The owners of an island volcano in New Zealand where 22 tourists and local guides died in an eruption had their criminal conviction for failing to keep visitors safe thrown out by a judge on Friday.

What started as a “normal day” salvaging wood in New Zealand eventually led to a large-scale excavation that uncovered more than 450 fragments of a historic canoe.

Driven by poverty, around 485 people signed up as indentured ... In 2018, the median annual income for Cook Islands Māori in New Zealand was $22,500, equivalent to 65 percent of the median ...

Cook Islands Prime Minister survived a no-confidence vote Wednesday, blaming “misinformation” from former colonial ruler New Zealand for destabilising his Pacific country. Parliament voted 13 ...

The New Zealand Herald reports that a father and son duo combing a local beach for wood may have made one of the most important discoveries in New Zealand history. The pair came across strange-looking ...

WELLINGTON - Growing ties between Cook Islands and China ... have not been released publicly. New Zealand has complained about a lack of transparency around the agreements signed by Brown with ...