The incongruous sight of tourists enjoying Maui’s tropical beaches while search-and-rescue teams trawl building ruins and waters for victims of the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century has outraged some residents.

Canadian officials ordered the evacuation of the Northwest Territories’ capital of Yellowknife and several smaller communities on Wednesday as a massive wildfire threatened the town of Hay River overnight.

Fiji Water Flying Fijians’ flanker, Meli Derenalagi, holds the view that France continues to nurse wounds from their defeat to Fiji five years ago on their own turf.

In his address at the Macuata Provincial Council meeting yesterday, Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka emphasized the need to create a strategic plan for development to help address rural to urban drift in the country.

Royals Club conditioning coach Antonio Raboiliku says the match between Natabua High School and Marist Brothers High School in the Vodafone Deans Under-18 grade will be an interesting one.

The United States of America’s partnership model is for countries in the Pacific to be economically independent.

Amateur dancer Omowunmi Otunuyi, who is deaf, delighted an audience in the Nigerian city of Ibadan, as she performed with her dance troupe in a show intended to challenge preconceptions about deafness.

In a move to fortify the Technical and Vocational Education and Training sector and bolster the nursing domain, the Higher Education Commission of Fiji has disbursed a substantial grant of $103.596 million.

USAID Administrator Samantha Power is confident women and girls will be stronger if guided and given the right support.

The Ministry of Rural and Maritime Development is looking forward to scaling up the Seafarers Entrepreneurial Assistance (SEA) program.

The Wallabies’ World Cup campaign has been hit with yet another hurdle with attack coach Brad Davis quitting just hours before their flight to France.

Maui’s emergency management chief on Wednesday defended his agency’s decision against sounding sirens during last week’s deadly wildfire amid questions about whether doing so might have saved lives.