Stories by Caleb Fotheringham

The damage is not expected to be as severe as last year's tropical cyclone Mawar.

But an LQBTQ+ advocate in the Kingdom claims the law has only ever been used against minors not in consenting same sex relations.

Tonga Law Society president Lopeti Senituli has distanced himself from the petition, saying the lawyers who kicked the petition into motion were acting independently.

Barbara Malimali was revealed new anti-corruption head on Wednesday, detained the next day, and was back in the same office investigating her for an abuse of office allegation Friday.

The new financial buoy would allow those essential services to continue operating, at least for the month of September.

Starlink is now in the last stages of getting operation licences across the Pacific following people illegally smuggling units from New Zealand and Australia. Audio

Deep sea mining involves extracting potato size rocks called nodules - which are packed full of valuable metals - from the seafloor many kilometres deep. Audio

Palau's incumbent President Surangel Whipps Jr will go up against his brother-in-law and former president, Tommy Remengesau, in the 2024 Palau elections.

Breakdown in "family values" blamed for the drug problem, as authorities warn of surge in HIV cases due to "bluetoothing" and concerns about "meth lollies" finding its way to Fiji. Audio

Palau's President Surangel Whipps Jr claims China is "weaponising tourism" in a bid to get the nation to sever its ties with Taiwan.

The President of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) officially held his first ever bilateral meeting with a New Zealand government minister on Tuesday. Audio

President Hilda Heine has decided to join other Pacific countries in recognising "the IAEA as the authority on nuclear safety".

"There is widespread support for the membership of Guam and American Samoa...that is the recommendation from [Pacific Islands Forum] foreign ministers." Audio

The three-person Pacific leaders mission to New Caledonia is expected to happen prior to the Forum Leaders Meeting in Tonga on 26 August, PIF chair Mark Brown says.

Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters says: "A lot of people think that charity begins at home but in your long-term interest as a country, you neglect your neighbourhood at your peril."

新西兰和中国是仅有的两个为太平洋地区提供短波广播业务的国家，Peters评价短波通讯"不可或缺"。

Foreign Affairs Minister, Winston Peters, who officiated at the commissioning in Wellington on Thursday, says it is "seriously important now" than when it began in 1990.

Tuvalu and other nations have joined the call for a precautionary pause on deep sea mining at the International Seabed Authority Assembly meeting in Kingston, Jamaica.

An advocate against deep sea mining says if action is not taken the world is "going to descend in the waters of the Pacific".

The Royal Commission of Inquiry's final report found Pacific people were overrepresented along with Māori, deaf, disabled, and mentally distressed people. Audio

Luke Vakayawa, 22, was a crew member on Lady Moana, which was returning to Rarotonga from Mangaia, when he fell overboard.

The 22-year-old Fijian man, who was a crew member of Lady Moana was travelling to Rarotonga from Mangaia.

Vanuatu's Deputy Prime Minister Matai Seremaiah says many children in the Pacific no longer live with their parents because of labour schemes in Australia and New Zealand. Audio

There is a call for Niue's diaspora in New Zealand to return to the island and help with its development. Audio

The NZ Foreign Minister says countries talking about the transition to a green future must understand that "we cannot get there unless...we are engaged in extraction."