker Andrew Finlay takes Kirsty Johnston around the island of Tanna, where the destruction is wholesale.
The threat of disease from dirty water has affected "absolutely everybody" in Vanuatu in the wake of Cyclone Pam.
The first aid planes arrived to find scenes of "utter destruction" on the Vanuatu island of Tanna, where residents are in desperate need of emergency supplies.
The first aid planes arrived to find scenes of "utter destruction" on the Vanuatu island of Tanna, four days after taking a direct hit from Cyclone Pam.
Doctors at the hospital performed an emergency caesarean in the middle of the cyclone - and delivered a baby they named Pamela.
Families in Vanuatu have returned to their homes only to find the nightmare of Cyclone Pam isn't over.