The Latest Breaking News from South Pacific

A surge of drugs is engulfing the paradisal South Pacific, as cartels and triads use far-flung island nations to channel narcotics across the globe, top police and UN officials have told AFP. Pacific islands such as Fiji and Tonga sit at the crossroads of largely unpatrolled ocean-trafficking routes used to…

The PNG NRL bid has strategic support of South Pacific nations as Anthony Albanese said "the final details" of government funding for the bid has been reached.

Traumatized survivors of Papua New Guinea’s massive landslide are hesitating to move to safer ground as the South Pacific island nation’s authorities prepare to use heavy machinery to clear debris and risk trigging another landslide

The Papua New Guinea government said more than 2,000 people are believed to have been buried alive in a landslide in the South Pacific island nation

Australia is preparing to send aircraft and other equipment to help at the site of the deadly landslide in Papua New Guinea as rain in the South Pacific nation’s mountainous interior is raising fears that the tons of rubble that buried hundreds of villagers will become dangerously unstable

Students stranded in the South Pacific appealed to social media to get them home.

Solomon Islands lawmakers elected former Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele as prime minister Thursday in a development that suggests the South Pacific island nation will maintain close ties with China.

Solomon Islands' general election amid China ties shift and economic concerns. Voters weigh in on diplomatic relations and domestic issues. US and Australi...

Feleti Teo becomes Tuvalu's new prime minister, potentially affecting China-Taiwan relations and Australia's security treaty in the South Pacific.