French Polynesia's opposition and nuclear test veterans organisation will boycott talks in Paris on the legacy of French testing.

A deadly explosion in the Solomon Islands capital has caused fear and confusion about the ongoing threat posed by hidden munitions left over from World War II.

Charges have been laid against six Kanak leaders in connection with last December's violence at the Vale nickel plant in New Caledonia.

The Samoa women's rugby team will play two Tests against Australia in July, including as part of an international double-header in Brisbane.

One more case of Covid-19 in the community was confirmed in Suva yesterday as Fijian authorities maintain containment zones across its main island Viti Levu.

Papua New Guinea holds about seven percent of the world's biodiversity and the United Nations Development Programme wants this reflected in its economy.

Fears of more attacks on a PNG jail, investigation underway into death at New Caledonian power plant, and coronavirus in PNG and the Northern Marianas.

Fiji, Samoa and Tonga will all play two tests in New Zealand as part of World Rugby's revised schedule for the July international window.

A leading figure in West Papua's independence movement has been arrested by Indonesian police in relation to large protests in 2019.

The French overseas minister Sebastien Lecornu says for France to allow French tourists back to Tahiti, 70 percent of French Polynesians have to be vaccinated against Covid-19.

Pacific languages is key to the well-being for all its people in New Zealand, the government says.

An explosion from a shell left from World War II has killed one person and left two others in critical condition in Solomon Islands.

Pro-France politicians in New Caledonia say the three provincial governments should be given more autonomy under French control as another independence referendum is due.

There is no need to impose lockdown restrictions in Fiji just yet, authorities say.

The lockdown imposed in Wallis and Futuna in March is being eased as Covid-19 cases have plummeted.

The Papua New Guinea Hunters rugby league team finished with only nine players on the field during a controversial 40-12 loss to Brisbane Tigers on Sunday.

The party of Samoa's caretaker government is walking back suggestions from its leader that Facebook could be banned before the next election.

The wife of the former Cook Islands Prime Minister Henry Puna is the latest member of the country's parliament.