Weekend
New era for Rarotonga’s golf club
Thursday September 12, 2019Big ideas are taking shape at the Rarotonga Golf Course where an enthusiastic new management team has embarked on an ambitious plan to give the old clubhouse a new look for a new era. Visiting journalist and keen golfer from New Zealand Gray Clapham reports.
Rarotonga’s Golf Club has always been a gem in the rough.
Inside the locked gates of the new water intake
Monday September 09, 2019It’s been raining since 2013, says Ake Utanga.
The land specialist for government’s Project Management Unit is mulling over when the last serious dry spell was, when water stopped running from Rarotonga taps. She reckons there’s been rain for a while.
80yo unbowed in face of tragedies
Saturday September 07, 2019Maraea Mata is the last of 15 siblings still alive – so when the matriarch met all her brothers and sisters dozens and dozens of offspring at a family reunion, it was overwhelming.
‘My disease has no cure’
Tuesday August 20, 2019Cook Islands News publisher John Woods faces up to his own drug addiction.
I used to have a meth habit.
Dangerous Matavera radio mast coming down
Saturday June 08, 2019Cook Islands Investment Corporation will next week announce its plan to safely dismantle the rusty 107m structure.
Excited to be bringing family to Rarotonga
Saturday May 25, 2019KIWI JOURNALIST Jonathan Milne is the new editor of Cook Islands News. He takes up his new role on June 4 after relocating to Rarotonga from Auckland where he was until recently editor of the Sunday Star-Times.
Cooper adjusts career focus
Saturday May 18, 2019Rarotonga’s sought-after wedding photographer Melanie Cooper is ready to lift the veil, so to speak, and spread her wings within new and exciting projects.
Seabed mining – a precautionary approach
Saturday May 11, 2019Major impacts and EIAs
Since 1992 the United Nations has encouraged its members to apply the Precautionary Approach
Auckland Catholic youth on Raro
Saturday April 20, 2019The Cook Islands Catholic Community Auckland (CICCA) youth pilgrimage is visiting the island for a religious and cultural immersion during holy week and Easter.
