NZ’s new climate crisis plan: ‘Blueprint for more resilient communities’
By Hamish Cardwell, RNZ News climate reporter
For the first time Aotearoa New Zealand has a long-term strategy to deal with the effects of climate...
O’Neill ‘bombshell’ throws top position in PNG elections wide open
By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
People’s National Congress party leader Peter O’Neill has blown the race for the Papua New Guinea prime minister’s job...
Break this cycle of sorcery-related violence in Papua New Guinea
COMMENTARY: By Anton Lutz
The sun rises over a strange landscape. Come with me and meet these people over here.
Even though they have stayed awake...
Solomon Islands orders national broadcaster SIBC to ‘self-censor news’
By Annika Burgess of ABC Pacific Beat
The Solomon Islands government has ordered the country's national broadcaster to self-censor its news and other paid programmes...
Philippines’ People Power hero passes as dictator’s son takes over rule
By Diana G. Mendoza in Manila
The Philippine media described him as “Steady Eddie,” a warrior and survivor, and an accidental hero of the world-renowned...
Campaign over Solomons media freedom ‘misguided’, claims PM’s office
Solomon Times
The Solomon islands Prime Minister's office (PMO) has accused local news media of being involved in a "war on media freedom” that is...
Cooks’ newcomers United look set to take five seats in election
RNZ Pacific
The Cook Islands Parliament looks set for a shake up after today's general elections.
In preliminary results, the ruling Cook Islands Party has performed...
PNG police hunt for 15 Enga election suspects over ‘gun threats’
By Miriam Zarriga and Marjorie Finkeo of the PNG Post-Courier
Police are closing in on 15 candidates in Enga who allegedly used guns to threaten...
NZ to provide $15m to support Samoa over climate change action
By Giles Dexter, RNZ News political reporter
New Zealand will provide $15 million to support Samoa with its climate change priorities.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern made...
Celebrating 35 years of te reo Māori as an official language,...
By Ashleigh McCaull, RNZ News Te Ao Māori reporter
On the 35th anniversary of te reo Māori becoming an official language, the Māori Language Commission...
Pruaitch joins growing list of PNG’s major election upsets
By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea politics -- or for that matter, Parliament -- will no longer be the same any more...
World Bank grant to boost Vanuatu reforms for squatter settlements
By Hilaire Bule, RNZ Pacific correspondent in Port Vila
A VT2 billion grant from the World Bank Group is set to reform unplanned urban settlements...
Despite what political leaders say, New Zealand’s health workforce is in...
ANALYSIS: By Paula Lorgelly, University of Auckland
Late last month, New Zealand Health Minister Andrew Little stated what most who work in health already know.
Healthcare...
Marjorie Tua’inekore Crocombe – An exceptional Pacific life
By Rod Dixon in the Cook Islands News
Marjorie and Ron Crocombe lived up to exacting standards in their personal and professional lives and their...
Nick Rockel: ‘Over and out from me’ – Dr Ashley Bloomfield
COMMENTARY: By Nick Rockel
On Friday I watched Ashley Bloomfield’s last afternoon health update. After all we’ve been through over the past couple of years,...
Cook Islanders get ready to go to the polls – choice...
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
Cook Islanders go to the polls tomorrow to choose a new 24 member Parliament.
Voters will have four parties...
Russia bars entry to 32 New Zealanders in sanctions response
RNZ News
Russia's foreign ministry has slapped New Zealand journalists, officials and an academic with sanctions for supporting what it called the country's "Russophobic agenda".
The...
Niue enters covid-19 red alert level as case numbers rise to...
RNZ Pacific
The government of Niue has announced the country will move to covid-19 alert level red after it recorded nine new cases of the...
PNG’s extension of return of writs date ‘unconstitutional’, says former chief...
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
The two-week extension on the return of Papua New Guinea's general election writs date has been knocked as unconstitutional.
A...
NZ should show real solidarity with the Pacific by embracing climate...
COMMENTARY: By Prue Taylor in Auckland
From 1949 to 1996 more than 300 nuclear devices were detonated in the Pacific. In the mid-1990s a generation...
NZ’s Ashley Bloomfield bows out – a look at his key...
RNZ News
After guiding New Zealand through two and a half years of a pandemic, Dr Ashley Bloomfield's time as Director-General of Health has come...
Ajay Bhai Amrit: Freedom of the press – Fiji’s ranking a...
COMMENTARY: By Ajay Bhai Amrit in Suva
Bula readers. As some of you might be aware, I am a member of various media bodies and...