Latest and Most Recent News from Oceania

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Even the least observant of visitors to Hawke's Bay could not fail to notice the numbers of people on bicycles.

Source: Editorial: Support grows for velodrome

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Gary, Rob and Liz Cameron. I feel like I'm a contestant on The Amazing Race," I yelled down the phone to Glenda Neil, the Northland-based wine consultant who'd put together my three-day itinerary.

Source: Small but beautiful where history began

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Air New Zealand has no plans to ground its fleet of Dash 8 aircraft after a nose wheel failure yesterday, the second in just over four months.

Source: No plans to ground Dash 8 aircraft, says Air NZ

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Locking out the homeless to pay for roads, bridges Toby Hall February 10, 2011 - 10:07AM 21 The federal government must rethink its decision to slash funding for affordable rental housing to pay for flood recovery projects.

Source: Locking out the homeless to pay for rebuild

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Moving to the Australian countryside did not bring expat Robert Pickles the peace and quiet he was expecting A possum is just one of the many animals to have disturbed the peace of reader Robert Pickles in Australia.

Source: Expat in Australia: escape to the (noisy) country

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Buble revealed he sat stunned with his Tasmanian-born assistant as the first pictures of the floods were broadcast in Toronto.

Source: Michael Buble pledges flood relief

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The Pentagon says it's identified the remains of a Michigan man and 10 other World War II airmen whose plane crashed in what now is Papua New Guinea and is returning them to their families for burial.

Source: 2/10/2011 - Remains of 11 WWII airmen recovered in New Guinea

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Road cones will soon be made in New Zealand using waste plastic, Environment Minister Nick Smith says.

Source: Plastic road cones to be made in NZ

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Murky freshwater runoff from Australia's worst flooding in decades is adding to stresses from pollution and warming seas on the Great Barrier Reef, one of the world's most fragile ecosystems.

Source: Australia's floods, cyclone stress Barrier Reef

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Urban sprawl is increasingly encroaching on open paddocks, such as in Tarneit, as the city has been dramatically extended.

Source: Land house for sale sold