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The Parliament Clerk in the Cook Islands has been sacked after the cost of building a new debating chamber blew out by over $US222,000.

Pasifika in Auckland are embracing the opportunity to take up te reo Māori courses in increasing numbers.

A Cook Islands MP says her constituency of Rakahanga has made a "courageous decision" in asking Hawaiian freight vessel Kwai not to call into port there because of fears over the coronavirus.

A United Nations human rights committee has grilled the Cook Islands government over its classification of people in same-sex relationships as criminals.

On Saipan, the tourist area resembles a ghost town. Restaurants are being shuttered, shops reducing hours, resorts and water parks sit empty. Audio

The Cook Islands government should not spend any more money on Rarotonga's costly water system, says the Opposition.

Customary authorities in Wallis and Futuna have decided to ban a planned visit by a German cruise ship to protect the population against the spread of the coronavirus.

Four people are in isolation in Fiji and are being tested for the Covid-19 coronavirus.

The Cook Islands government won't compromise the well-being of its people for economic gains, says prime minister Henry Puna.

Rain is unlikely to be enough to break droughts in the North Island, as the lower North and South Island experience the first of chill of autumn.

A delegation from Micronesia has told the UN Child Rights Committee the FSM faces unique challenges because of its political and geographic make-up.

The head of Tuvalu's delegation to this week's UN Child Rights Committee session in Apia says climate change poses huges challenges in delivering services to young people in the country.

A large cruise ship carrying passengers from Italy has been banned from the Cook Islands' atoll of Aitutaki amid fears about the coronavirus.

The Pacific Community has encouraged members of the United Nations Child Rights Committee to make the most of their time in Samoa.

The Covid-19 coronavirus has forced New Zealand's foreign minister, Winston Peters, to postpone an official trip to the Pacific.