Three more people with Covid-19 died in Fiji in the last 24 hours, one of them the youngest patient since the pandemic reached the country in March 2020.

The Cook Islands Secretary of Health, Bob Williams, says a number of people planning to travel to the Cooks were offloaded in Auckland before the Thursday flight to Rarotonga.

The Court of Appeal in Samoa says its ruling from 2 June on the sixth women's seat cannot be used to delay the convening of parliament.

Bobbing in the golden sunset on the calm waters of Avarua Harbour, sheltered by the lush, jagged peaks of Rarotonga, the vaka is an impressive sight.

Solomon Islands has held a ground-breaking ceremony in the Shortland Islands for a border security project it's partnering with Australia.

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Compliance not lockdowns will help Fiji out of the alarming outbreak of the Delta variant of Covid-19 according Fiji's leading health official.

Fiji's sevens teams will find out where they stand a month out from the Olympic Games, when the PacificAus Oceania Sevens kicks off in Townsville today.

Diplomats and experts from Fiji and Indonesia have been discussing ways to co-operate in the field of international peacekeeping.

Seven new caps will start for Manu Samoa against the Māori All Blacks on Saturday, with another four players set to make their debut off the bench.

Vanuatu is to launch a literary first today with an anthology of women's writing.

Vanuatu's champion beach volleyball team is chasing history this weekend as they bid to qualify for the Olympic Games.

Thirteen tonnes of personal protective equipment (PPE) and medical supplies worth NZ$482,000 have arrived in Fiji from New Zealand.

A new vaccination campaign in the Pacific is targeting 100,000 children across nine countries.

The new Secretary-General of the Pacific Islands Forum says he will champion solidarity and unity within the regional grouping.

The Papua New Guinea member of parliament for South Bougainville says a violent dispute near Kakemono in south Bougainville is being resolved.

Samoans eligible to get vaccinated against COVID-19 are being urged to do so after new figures showed the country's rates of vaccination falling behind other Pacific nations.

Despite a rise in deaths and record infections of Covid-19, Fiji's Government says it's too early to say if the coronavirus will become an endemic disease in the country.