Cook Island Police have discontinued their search for a pair of fisherman now missing for nine days.

A large Israeli-registered yacht has run aground on Arutua atoll in French Polynesia, causing one injury.

The global rugby community has farewelled rugby great Va'aiga Tuigamala at the weekend and is preparing to farewell legendary Blues winger Joeli Vidiri.

Two parties of New Caledonia's pro-independence FLNKS movement have restated their intention to attain the territory's decolonisation from France after last December's referendum in which a majority opted to stay with France.

Samoa continues to be plagued by not having a fulltime pathologist, with the Tupua Tamasese Meaole hospital morgue holding 7 corpses awaiting post mortems.

A total of 30 fishing boats, eight tractors and essential food has been gifted to Tonga by prominent New Zealand businessman Graeme Hart.

A young Samoan woman has been awarded the Commonwealth Points of Light Award in recognition of her women's rights activism and her online blog that empowers young women through art.

American Samoa's lieutenant governor, Talauega Eleasalo Ale, says the territorial government took federal advice before allowing StarKist Samoa tuna cannery to re-open.

The fate of French Polynesia's oldest newspaper, is expected to be decided in the court of appeal next month as it faces liquidation.

The parents of a young boy with rheumatic fever are urging adults, particularly in Pacific communities, to take sore throats and rashes in children seriously.

Solomons' figures soar; Vanuatu confirms a Covid-19 patient is critically ill; medical staff test positive in American Samoa; over 200 active cases in the Cook Islands; frontline staff test positive in Samoa, and more.

The Fijian Drua are taking plenty of encouragement after almost pulling off an upset win against the Queensland Reds in Brisbane on Saturday.

New Zealand farewelled its highest international run-scorer when Ross Taylor signalled his retirement from international cricket earlier this year.

Five kilometres deep on the Cook Islands seafloor, potato-shaped rocks pave the bottom loaded with expensive minerals like cobalt, copper, manganese and nickel.

Tributes have flowed for American anthropologist Adrienne Lois Keppler, a leading scholar in Pacific art and dance, who passed away last weekend at the age of 86.

With Covid-19 having blighted preparations, many team contesting in the beginning of the men's Oceania World Cup Qualifiers will be ring-rusty.

A senior surgeon in New Caledonia has been jailed for 20 years for the homicide of his neighbour.

Vanuatu's newly appointed Minister of Health Bruno Leingkon says the government is preparing to offer short term contracts for retired nurses and third year student nurses to combat a staffing shortage as the country tries to cope with soaring C...