A sailor who arrived on a repatriation flight to Samoa last Friday has been placed in isolation after a test showed he had signs of the Covid-19 virus.

Bougainville's President has firmly rejected a claim that an Australian company, Caballus Mining, will operate the Panguna mine.

The Samoa rugby sevens teams are continuing to prepare as if the Tokyo Olympics will go ahead in six months time.

A fisheries initiative has been launched in the Marshall Islands that aims to identify how the western Pacific nation can expand its involvement in the "value chain" of the tuna fishery.

The world's largest secondary schools Pacific and Maori cultural festival, Auckland Polyfest, is back for 2021.

All public school students in the CNMI will return to campus next month as in-person learning returns, nearly a year after the Covid-19 pandemic shut public schools.

Homeless Tahitians are to receive a new day centre outside French Polynesia's capital, Papeete.

American Samoa is vowing to have all health care workers, first responders and at-risk seniors fully vaccinated against Covid-19 before a repatriation flight arrives from Hawai'i this Friday.

The Cook Islands government is taking a 'wait and see' approach to the resumption of flights from New Zealand.

Cabinet reshuffle in Tonga, no new cases of Covid-19 in Fiji, Samoa govt considers downsizing some Ministries and more.

Samoa is mourning the death of former rugby and league internationals Su'a Saini Lemamea and Masada Iosefa.

New Caledonia's pro-independence Palika party has restated that it wants the next referendum on independence from France to be held before the next year's French presidential election.

There are fears members of a Tongan church in Auckland at the centre of a residency scam are afraid to file a complaint in case they are deported.

Pasifika healthcare providers are expected to play an integral part of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout in New Zealand.

Australia's government has announced it will provide US$111-million for Covid-19 vaccination in Papua New Guinea over three years.

Bougainville's president has met with a reclusive rebel, self-styled king in a rare sign of reconciliation.

Covid-19 claims another life in Tahiti, concerns in PNG of low rates of Covid-19 testing and Samoa 7s teams trim squads ahead of Olympic qualifiers and more.

Samoa's Electoral Commissioner says there have been no complaints received about candidates trying to curry favour with voters.