Stories by Talei Anderson

Thirty players have been inducted into Fiji Rugby's first ever women's high performance academy, in preparation for the 2021 World Cup.

Papua New Guinea's Digicel Cup will be the second major rugby league competition in the world, following the NRL, to get underway this weekend post Covid-19.

The Vanuatu women's beach volleyball team are set to boost a community-based tournament in celebration of the nations 40 years of independence.

The Fiji Football Association is hopeful its national team can make history by being the first-ever Pacific Island women's team to qualify for the World Cup.

Former Manu Samoa internationals have thrown their support behind the idea of a local coach leading the team into the next World Cup.

Local rugby competitions will get back underway in Samoa this weekend after Covid-19 forced all sporting activities to a standstill in March.

Samoan-born New Zealand actor, writer and director, Oscar Kightley, will front the first-ever Pacific focused sport show on New Zealand television.

She's the latest sibling to represent the Cook Islands in canoe slalom, but Jane Nicholas is claiming a family first after being named the Cook Islands Sportswoman of the Year.

The Fiji Football Association says about 400 players will be financially assisted by the regional OFC Solidarity Fund aimed at helping families reliant on the sport's income.

The Samoa rugby community is mourning the loss of a woman who helped the country win its first Hong Kong Sevens title in 1993. Audio

Vanuatu's rugby league captain has thrown his support behind the Pacifique Treize bid to enter Australia's Intrust Super Cup, saying it would boost the sport in Melanesia.

Sir Gordon Tietjens is renowned for his work in Rugby Sevens, but that hasn't helped him remain at the helm of Samoa's team.

The Samoa Rugby Union says its Sevens team will have the opportunity to explore new options and rebuild for the Olympics now that Sir Gordon Tietjens has resigned.

A former Samoa rugby league international Constantine Mika celebrates birth of son in lockdown

An opportunity to compete in PNG's local domestic rugby league competition, the Digicel Cup, is on the cards for the PNG Hunters after the Queensland-based Intrust Super Cup competition was cancelled…

An opportunity to compete in PNG's local domestic rugby league competition, the Digicel Cup, is on the cards for the PNG Hunters after the Queensland-based Intrust Super Cup competition was cancelled…

A Samoan national representative rugby team is having an extended stay in New Zealand after being caught in the lockdown on their way home from Australia.

A number of Pacific athletes have expressed relief at the decision to postpone the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Tonga's National Rugby League is filing an appeal with the International Court of Arbitration for Sport in a final bid to remain the governing body for the sport in the kingdom.

Checkpoints in the Far North running testing stations and turning tourists away with no isolation plans have been scaled back with organisers saying they have achieved their desired effect.

A new era for the Papua New Guinea Hunters rugby league team commences on Sunday in Brisbane.

PNG Orchids captain Elsie Albert is hoping to create more rugby league history in 2020.

An Olympic-bound Samoan sailor says the cost of participation is preventing more Pacific sailors from pursuing the sport.

Papua New Guinea sailor Te Ariki Numa is following in his dad's footsteps after qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics.

Rugby League Samoa says the inaugural Rugby League World Nines Confederation Cup tournament debut in Apia later this year will boost the development of the sport in the country.