As floods engulfed large parts of central Russia, residents of one village defied advice to flee their homes and started building a homemade dam.

There’s sweat on your brow. You start to feel your heart beat a little faster. The acrobatics you feel in your stomach are tumbling just enough to make you mildly queasy. You get a little wobbly in the knees as the anxiety, stress and anticipation shoot through every limb of your body.

Attorney General Siromi Turaga, who also heads the Fiji Rugby Union has emphasized the need to enhance the capabilities of local coaches, particularly for elite-level competition.

Thousands of dollars have been recovered by the Ministry of Employment in unpaid wages and benefits owed to workers in the last seven months.

A 28-year-old man has died following a road accident in Tabia, Labasa this morning.

Fiji Secondary Schools Athletes Association general secretary Biu Colati says there’s a slight price increase for this year’s Fiji Finals grandstand tickets.

Rooster Chicken Fijian Drua women’s wing Atelaite Buna says they stand ready and firm to face the Western Force in their Super W semi-final match tomorrow afternoon.

The Immigration Department is handling a substantial rise in passport applications ranging between 4,000 and 6,000 each month.

Fiji has lost 70,000 to 80,000 people in the last 18 months, many of them with significant technical training and experience.

Much like “Masters of the Air,” “Franklin” marks the latest Apple TV+ historical series that feels like a companion to an earlier (and superior) HBO production – in this case, “John Adams.”

There are discussions on the need to formulate a national land use policy for Fiji.

Three Russian missiles slammed into the city centre of Chernihiv in northern Ukraine, killing at least 17 people, wounding dozens more and damaging civilian buildings, officials said.