The Cook Islands – a tropical nation located about halfway between Australia and Hawaii – heavily relies on tourism to drive ...

Glide above the postcard-perfect South Pacific with this breathtaking drone video of the Cook Islands. Witness the stunning, ...

Let the islands’ people decide whether deepening ties with China reflect their collective aspirations – and whether the constitutional relationship with New Zealand still serves their future. From ...

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There are many great places to go for amazing views—Fiji, Bora Bora, Hawaii, the Caribbean—but what’s great about the Cook Islands is that it’s not as well-known, so the crowds that you find elsewhere ...

The Cook Islands is set to cut its colonial ties by changing the island nation’s name to one that reflects its Polynesian culture. Republic of North Macedonia born amid mass protests Philippines ...

A new online dashboard launched last week provides real-time updates on fuel stocks in the Cook Islands, indicating there is ...

A team of international scientists visiting the Cook Islands have shared their research on sea level rise with the Rarotonga ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- The 10 days of FestPAC brought a lot of goodwill and cultural celebration from nations all around the Pacific to Honolulu. A sequence of events over the two days afterwards ...

White sandy beaches, clear blue waters, and the tranquil sound of the ocean — the Pacific is widely marketed as a paradisiacal escape. Every year, more than a million tourists choose to holiday in the ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand has suspended millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands over the “breadth and content” of agreements the smaller Pacific nation has made with China, ...

Rarotonga, Cook Islands — In a back room of a government ministry in Rarotonga, the largest of the Cook Islands, a former shark smuggler keeps watch over a wall of monitors. They display a satellite ...