Police media and strategic advisor Trevor Pitt reported a “relatively good long weekend” with no recent numbers of drunk driving or significantly impactful road accidents. According to Pitt, most ...

New Zealand has paused millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands, citing a breach of trust and lack of consultation regarding the Cook Islands’ recent agreements with China. New Zealand has ...

Te Tuhi Kelly on 28/06/2025 As talk grows around “full sovereignty” and aid independence, let’s be real, this isn’t a simple path. It’s a complex journey shaped by decades of agreements like the 1980 ...

The Cook Islands joined global leaders, experts, and stakeholders at the 2025 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP2025) in Geneva, Switzerland, from June 2–6, under the auspices of the ...

A Cook Islander’s remarkable journey has earned royal recognition for her services to sport and Pacific communities in Aotearoa New Zealand. Annie Scoon started playing softball at the age of nine, a ...

Cook Islands engages with countries “who respect our sovereignty”, says Prime Minister Mark Brown, calling New Zealand’s decision to pause $18.2 million in development assistance “patronising” and ...

The 2025/26 Cook Islands National Budget, totalling $336,135,968, has been scrutinised and reviewed by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which has recommended its passage in Parliament. The ...

Though the moment has passed, the impact of Tiaretaina Raera Brown’s journey to the Pacific Australian Emerging Leaders’ Summit in Canberra last November is still being felt - both in her life and in ...

Opposition Member of Parliament Teariki Heather has raised concerns about the funding allocated to families for funeral assistance. Heather said a lot of Cook Islanders returning to the country from ...

Many of the Cook Islands short films emerged from the Through Our Lens programme (2018–2019), a collaboration supported by the New Zealand High Commission and delivered in partnership with UNESCO, ...

Cook Islands government anticipated the multi-million-dollar core sector support funding ‘pause’ from New Zealand towards the 2025/26 Budget, Prime Minister Mark Brown told Parliament yesterday. Cook ...

Te Marae Ora (TMO) Ministry of Health will conduct a feasibility study on school-based water fluoridation to combat alarming rates of tooth decay in Cook Islands children, aiming to reduce it by 50 ...