New Caledonia

New Caledonia's public prosecutor in has asked for a jail sentence for a former president Harold Martin in his trial for alleged vote-buying.

Four lists of candidates have been submitted in New Caledonia overnight to contest next Thursday's election of a new 11-member collegial government for a five-year term.

The French Senate has been told that the political situation in New Caledonia has become absurd after last week's election of a pro-independence Congress president, Roch Wamytan.

The anti-independence camp in New Caledonia is afraid that for the first time a mainly pro-independence government could be elected next week.

The former president of New Caledonia's Congress, Gael Yanno, says he is worried a mainly pro-independence government will be elected next week.

Fears of more shark attacks have prompted the closure of several beaches on New Caledonia's west coast.

The trial of the president of New Caledonia's Northern Province has again been deferred.

A fisherman in New Caledonia has been killed in a shark attack, just days after a boy lost his leg in a similar incident.

Judicial authorities in New Caledonia have again rejected a bid for home detention by the territory's top surgeon who is awaiting trial for murder.

The secretary of New Caledonia's chapter of France's right-wing National Rally has resigned just days after the party's success in the European parliamentary election.

The leader of New Caledonia's Pacific Awakening party says tackling the territory's housing problems is its priority.

New Caledonia's anti-independence Future with Confidence coalition has warned of the worst economic crisis in 40 years.

France's ruling En Marche party has come first in the European parliamentary elections in French Polynesia and in Wallis and Futuna.

The leader of New Caledonia's Pacific Awakening party says there is a need to build a society that reflects its population beyond the division into pro- and anti-independence sides.

A 10-year-old boy in New Caledonia has been severely injured in a shark attack.

The pro-independence politician Roch Wamytan has been elected as the president of New Caledonia's Congress.

A 73-year-old woman has been jailed in New Caledonia as investigations continue into a huge ponzi scheme.