PNG has issued new compulsory mask use measures as it continues to wrestle with a spike in Covid-19 cases.

Lawmakers in American Samoa have agreed to the final language of a proposed law, increasing tobacco excise tax by three cents and repealing the two percent wage tax.

A judge in Fiji has warned that anyone convicted of child-rape should be prepared to spend at least 11 years in prison.

Samoa's economy collapsed by 8.6 percent in the 12 months to the end of September 2020.

Unlike rugby, league and netball, cricket has traditionally struggled to capture the interest of New Zealand's Pasifika communities, but this may be changing.

The head of one of the Bougainville landowner groups affected by the Panguna mine, says any decision on re-opening the mine is for the landowners to make.

A dam on the Hawaiian island of Maui has been breached following heavy rains in the US state this week.

The general-secretary of Fiji's main opposition party, Emele Duituturaga, has quit, less than a year on the job.

One of the most remote islands in the Pacific is pleading for help from New Zealand and Australia to deal with a water crisis.

Fiji has recorded three new border quarantine cases of Covid-19.

China offers help with Samoan bodies awaiting autopsies, Tongan repatriation flight just carries cargo, Samoa's polling date is confirmed and there's another round of funding for Pasifika education in NZ.

PNG health authorities are anxious for front-line workers to get vaccinated against Covid-19 as soon as possible.

Vanuatu's Council of Chiefs in Efate have spoken out against government plans to open a so-called TamTam travel bubble with New Caledonia.

The CNMI wants a US National Guard post of its own so there would be servicemen to respond to natural disasters and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Olsen Filipaina is a rugby league icon, but it was the love from the women in his life which helped him deal with experiences of racism and depression throughout his career.

Covid lockdowns in the world's largest Polynesian city forced the Auckland Arts Festival to re-schedule much of a year's work in the space of a week.

Papua New Guinea has granted regulatory approval for the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to be used in the country.

Tokelau has officially opened its first parliamentary session for 2021 in Atafu, inaugurating a new Ulu