New Caledonia

A 77-year old man in New Caledonia was forced to travel in the luggage hold of a bus after it took off while he tried to get his bags.

A leading New Caledonian pro-independence politician has called for a balanced information campaign in the lead-up to the November referendum on independence from France.

The French prime minister Edouard Philippe has again insisted on the need for a dialogue In New Caledonia as it nears its independence referendum in November.

Three Pacific territories have been discussed at the latest meeting of the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonisation.

The United Nations says while preparations for New Caledonia's independence referendum are progressing well, the situation remains uncertain and fragile.

There has been another fire at the SLN mining site in Kouaoua in New Caledonia.

Several New Caledonian politicians are bound for Paris for talks about the referendum on independence from France.

No matter the outcome of November's referendum on independence from France, ties with New Caledonia will remain friendly, Vanuatu's prime minister says.

Five New Caledonian men have been given additional jail sentences for escaping from the territory's prison three years ago.

Five political parties in New Caledonia have been authorised to campaign in the November referendum on independence from France.

A man in New Caledonia has been given an 18-month jail sentence for setting a fire at the Kouaoua mining site a week ago.

New Caledonia's biggest anti-independence party has hit out at the leaders of other parties who have quit an informal alliance formed a year ago.

A man has been arrested in New Caledonia accused of setting a fire at the Kouaoua mining site a week ago.

The head of France's centrist UDI party has expressed his wish that New Caledonia remains French after the November independence referendum.

A four-metre long snake, weighing 26 kilos, has been killed by hunters In New Caledonia's north.

Disabled people in New Caledonia have taken to the street to demonstrate against repeated burglaries at their organisation's office.

There has been another fire at the Kouaoua mining site in New Caledonia, again believed to be an act of vandalism.

New Caledonia's informal four-party anti-independence coalition has collapsed.