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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea politics -- or for that matter, Parliament -- will no longer be the same any more...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...