When team Cook Islands walks out during the opening ceremony of the 2025 Pacific Mini Games in Palau, it will be led by two locals who put sport and community at the forefront.

The funding cut leaves the Cook Islands facing a sudden financial shortfall, prompting warnings that Wellington’s approach could backfire.

The money is part of NZ $200 million directed to the Cook Islands by New Zealand over the past three years as part of an almost 60-year-old free association compact.

What began as a quiet series of infrastructure deals between the Cook Islands and China has erupted into a diplomatic stand-off, with New Zealand halting millions in aid and Pacific leaders ...

Quarterback Makena Cook, who was injured during girls' soccer season, will be back for Lancers' flag football team and will have to navigate a rule change.

Tim Crockett and his son, Harrison, have successfully rowed over 2,400 nautical miles in hopes to break records and spread awareness. What has become a summer tradition in the islands, the 4th ...

Australian mushroom cook is convicted of triple murder after serving a fatal beef Wellington lunch Australian woman Erin Patterson has been found guilty of murdering three of her estranged husband ...

SYDNEY - Leaders of the four biggest Pacific Islands nations have delayed adopting a joint security strategy that could provide an opening for Beijing, against a backdrop of increasing rivalry ...

A woman died early Thursday after falling from a power line tower she had climbed in Lincoln. The incident prompted police to close a portion of 56th Street for hours.

BLACKSBURG, Va. — Ten Washington County high school students fell through a utility grate while touring the Virginia Tech campus Thursday morning. All were evaluated and three were taken to a ...

Key Medicaid cuts will have to be struck from the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” in the Senate, if Republicans want to pass it with a simple majority, but hospital associations are still ...

BROADALBIN - A 21-year-old graduate of Schalmont High School in Rotterdam was killed in Monday evening's jet ski crash on the Great Sacandaga Lake near Broadalbin, Fulton County Sheriff's ...