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.
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has defended his government’s policy of deporting New Zealanders who have served more than a cumulative year in prison.
Paper-based departure cards for people leaving the country could be removed by Christmas, Statistics New Zealand says.
NEW ZEALAND – New Zealand is planning to release a rabbit virus across the country, in an attempt to cull the ballooning wild population.
NEW ZEALAND – A Gisborne councillor says a decision to have both Maori and English names for the city’s bay doesn’t go far enough and the name Poverty Bay should be dropped entirely.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – For nearly a week, Isaac Pulupe and seven of his family members have been living under a bit of canvas stretched between the remnants of his house, with little food, dirty water and no electricity.
PACIFIC – A study of ancient DNA has shed light on the epic journeys that led to the settlement of the Pacific by humans.
TONGA – Tonga’s Minister of Internal Affairs, ‘Akosita Lavulavu, and her husband, former cabinet minister ‘Etuate Lavulavu, were arrested on Saturday on fraud related charges.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Tens of thousands of people in Papua New Guinea are in urgent need of supplies after last Monday’s powerful earthquake, aid agencies say.
PACIFIC – The New Zealand government has kicked off what it calls the “Pacific reset”, with Jacinda Ardern beginning her first trip to the region as Prime Minister.
All six of the New Zealand’s university law schools have cut ties with law firm Russell McVeagh.
Fruit growers will have to pay pickers more if they want to entice more workers into jobs, the Immigration Minister says.
A building industry leader says Auckland’s gridlock has doubled delivery costs and some fed-up truck drivers have quit their jobs.
NEW ZEALAND – A Californian on holiday in New Zealand caused a head-on crash, injuring her partner and another driver, after instinctively driving on the right-hand side of the road.
NEW ZEALAND – Polytechnic mergers are not being ruled out as the sector tries to find a way to survive mounting financial pressures.
NEW ZEALAND – A mentally deranged teenager tried to kill Queen Elizabeth during a royal visit visit to New Zealand in 1981, declassified official documents have confirmed.
NEW ZEALAND – Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has promised to increase New Zealand’s development spending in the Pacific as part of a regional “reset”.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – There is still no official death toll from Papua New Guinea’s 7.5 magnitude earthquake, but as accounts of the damage start to filter through fears are growing that it could be hundreds of dead rather than dozens.
NEW ZEALAND – The National Party has elected its first Maori leader, Simon Bridges. And to make it even more significant, deputy leader Paula Bennett is also Maori.
NEW ZEALAND – Simon Bridges says he hopes Maori can be proud the National Party has elected their first Maori leader.
TONGA – Two weeks after the category four cyclone scored a direct hit on the capital Nuku’alofa and the main island of Tongatapu, up to 50,000 people are still without power and a consistent supply of clean drinking water.