Moana Minerals chief executive Hans Smit says the company is taking its deep-sea mining message to the Pa Enua this week in a bid to win over public opinion – ‘not with spin, but with facts’.
Cook Islands Ports Authority (CIPA) has confirmed that they are working closely with the Ministry of Finance and Economic Management (MFEM) and Cook Islands Investment Corporation (CIIC) on a solution to clear its remaining ADB loan repayment.
Cook Islands Immigration wants to reintroduce mandatory breaks and permit limitations for expat workers, which have been criticised as unfair and a step backwards.
The growing presence and influence of organised gang members from New Zealand with Cook Islands heritage is causing serious concern for local authorities, with Police confirming that the Cook Islands is one of the destinations affected by transnational gang mobility across the Pacific.
Opposition leader Tina Browne is calling for a “national pause” on the Cook Islands’ deep sea mining ambitions, warning that the country is risking its oceanic heritage and identity by charging ahead with a decision that could have irreversible consequences.
Two officers from the Ministry of Marine Resources (MMR) recently collaborated with the US Coast Guard in the Cook Islands Economic Exclusive Zone (EEZ) for approximately 14 days.
Te Tu’anga Taporoporo/National Environment Service (NES) has released the Rarotonga Southern Passages Environmental Management Plan 2025–2028 for public consultation and comment.
In a thrilling repeat of last week’s clash, the Town Blues have claimed victory over the Country Maroons in Game 2 of the Cook Islands Rugby League Town vs Country Origins series.
The Tiger Sharks have been crowned the new champions of the Cook Islands Cricket Association 2025 T20 Super Slam Cricket Competition.
When Takuva’ine and Arorangi premier netball teams meet on Saturday, it will be eight years since the two sides were last drawn to play each other in a Rarotonga club knockout final.
History is in the making as the Cook Islands Under-17 Beach Handball squad departed Rarotonga on Wednesday, en route to Hammamet, Tunisia, for their debut appearance at the 2025 IHF U17 Men’s Beach Handball World Championship, set for June 17 to 22, 2025.
Autism Cook Islands recently conducted their inaugural training session in collaboration with Badminton Cook Islands late last month.
As Oceans Week draws to a close, we celebrate that nearly 40 countries are now calling for a moratorium on Deep-sea Mining (DSM).
With the announcement in the Cook Islands News that a freight hike is set to drive up Cook Islands prices possibly by 30 per cent, there has never been a better time to legalise the personal cultivation of medicinal pakalolo by patients in order to treat their illnesses and save them heaps of money.
So, Police are “investigating” alleged after hours liquor sales at the Golf Club? Why waste ink and newsprint on telling the sober public of this allegation?
Does life imitate art or art imitate life? The past couple of three days has been a mind boggling numbing unreal stream of imagery and actions, protests parades and political posturing in powerful and dangerous ways that we are witnessing first hand at home on the couch on our phone in paradise while the sun shines and the roosters crow and the dogs bark at nothing, write Ruta Mave.
In recent weeks, the Cook Islands declared a rā‘ui toroa — a national whale sanctuary — expanding protection across vast swathes of our moana and Ocean, Thomas Wynne writes.
I anau ia a Papa Tere Tarapu i te ra taingauru ma varu (18) o Mati, mataiti tai mano, iva anere e toru ngauru ma varu (1938). E varu ngauru ma itu (87) ona mataiti.
She’s a beauty pageant queen and the first Cook Islander to walk the Miss Universe stage, but Carmena Wong has taken those 80s memories and flipped them into a 2025 pageant walk celebrating the flair, fashion and x-factor of Cook Islands women over 55.
A leading Cook Islands resort group celebrated the graduation of 42 staff members who participated in a programme designed to enhance leadership potential and skills within the hospitality industry.
With her strong desire and enthusiasm to continue supporting the people of Tutakimoa and their land, Mareana Papera-Howard was elected as the new Pu Tapere.
Tereora College teams made a clean sweep, winning the top three prizes at the CITC Pump the Beats Te Emo’anga Tangi Kaara 2025 secondary schools drumming competition on Thursday night.
Kindness and faith are not measured by what we have, but by what we are willing to give – even in scarcity, writes Kayla Kaimarama Willie of the Latter-day Saints.
Cook Islands lawyer Lavi Rokoika has been appointed as the acting Commissioner of the Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption (FICAC).
Prime Minister Mark Brown has congratulated Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on his re-election.
The Cook Islands and French Polynesia continue to deepen cooperation, convening the first technical meeting to review the Air Services Agreement (ASA) and further progress its development.
An ocean conservation non-profit has condemned the United States President's latest executive order aimed at boosting the deep sea mining industry.