New Caledonia

New Caledonia's criminal court has sentenced four men to jail terms for transporting 1.4 tonnes of cocaine on a yacht from South America.

The trial has opened in New Caledonia of four men accused of smuggling 1.4 tonnes of cocaine.

A New Caledonian group has spoken out against this month's deal reached in Paris defining the restricted electoral roll for next year's planned independence referendum.

A microlight plane has crashed in New Caledonia, killing its pilot and one passenger.

The container ship Kea Trader which has been stuck on a reef off New Caledonia for several months has reportedly split in half.

New Caledonia's Palika party has proposed making New Caledonia an independent state in partnership with France.

The four parties making up New Caledonia's FLNKS pro-independence movement have been in separate extended weekend meetings.

The French government has banned aerial photography and filming of almost 250 sites, including military zones in French Polynesia and New Caledonia.

There has been a call for New Caledonia's politicians of all hues to agree on a joint declaration about their common heritage.

French firefighters have been flown to New Caledonia to reinforce local teams stretched by an early spell of bushfires.

The leader of France's National Front Marine Le Pen has restated that she is against New Caledonia becoming independent.

The remains of a Kanak man who died in 1918 serving in the French army have been exhumed to be returned to New Caledonia.

The French interior minister has acceded to demands from New Caledonia to send more security forces to the territory.

Police in New Caledonia have appealed to the public for information after a police vehicle was shot near La Foa.

The French prime minister has announced that talks in Paris with New Caledonian leaders have yielded a political accord paving the way for next year's independence referendum.