Cook Islands

Nearly 1200 Cook Islands taxpayers have applied to have old taxes and penalties written off in return for agreeing to pay their main outstanding taxes.

While Cook Islands MPs get ready for hefty wage rises from next week, the Group for Political Change is angry.

Media are a crucial part of the democratic process and accessibility to politicians is key to informing the public say Pacific journalists visiting New Zealand. Audio

The Cook Islands Rugby League team are a step closer to qualifying for the 2021 World Cup with a 66-6 thrashing of South Africa in Sydney.

Cook Islands authorities have given the greenlight to the Elton John bio-pic Rocketman, dispelling outcry over its rumoured ban.

The prime minister of the Cook Islands has been given a nearly $US31,000 wage rise.

Government infrastructure project managers in the Cook Islands will be allowed to walk onto private land without prior notice as part of a controversial new land law.

A new law has triggered fears Cook Islands landowners could be forced to sell property for big projects in a return to the colonial days of property confiscations.

Sustainability in the remote Cook Islands atoll of Pukapuka is the subject of a short film featuring in New Zealand's International Film Festival this year. Video

A bid by the opposition in the Cook Islands to have a controversial seabed mining bill face further scrutiny has been quashed.

Nine debutants have been selected in the Cook Islands rugby league team that returns from the international wilderness to face South Africa in a World Cup qualifying match on Friday.

The Cook Islands is likely to follow Samoa in banning the biopic about the international pop star, Elton John.

A Cook Islands minister with properties in Rarotonga is occupying one of the sought-after government houses.

The Cook Islands government is moving to amend its Budget to provide an extra $US200,000 to refurbish Parliament's debating chamber.

The American man at the centre of a storm surrounding his travel with a nine-year-old Cook Island girl to the US has hit out at accusations "questionable material" was found on his phone.