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Four more positive Covid cases were reported in Kiribati; Tonga eases restrictions further; 331 new cases in Samoa and more PNG rugby league players getting NRL exposure

Samoa University to reopen to classes, year long celebration to mark independence in Samoa, and entries open for New Caledonia's elections.

PNG Prime Minister to seek damages against UBS, Cook Islands honours its war veterans, Samoa Director General of Health faces scrutiny over CAT scanner, bid to raise minimum wage introduced in…

Covid-19 testing of Marshall Islanders in managed quarantine saw the largest number test positive for Covid-19 since managed repatriation started nearly two years ago.

Leading Pacific news in brief today; Quarantine rules easing in Niue, low Covid-19 community spread in the Northern Marianas and a New Zealand man dies while sailing in the Marquesas Islands.

Northern Marianas has zero COVID-19 hospitalisations; American Samoa's eighth covid death; and call for NZ to do more to limit climate change

Taking the long road to remote areas to help crop production; slashed car duty blamed for Port Moresby congestion; and ANZ Bank pulls out.

Samoa records 125 new community coronavirus cases; A third person has died of Covid-19 in American Samoa, and more

Māori have the highest rate of community cases of Covid-19 and while case numbers are dropping, the number in hospital continues to rise. Watch the latest Covid-19 update here.

The number of Covid -19 cases in Samoa has climbed to 196.

An Auckland nurse says a lucrative incentive payment has not fixed the city's dire hospital staffing shortage. Audio

Vanuatu's newly appointed Minister of Health Bruno Leingkon says the government is preparing to offer short term contracts for retired nurses and third year student nurses to combat a staffing…

In today's sports news - Crusaders pushed by Moana Pasifika, Hurricanes Super Rugby Aupiki players contract Covid-19, Ko on the leaderboard in Singapore and no more Russian F1 races.

Kiribati govt relaxes travel between islands; French Polynesia records over 1000 Covid cases; Two more people die of Covid in CNMI, and more.

American Samoans in 'disbelief' over community Covid-19 cases; Tonga records 287 Covid cases; Two more Covid cases in the Cook Islands, and more

Analysis - International analyst Geoffrey Miller considers options for New Zealand's response to Russia's incursion into Ukraine.

Vanuatu's govt confirms four Covid-19 cases; French Polynesia Covid cases continue to rise; Kiribati govt extends nationwide lockdown; Covid-19 outbreak in Tonga's Hu'atolitoli prison, and more.

Over 100 Covid-19 cases in Tonga; Kiribati extends curfew as second Covid-19 death recorded; New Caledonia records over 1000 new cases, and more.

Tonga's PM confirms Covid-19 variant in Kingdom is Omicron; Kiribati records 222 new Covid-19 cases; Fiji reports two more deaths, 75 new Covid-19 cases, and more.

Several hundred more cases of Covid in Solomon Islands; Kiribati records first Covid death; nearly 12,000 in isolation in New Caledonia, and more.

In today's sports news - England coach steps down, Munster coach dies and Emma Gilmour commits to Rally New Zealand.