Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced an alert-level 4 lockdown starting at 11.59pm tonight for seven days in Auckland and Coromandel, and three days elsewhere.

The current situation in Samoa raises the question of how the former PM and potentially other members of the HRPP, can be held accountable for continuing to undermine the judiciary and the new government.

Over 800 cases of Covid-19 and 26 deaths have been reported in Fiji as a northern town gets restrictions, the government said.

One of the biggest cocoa producers in Samoa has seen a huge surge in orders and says they're from Samoans abroad wanting a taste of home.

Heavy sentences for sorcery accusation-related killings in PNG; Concerns in Fiji at sale of self-testing Covid-19 kits; Samoa police patrol remains grounded on coral reef, and more.

Manu Samoa lock Theo McFarland has signed a long-term contract with English Premiership newcomers Saracens.

Samoa's recently deposed ruling party, the Human Rights Protection Party has lost two more seats in election petitions.

Queensland Police have charged a 15-year-old boy with four counts of attempted murder, after an alleged violent attack on former Wallabies No.8 Toutai Kefu and his family in Brisbane.

Hundreds of thousands of medical supplies have arrived in Fiji to support the response against the deadly surge in Covid-19 cases.

A series of demonstrations in West Papua today have been forcibly stopped by Indonesian police.

A Fiji newspaper has been slammed over its attack on a female MP, who is one of at least two top officials to resign in recent days.

The rugby community is rallying around Tonga rugby coach Toutai Kefu, who is fighting for his life in a Brisbane hospital after being stabbed in a home invasion.

A lawyer for Samoa's ruling FAST party says New Zealand judges have been appointed to assist the bench due to all of Samoa's Supreme Court judges being the targets in...

Fiji's health authorities continue to report a drop in daily case numbers but have cautioned the public that there is no downward trend yet.

New Zealand Paralympian Ben Tuimaseve says taking up shot-put has helped him come to terms with his disability and now he's excited to give his all on the world stage.

There are plans in Tonga to apply a mandatory death sentence to serious drug offenders.

Former Wallabies No.8 and current Tonga rugby coach Toutai Kefu has been seriously injured while trying to defend his family in an alleged home invasion at Coorparoo in Brisbane's south early this morning.

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