Nauru is now battling its first Covid-19 outbreak in the community.

Properties have been damaged and roads flooded as a storm front crossed the lower North Island on Thursday afternoon.

The Niue government is remaining tight lipped over the Taiwanese fishing vessel that ran aground on a Niue reef last week.

American Samoa has launched a new programme to tackle drug use.

There have been 9570 new community cases of COVID-19 and another 32 deaths reported today.

The Biden administration warns the Solomon Islands that the United States will take unspecified action against the South Pacific nation should its recently-concluded cooperation agreement with China pose a threat to US.

The Solomon Islands has gone through with a security cooperation framework with China despite concerns from regional and international partners.

Early reports from Neiafu indicate that the couple were Ben and Rochelle Neill who owned Hakau Adventures, a business offering snorkelling tours in Vava’u.

NIWA scientists are set to travel to Tonga to survey the seabed around the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai volcano after its eruption earlier this year.

Late last week, a proposed security treaty between China and a tiny chain of islands in the Pacific sent shock waves across the ocean.

A draft security cooperation agreement, between China and Solomon Islands, has been leaked on social media.

The Samoa Government has extended its alert level three lockdown for another two weeks, due to the rapid spread of the Covid-19 in the community.