New Caledonia

New Caledonian firefighter in critical condition after trying to contain blaze in far north.

Last November's referendum outcome is a reminder to France that it has to accompany New Caledonia to full independence, the territory's pro-independence movement says.

There is anger among New Caledonia's anti-independence politicians about a suggestion that the territory could become independent but associated with France.

A strike at two mining sites of the nickel company SLN in New Caledonia has spread.

The French overseas minister Annick Girardin says the government may offer New Caledonia a vision which would see it become associated with France.

A 50-year-old man in New Caledonia has been jailed for causing an accident which killed his six-year-old daughter.

A strike has been launched at two mining sites of the nickel company SLN in New Caledonia.

People wanting to vote in provincial elections in New Caledonia need to be enrolled by Monday.

New Caledonia will restrict the use of plastic from July next year.

New Caledonia has declared an epidemic of dengue fever.

A New Caledonian anti-independence party says going to a second or a third referendum on independence from France is useless and dangerous.

Wooden boats seized for illegal fishing in New Caledonia are being dismantled as part of a training programme for young job seekers.

A court in New Caledonia has given jail sentences to another five men over the violence south of Noumea two days after last month's independence referendum.

New Caledonia's Industry Federation is upset at how local businesses were portrayed in a comic strip published by the Competition Authority.

The New Caledonian government says it is yet to decide if it will allow a small cruise ship to sail into the marine reserve of the uninhabited Chesterfield islands.

New Caledonia's pro- and anti-independence leaders have met in Paris for the first formal talks since last month's referendum in which independence was rejected.

French investigators have searched the offices of New Caledonia's biggest anti-independence party in Noumea.

A public sector strike has been called in New Caledonia for Friday next week.