Stories by Giff Johnson

Twenty-two fishermen and a fisheries observer escaped with only the clothes they were wearing when a purse seine vessel sank off the Marshall Islands.

The capital of the Marshall Islands, Majuro, will host the first in-person annual meeting of the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) since 2019 when the fisheries organisation convenes on Monday.

Nauru Airlines has announced it is bumping up its service to weekly starting the first week of January.

Two naturalised Marshallese citizens have plead guilty to conspiring to violate the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in connection with a multi-year scheme to bribe Marshall Islands government…

The Marshall Islands had its highest-ever sustained out-migration over the past five years, according to a statistical report released earlier this week.

The Marshall Islands ended two years of being at the centre of controversy over the possible break up of the Pacific's premier regional organisation when its parliament adopted resolutions reaffirming…

Preliminary data released by the Marshall Islands government from its late 2021 national census indicates rampant poverty in the north Pacific nation.

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong arrived in the Marshall Islands this week to mark the 35th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries.

Nauru Airlines is expected this month to resume air service linking Brisbane with islands in the central and north Pacific.

The Marshall Islands has pulled the plug on talks with the US aimed at finalising aspects of the Compact of Free Association, under which Washington provides its former colony with aid and assistance. Audio

The Marshall Islands has been praised by a United States Health and Human Services official for a "superb" response to Covid.

The Marshall Islands has lifted its state of health disaster after three years, and opened its borders to normal travel.

A former Marshall Islands President wants to know what the government will do about officials involved in a bribery scandal.

Two naturalised Marshallese citizens have been indicted by the US Department of Justice on bribery charges.

United States-based medical doctors have praised the Marshall Islands for an "unprecedented" response to its first covid outbreak, as the positive case numbers declined dramatically this week after a…

Marshall Islands' health authorities scrambling to stay on top of fast-moving Covid-19 outbreak.

Thousands of Marshall Islanders converged on Ebeye Island this week for the first coronation ceremony of a paramount chief in half a century.

The Marshall Islands is to end its Covid-19 managed quarantine measures, which have been in place for two years.

Marshall Islands president David Kabua has been prevented from attending this week's first in-person meeting of Pacific Islands Forum leaders because his own government derailed an effort earlier in…

US and Marshall Islands leaders hope to complete negotiations to renew provisions of an economic and security treaty by the end of this year.

Nearly three years after the first in-person preliminary discussions were held between the United States and the Marshall Islands for a third funding agreement in the Compact of Free Association…

US President Biden's special envoy for Compact negotiations with the freely associated states Ambassador Joseph Yun is expected to head a team of Americans who will come to the Marshall Islands next…

A recently launched Taiwan-funded small loan programme for Marshall Islands women entrepreneurs has issued over US$200,000 in its first four months of operation, the loan fund administrator said on…

United Airlines resume passenger service to Majuro following the completion of emergency renovation work at Amata Kabua International Airport's main terminal.

The Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia prepare to open borders.