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Panic in Vanuatu after tsunami warning

Scenes of panic are reported in Vanuatu after several earthquakes sparked a tsunami warning.

NZ tsunami warning still in force - Civil Defence

Civil Defence says a tsunami threat remains in place for NZ despite the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre cancelling its warning.

Latest updates: Vanuatu quake, tsunami warning

Sporting legends return to homeland

Mourners farewell beloved firefighter

The NZ volunteer firefighter killed while alerting people in Samoa to last week's tsunami has been remembered in Apia.

Govt paying for baby's mercy flight

The Ministry of Health will today send an air ambulance from Auckland on a mercy flight to pick up a baby born prematurely in Samoa.

Scramble to save baby born after tsunami

A baby born prematurely after his mother fled the tsunami may die in Samoa if his parents can't raise $100,000 needed to fly him back to NZ.

Record floods follow record drought

Long wait for isolated Tongans

Regular guests rally to start rebuild

A NZ couple are appealing for former guests of a Lalomanu resort to offer tools and expertise to rebuild it after the tsunami.

Parents' glimmer of hope becomes sorrow

Mother tells of fight to save children taken by tsunami

Salamasina Ale Taufua should be dead. She has bruises, deep cuts and welts on her body.

Resort's grand plans reduced to rubble

Tsunami: Looting hardest to take – NZ victim

A NZ woman whose home and possessions were washed away by the tsunami found the looting that followed tougher to deal with.

Tsunami condolence books set up

Sea no longer the same - tsunami victims' parents

The parents of two girls killed in Samoa's tsunami describe their ordeal as New Zealand's death toll rises to seven.