Kyle Evans is a reporter with the ABC's Asia Pacific Newsroom. He has worked as a newsreader for ARN and began his career at newspaper titles in North Queensland and Ballarat.
Australia is giving Fiji uncrewed sea drones that can remain on open water for up to six months and use artificial intelligence to identify suspicious activity.
Undersea experts question the viability of deep-sea mining for critical minerals, fearing the only winners will be early investors and the companies selling the machinery.
The man was reportedly on holiday with his family and had been drinking alcohol.
Fiji has free testing and treatment to prevent mothers passing HIV to their babies. Last year, 59 babies were infected anyway, and 18 died before they turned one.
A Constitution Review Commission has recommended removing immunity provisions that protect anyone involved in military coups from facing prosecution.
An Australian resident speaks out about her terrifying experience on a Vanuatu ferry, which sunk last week with about 55 passengers on board.
Dr Turnbull runs a flying doctor service for Vanuatu's northern islands and said his aircraft was well suited to the search, but the delay in the call-up meant it was a race against time.
The drug smuggling trade ravaging some Pacific communities is being fed by Australia's appetites for illegal drugs with seizures more than three times higher than last year.
Travellers in several Pacific countries will now need to pay a bond of up to $27,000 to travel to the US as that government cracks down on overstayers.
The strange patterns of a Chinese research vessel in Palau's waters have raised suspicions China is gathering intelligence for a potential conflict.
Two New Zealand climbers have been rescued after spending six days stranded on the Solomon Islands' highest mountain.
Torrential rain has left two men stranded on the side Solomon Islands' largest mountain.
Six Fiji health workers survive a harrowing ordeal at sea thanks to a former classmate of one of the survivors.
Fijian soldiers have taken part in a live fire exercise alongside Australian troops.
There are signs the Catholic Church is being increasingly targeted by separatist groups in West Papua.
Papua New Guinea's former opposition leader says the government's decision to close Taiwan's trade office in Port Moresby was likely not a geopolitical decision but a financial one.
Deep sea experts have warned the economics underpinning seabed mining don't stack up, as the US moves to secure access to Pacific minerals.
The President of Palau, Surangel Whipps Jr, has accused Beijing of intimidating Pacific Island nations with this week's test firing of a nuclear-capable ballistic missile.
The island of Rota in the Northern Mariana Islands has suffered a direct hit from a Super Typhoon.
There are renewed calls for Australia to sign a treaty ensuring nuclear weapons can't ever be facilitated, stored or manufactured in Australia.
Anti-nuclear activists have marched on Canberra in effort to keep nuclear weapons out of the region Pacific.
Tensions are rising between Vanuatu and France as they negotiate a sovereignty dispute over two volcanic islands, believed to be inhabited by a god.
An Australian soldier born in PNG has been deployed to his place of birth to help clear explosives left over from World War II.
As calls for deep sea mining grow louder, dozens of research vessels are on a quest to map the sea floor in strategically vital regions. While some of the surveying is for mineral deposits and fishing grounds, there's fears it might also be done for military purposes.
Efforts to stop crime and drug trafficking in the Pacific have ramped up with Australia committing millions to help train a crew of Pacific crime fighters to track the financial footprints of criminals.
