The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre says there is no tsunami threat.
Maori Party candidate Manase Lua says the Tongan King endorsed him.
The closure has left the families of 21 children and seven staff in limbo.
The manumea which is facing extinction is the closest living relative to the extinct dodo.
The region is being asked to do its bit as the international community aims to increase pressure on the rogue state.
The offshore immigration detention centre closes at the end of October.
King Tupou VI has dissolved parliament and ordered the election be brought forward a year.
The soldiers are in the country as part of annual training exercises.
1 NEWS' Pacific Correspondent Barbara Dreaver analyses King Tupou VI's sacking of Akilisi Pohiva.
The NZDF is closely monitoring the situation and has put the exercise on hold.
A lack of democracy was one of the main causes of riots in 2006 which resulted in the capital Nuku'alofa being torched.
Cindy Hanson knows she only has minutes to get home to her son.
Hans Dalton suffered from a mental illness and was found dead upside down in a water drum in 2012.
The plot 18 years ago killed one of Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi's cabinet ministers.
Studio 274 provided IT opportunities for a community that needed it.
'Isileli Paul from Otara was helping set up tents at his family home when he was killed.
The suspects are believed to have been involved in a $20 million fraud scandal.
The crimes involve an alleged illegal online gambling and lottery gang.
Kiwi travellers are being warned to take precautions after 11 deaths in New Caledonia this year.
The strain hasn't been seen in 20 years and 11 people have died in New Caledonia this year.
Nearly 70 per cent of the population is aged between 15-25 with more than half unemployed.
The Tongan community has differing opinions on the series featuring white comedian Chris Lilley.
Jimmy Lusibaea is now a member of parliament and a leading businessman.
Chris Lilley plays 14-year-old Tongan boy Jonah Takalua.
Ask the general population about the task force and most will tell you how they value it and the fear they hold for when it withdraws this week.
Paula Bennett is visiting the capital Honiara and will join Pacific leaders to mark the end of RAMSI.
After 14 years the Pacific's biggest regional defence intervention is withdrawing.
Strawbridge and his family are grateful to Samoa's Moto'otua National Hospital.
A NZ Defence Force Orion aircraft has located the four stranded sailors alive and safe, beached on an atoll.
