Campaigning in New Caledonia officially closes on Friday midnight, local time, two days ahead of election day on Sunday 28 June.

Increasing trade links was high on the agenda as the leaders of PNG and Solomon Islands met in PNG's capital.

New Zealand says no new payment is being negotiated over the sinking of the New Zealand Navy vessel, HMNZS Manawanui, despite a report in Samoa to the contrary.

Matthew Wale is set to meet his Papua New Guinean counterpart James Marape on Friday for a one-day bilateral talks in Port Moresby.

A Cook Islands fisher lost at sea for a week was knocked out of his dinghy twice during relentless storms and violent seas.

The PRF is the first Pacific led, owned and managed financial institution dedicated to providing funding to build community resilience against climate-related adversities.

Ratu Tevita, the son of Fiji's first prime minister and president Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, said Fiji could be breeding a new generation of drug dealers.

The Autonomous Bougainville Government has formally outlined its final position on its political future.

Josefa Nata, who spent more than two decades in prison for his role in Fiji's 2000 coup, says past political upheavals have only worsened conditions for the nation's indigenous people.

Apiuta Apiuta, from the tiny island of Pukapuka, was spotted by a NZDF aircraft team and plucked out of the ocean by the crew of a Taiwanese fishing vessel last Thursday.

Analysis - Pacific island countries have scrambled to secure their own fuel supply, forcing them to lean on their wealthy neighbours and multilateral donors.

Feature - With more than 100,000 sight restoring surgeries delivered, The Fred Hollows Foundation marks a major regional milestone funded largely by the New Zealand public.

While the curtains have fallen on the current team, New Zealand Rugby has not shut the door on a future Pasifika franchise in Super Rugby Pacific.

An environmental organisation in Germany says there is a great deal of work to be done before COP31.

Local media report that Dickson Peng, the owner of an electronics and technology solutions company, defrauded the government of approximately NZ$17.5m in tax dating back to 2019.

The Pacific Islands Forum ecomomic ministers got hands-on experience using the Marshall Islands' new digital money system as they kicked of their annual meeting in Majuro on Tuesday.