The team missed Christmas with their families to help, and showed “ultimate professionalism”, leader says. Felix Walton, ...

NZDFs Senior National Representative for Operation Resolution, Commodore Andrew Brown, said being able to lay the anchors and ...

I could feel that my jaw might be broken and looking down I saw blood on the concrete.” Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor ...

The Cook Islands can only have its own passport if it gives up New Zealand citizenship, the office of New Zealand’s Foreign ...

EMCI, CIIC and OPM join forces to take action Photo / Supplied Cook Islands Investment Incorporation (CIIC), Emergency ...

The discovery of a prion disease, kuru, in the Fore people of Papua New Guinea that was transmitted by consuming contaminated human brain tissue of family members during funeral rites demonstrated ...

Former PM Hu’akavameiliku Siaosi Sovaleni resigned on 9 December ahead of a no-confidence motion.‘Aisake Eke is the new prime minister of Tonga. He won the secret ballot votes 16-8 at ...

Transparency International in Papua New Guinea has expressed its fear another electoral disaster is on the way for PNG.Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific Senior Journalist Transparency International in ...

The Treaty is a regional fisheries agreement that seeks to provide access to Exclusive Economic Zones of Pacific Island Parties (PIPs) for United States tuna fishing vessels, in return for access ...

In addition to the RRO, the World Bank is also carrying out a Global Rapid post-disaster Damage Estimation (GRADE) that will help estimate the economic damage caused by the earthquake. PORT VILA, ...

One week on from Vanuatus deadly 7.3 magnitude earthquake, families hit by the disaster are still reeling from the nightmarish moment the quake hit, highlighting the need for mental health ...

A round-up of news in brief from around the region, including the cost of tobacco-related illnesses in Fiji. Fiji – smoking The World Health Organisation says tobacco-related illnesses cost ...