Pentecost Island, Vanuatu – In the slums of Vanuatu’s capital Port Vila, Chief Viraleo Boborenvanua awaits trial on bail. The middle-aged chief spends his days processing kava root, an ...

Pentecost Island was impacted on Monday night local time with extreme Category 5 winds, a likely devastating storm surge, an anticipated 8 to 10 inches of rain and possible tornadoes. Jason ...

Vanuatu is an archipelago located in the South Pacific Ocean, in the region of Melanesia, east of Australia and west of Fiji. Its capital is Port Vila, situated on the island of Efate, and it ...

Above: Radar image of Tropical Cyclone Harold at 1610Z Tuesday, April 7, 2020 (4:15 am Wednesday Fiji time). (Fiji Meteorological Service) Update (1 pm EDT Tuesday): After dealing the northern ...

Vanuatu officials on Thursday ordered the complete evacuation of an island in the Pacific archipelago where a rumbling, belching volcano is threatening to blow.Boats were soon to begin ferrying ...

In 1995, I made the first of dozens of trips to the remote South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, whose name means “land eternal.” At the time, I was in search of kava, a plant used since ...

Vanuatu officials issued a mandatory evacuation of Ambae island, which is home to about 11,000 people, as Manaro volcano threatens to erupt. Latest. U.S.

But the 14 branches of the Tari Bunia Bank, spread around the lush forests of Vanuatu's remote Pentecost Island, deal in a very special sort of currency. "I have come to make a deposit," said Vira ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Vanuatu officials on Thursday ordered the complete evacuation of an island in the Pacific archipelago where a rumbling, belching volcano is threatening to blow ...