Samoa's Head of State has agreed to convene parliament in order to swear in the members elected in April's election.

A warm welcome at the door, hugs, bright shirts in Pasifika prints - Wellington's health board is on a charm offensive to combat any vaccine reluctance among the Pacific community and to get people vaccinated.

The Cook Islands' Covid-19 vaccination programme is now in full swing with up to 600 people receiving the first Pfizer jab today.

Fiji women's football international Trina Davis is back with her family in the US after a terrifying week trying to escape the escalating conflict in Gaza.

Those who throw 'coward punches' must face tougher penalties, martial arts community members say, after a young Tongan fighter was left critically injured by an assault in central Auckland.

The leader of Samoa's majority party says establishment of the new government should move swiftly, and she's calling on the Head of State to take the steps to make that happen, despite legal challenges.

Bougainville's President Ishmael Toroama has called for the autonomous Papua New Guinea region to be given independence by 2025.

France should pay for medical costs caused by its nuclear weapons tests according to Tahiti's social security agency.

Businesses in Rarotonga are hoping the first plane load of tourists to fly into the Cook Islands in over a year are ready to spend up large.

Guam has launched a 'vacation and vaccination' promotion, clashes between West Papuan guerilla fighters and Indonesia have been compared to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and in the Northern Mariana Islands a traveller has tested positive for...

Samoa's caretaker prime minister has called for calm as uncertainty hangs over political disputes surrounding the results of the 9 April general elections.

Four new community cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed by health authorities in Fiji.

A cache of explosives from World War II was accidentally discovered in Solomon Islands by a man digging a pit latrine over the weekend.

New Caledonian politicians have begun commenting on an embargoed French government paper about the implications of the next independence referendum.

The struggle to decide Samoa's government is headed back to court, as both main political parties continue to stand firm on their beliefs following a Supreme Court ruling dismissing a call for a second election.

Several members of the West Papua Liberation Army have been killed by Indonesia's military in the past few days amid reports of villages being hit by aerial fire.

The first arrivals from Auckland have landed in Rarotonga today to a packed airport, as the long-awaited travel-bubble starts.

Two more cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Fiji last night and health authorities moved two patients into an intensive case unit.