The Tonga government is reassuring citizens they won't need to worry about running out of fuel over the Christmas period after months of petrol shortages.

However, the Fijian government says the National Referendum Bill 2025 is "intended solely to ensure the orderly, transparent, and impartial conduct of referendums".

The New Zealand Navy vessel sank off the south coast of Samoa's island of Upolu in October last year, and affected locals have yet to be compensated.

The motion was voted down by 36 votes against and 12 votes in favour.

French President Emmanuel Macron has called New Caledonia's politicians back to the negotiating table in Paris in the New Year.

Tonga's new Prime Minister Lord Fakafanua says he hopes to have his Cabinet line-up named in the next few days.

The Pacific Netball Challenge to be held in November 2026 will be solely for players who live and play the sport in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga and the Cook Islands.

The dream of owning a home is now a reality for 18 Pasifika families in Porirua, one of the four main cities that make up the Greater Wellington Region.

His comments follow reports that Fiji risks losing all non-humanitarian US aid unless it takes "decisive action" against the South Korean sect over human trafficking allegations.

The fishing transport vessel Ou Ya Leng 6 ran aground on the reef at uninhabited Taka Atoll in the northern Marshall Islands in January 2019 and remains there to this day.

Vanuatu's parliament is expected to sit on Friday to debate the opposition's motion of no confidence in Prime Minister Joptham Napat.

Jared Lutu and Colleen Silafai proudly represented South Auckland and their Pacific communities at the Special Olympics National Summer Games in Christchurch last weekend.

He was responding to concerns raised by Tongans locally and abroad about a citizenship by investment proposal touted to earn US$400 million over five years for the government.

A round-up of sports news from around the region, including a search for a new coach for the PNG women's league team.

Tonga is one of more than 20 countries, predominantly in Africa and the Middle East, included in a new US executive order targeting visa overstayers.

Christopher Pryde says three men from Fiji parked outside his Christchurch home in his absence last month.