The new water supply manager To Tatou Vai will be empowered to compulsorily purchase land, joining existing infrastructure authorities like the roading, phone and power bodies.

The Vaka Cruise, an Aitutaki lagoon tour company, is hoping its big win at the A1 Meitaki Awards last week will help them cement a number one spot in the business.

The government and opposition are engaging in a war of words over the appointment of Toka Hagai as a seventh minister.

A 45 per cent pay rise for MPs, calculated as an average 2.9% a year since their last salary increase in 2006. 

Government infrastructure project managers will be allowed to walk onto private land without prior notice.

Renowned lagoon tour company The Vaka Cruise was the big winner at the A1 Meitaki Awards on the island of Aitutaki on Friday last week.

The mystery shipwreck washed up on a Rarotonga beach had been heading from eastern Europe to Aitutaki.

Landowners fear a return to colonial days of property confiscations.

Cook Islands Sevens training squad Manatoa made a perfect start to the Raro Club Pre-Season Sevens with two wins.

A fault at Bluesky Cook Islands’ Aroa station caused the total blackout of internet, mobile and other telecommunication services through to early yesterday.