The Queen's Representative in the Cook Islands Sir Tom Marsters has confirmed Mark Brown as the Prime Minister.

The Cook Islands Party has gained two more seats following the final count of the general election, edging it closer to power.

Vanuatu has launched its revised Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) at the Pacific Islands Forum Economic Ministers Meeting in Port Vila, where inadequate and inaccessible climate finances dominated discussions.

Pasifika women in leadership across New Zealand were recognised at the recently held Women in Governance awards at Parliament.

American Samoa still feeling tremors, drop in crime in Tonga, and independence leader says Tahitians not beggars

The Samoa government is questioning how seasonal workers were allowed to leave Samoa for New Zealand this week without approval.

Football semi-final line-ups now known, Pacific Oceania's great start in tennis event, and Olympic officials are in Tahiti

Samoa Airways will take out a loan from the Unit Trust of Samoa so it can partly settle redundancy pay for staff.

The United States government has launched a $US10 million five-year project to stop human trafficking in the Marshall Islands, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Tonga.

The police in Solomon Islands have detected 13 live bombs at Taro airport in Choiseul Province.

New Caledonia's southern region has started a vaccination campaign against monkeypox.

The Cook Islands meteorological authorities are pleading for community cooperation as the main island Rarotonga experiences a drought that's expected to last for about two months.

With Samoa fully reopening its borders on 1 August, another Pacific country moved tentatively forwards after two years of border closures and little or no international tourism.

The authorities in American Samoa remain on alert due to extensive underwater volcano activities.

First covid death in Marshall Islands, election results near in Cook Islands, and Santa says Accord meeting is too soon

Teen dies after suffering rugby injury, football leading way on climate action, and Pacific Games turtle mascot named

Samoa's Head of State, Afioga Tuimalealiifano Va'aletoa Sualauvi II, will become the 29th Chancellor and President of the University of the South Pacific.

The Samoa Law Society has joined a court challenge by two senior members of the opposition Human Rights Protection Party against the Speaker of Parliament.