A round-up of news in brief from around the region, including a deadly fireworks explosion in Hawai’i, Tonga’s Home Reef Volcano continues to grow. Hawai’i – fireworks ...

NZDFs Senior National Representative for Operation Resolution, Commodore Andrew Brown, said being able to lay the anchors and ...

The Cook Islands can only have its own passport if it gives up New Zealand citizenship, the office of New Zealand’s Foreign ...

I could feel that my jaw might be broken and looking down I saw blood on the concrete.” Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor ...

Former PM Hu’akavameiliku Siaosi Sovaleni resigned on 9 December ahead of a no-confidence motion.‘Aisake Eke is the new prime minister of Tonga. He won the secret ballot votes 16-8 at ...

Transparency International in Papua New Guinea has expressed its fear another electoral disaster is on the way for PNG.Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific Senior Journalist Transparency International in ...

The discovery of a prion disease, kuru, in the Fore people of Papua New Guinea that was transmitted by consuming contaminated human brain tissue of family members during funeral rites demonstrated ...

A block resignation means the whole government of New Caledonia is deemed to have resigned, and should now act in a caretaker mode. Patrick Decloitre, Correspondent, French Pacific Desk New ...

In addition to the RRO, the World Bank is also carrying out a Global Rapid post-disaster Damage Estimation (GRADE) that will help estimate the economic damage caused by the earthquake. PORT VILA, ...

One week on from Vanuatus deadly 7.3 magnitude earthquake, families hit by the disaster are still reeling from the nightmarish moment the quake hit, highlighting the need for mental health ...

Unfair family planning regimes have stalled progress in the climate fight and prevent children from having a fair start in life. Nearly half the world’s children “live in countries where risks ...

There is an overall lack of confidence in the business community and people are refraining from making investments because of safety and security issues which are now running out of control in the ...