Sometimes, the North Sea just decides to take a shot at you. Henk Buitjes knows what it’s like. Once, it happened at night in rough weather. The Dutch shrimp fisher was hauling his nets aboard ...

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown has slammed New Zealand for what he calls a "patronising" approach over its China deal. This week it was revealed that nearly $20m of New Zealand funding to the ...

Photo provided by the Thousand Islands Arts Center CHAPMAN: And it's a juried show, so you had to sift through the submissions you got as well. LOEW: Yes, and we got a lot of good submissions.

A recently-married Texas couple has spent over 120 days apart after the bride was detained by ICE during their honeymoon in the US Virgin Islands. Taahir Shaikh of Arlington says his wife, Ward ...

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon brought up New Zealand’s frustrations over China’s engagement with the Cook Islands in his meeting with Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Beijing yesterday.

North Carolina Democratic Gov. Josh Stein vetoed his first bills on Friday, blocking for now Republican legislation that would let adults carry concealed handguns without a permit and make state ...

Confusion and concern is mounting over a growing spat between New Zealand and Cook Islands, which analysts believe could result in stronger ties between the Pacific island nation and China.

The world’s biggest islands (Australia is an island-continent, rather than an island, so doesn’t make the list) have bigger wilderness areas, from barely touched forests in destinations such ...

New Zealand said the Cook Islands did not properly consult on the documents ahead of the signing, thereby breaching the arrangement between the two countries. Anna Powles, associate professor in ...

Indonesia and Singapore have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop a solar manufacturing supply chain in Indonesia’s Riau Islands province, as part of broader plans to enable cross ...

Was it a mistake for New Zealand to pull funding for the Cook Islands? How bad do the optics look here? Shane Jones is floating the idea of getting rid of regional Government altogether.

But Koehler said the islands differ from the rest of the region because they were so isolated. The cuisine developed with few outside influences, with locals relying on heavily on fishing ...