Sailors from Tahiti edged over Rarotonga, proving to be very competitive taking out first place in both the Lasers and the Optimist classes, winning the 2024 sailing challenge overall trophy.
Former Cook Islands prime minister and secretary-general of the Pacific Islands Forum, Henry Puna, has been confirmed as the first Cook Islander appointed to the East-West Center Board of Governors based in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Samoan sailors working overseas have been warned they must maintain acceptable standards of behaviour.
American Samoa's health department confirms community cases of Covid-19 in the territory.
For the estimated 5,000 Tongans employed in New Zealand and Australia under their respective Pacific seasonal work schemes, the volcanic eruption and tsunami that devastated the Kingdom on 15 January 2022 was an entirely unforeseen event.
A huge "Moai" statue, one of the iconic stone monuments from Rapa Nui or Easter Island has begun its journey back home.
French Polynesia has recorded another 1,855 Covid-19 cases in the last 48-hour reporting period.
There has been widespread condemnation of convicted rapist and Fiji rugby sevens star Amenoni Nasilasila's inclusion at a local tournament last weekend.
Fiji's Government warns unvaccinated people in the vaccine-eligible population are 17 times more likely to die if they contract Covid-19 than those that are vaccinated.
The Cooks Islands is providing wrap-around support to the women detected as the first Covid-19 cases in Rarotonga.
Representatives from Pacific-focused health providers are not surprised that Pasifika people make up about half of the cases in the latest Covid-19 outbreak.
Moana Pasifika team expect to come out of self-isolation and resume training in the next 72 hours.
While Fijian health authorities are happy Covid-19 cases in the country are on the decline, they can't say the same for leptospirosis.
Despite Pasifika making up about half of the cases in the current Omicron outbreak, community leaders say they're prepared for what's to come.
The Cook Islands is dismissing reports Henry Puna is to stand down as head of the Pacific Islands Forum to heal a rift with the Micronesian leaders in the body.
Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown says any discussions relating to the Pacific Islands Forum Secretary General Henry Puna stepping aside are “premature and puzzling”.
A search will resume in New Caledonia today (Wednesday) for the bodies of two people, carried away in a controlled release of water from a dam near Yate on Saturday.
A group of church ministers in Fiji have resigned because they do not want to be vaccinated against Covid-19.
The Cook Islands Health Ministry Te Marae Ora tested 371 people for Covid-19 yesterday, in the wake of the first positive result in the country on Monday.
Pasifika people are making up about half of the cases in the current outbreak of the Omicron variant in New Zealand.
The Pacific Islands Forum Secretary General, Henry Puna, is set to leave the post after just 18 months to try and repair a rift in the organisation.
The United Nations Pacific office is urging the international community to keep up the support to Tonga and help it build back stronger after the January 15 volcanic eruption and tsunami.