RNZ Pacific

A red alert remains in place for Vanuatu's Tafea Province due to tropical cyclone Seru.

A new tropical cyclone is about to be named east of Vanuatu.

Cyclone forecasters at the Fiji Metservice have confirmed to RNZ Pacific that the system is expected to intensify into a category 2 overnight.

Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu called on people to put aside personal interests and "engage in respectful dialogue" during his opening address for the 2025 parliamentary term on Monday.

The parliament session began with some objections to the proceedings, as the constitutionality of Prime Minister Fiame's minority government has been challenged in the courts.

Multiple warnings are still in place, including a heavy rain warning for the whole of Fiji.

The headman for Sawana village on Vanua Balavu in Lau says villagers need water and food because the farm they rely on has been completely damaged.

Solomon Islands National University head Dr Transform Aqorau says for decades, the region has felt traditional development partners have not delivered enough tangible benefits.

The drugs, with a street value of FJ$2billion, were seized in January 2024 during a raid on a vacant house under construction in the tourist down of Nadi.

Rae is expected to become a severe tropical cyclone later on Monday.

Two cyclones have formed in the Pacific region one in Fiji waters, and the other in the Coral Sea.

Palestine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned Prime Minister Rabuka's decision and is demanding the Fijian government "immediately reverse this provocative decision."

Pacific Blue Line collective, made up of women, youth, faith-based, and environmental organisations, is demanding "for an outright ban on deep sea mining" as Pacific leaders meet in Fiji.

Fijian police commissioner Rusiate Tudravu says the force is focused on "disrupting, destabilising and dismantling" home-based illicit drug production labs in the country.

The BPNG board said it has not been presented with any material to doubts about the integrity of Elizabeth Genia. Audio

The president of the autonomous Papua New Guinea region of Bougainville says recent flare-ups of gun-related violence are unacceptable.

The Cook Islands prime minister says he is aware of the strong interest in the outcomes of his visit to China.

The Solomon Islands government has lifted the 'stop notice' that restricted judges of the recent Miss Pacific Islands Pageant from leaving the country.

Leiataualesa Jerry Brunt has been at the centre of controversy following the crowning night of the 2025 Miss Pacific Islands, which was won by Samoa's Litara Ieremia-Allan.

He is the country's fifth prime minister in four years and will lead a coalition government made up of five political parties.

The Samoa Victim Support Group is calling on Samoan families and communities to take child abuse seriously.

Laijipa Naulivou told local media that "this gay problem" was one of the reasons the women's national team was underperforming.

A US policy expert is calling Donald Trump's shut down of the United States Agency for International Development 'completely unprecedented' and alarming.

Laijipa Naulivou, the first woman to captain the Fijian women's rugby team, told the Fiji Sun that "being gay for women in rugby" is something she opposed during her playing days.

The People's Alliance Party has given the former Fiji Women and Children's Minister, who was sacked from Cabinet after the leak of a private video of her dancing naked, another chance.