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Te Marae Ora out to prevent dengue outbreak
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Reported domestic ‘violent’ incidents on the rise: Police
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PM Brown vows to change law
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Call for government to address Aitutaki water shortage issue
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Tragedy: Mother drowns trying to save daughter
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‘QR’ effectively becomes ‘KR’
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A year of ‘marked progress’
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Moana target 2025 World Cup
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‘No safety risk’: Airport waiting for funding to swap cracked slabs
12 November 2022
Missing teenager: ‘We’re not sure whether he is still alive’
15 November 2022
Stricter rules for e-cigarettes proposed in Amendment Bill
15 November 2022
We’re halfway there!
16 November 2022
Strategic plan focuses on rehabilitating offenders
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From the river to the ocean
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Pero’s national airline dreams dashed again
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National
A hard day fishing – 9 kg tuna wins competition
It was a hard day of fishing on Saturday with a beautiful flat sea and no one claiming the $1000 heaviest tuna prize - which had to weigh in at least 20kg in the 14th Don Beer Snr Memorial Heaviest Tuna fishing competition.
New ways to grow organically to be discussed at Fiji conference
Executive members of local organics group Natura Kuki Arani (NKA) hope to bring back new lessons about organic growing after attending conferences in Fiji.
Preparations well underway for Bicentennial Celebrations in Atiu, Mitiaro and Mauke
A group from Aitutaki is preparing to attend the 200th Anniversary of the arrival of Christianity on the neighbouring islands of Atiu, Mitiaro, Mauke and Rarotonga.
Melvin appointed CIIC chairman
Businessman Fletcher Melvin has become the new chairman of the Cook Islands Investment Corporation (CIIC).
Rubbish, degradation concern
Tourists to the Cook Islands still travel here for its beautiful environment, but some are concerned about the rubbish and signs of degradation, according to a major survey.
PM welcomes $2b Australian funding package
The Australian Government has announced a major funding package to the Pacific totalling over A$1.9 billion (NZ$2.02b) over the next five years.
Authorities investigate Rarotonga International Airport blaze
A fire broke out at Rarotonga’s International Airport terminal midday yesterday which was swiftly contained by the Airport Authority Crash Fire stationed next door.
Try Alcoholics Anonymous, serial drink driver told
A man facing his sixth charge of excess breath alcohol has been told Alcoholics Anonymous is an option for him after pleading with the court that he wants to turn his troubled life around.
Working together for the animals of the Cook Islands
As you read this I will be in Mauke, thanks to Air Rarotonga and the New Zealand High Commission, both of whom have supported our work in the pa enua.
Widespread floods cause supply and cost issues
Inflation continues to skyrocket as weather events have contributed to ongoing supply chain issues in the Cook Islands.
New televisions for learning
Apii Nikao has received four smart mobile television systems which will allow their students to engage in learning in the different spaces throughout the school.
Man gets 12 months of probation supervision for assaulting a female
Aue Inangaro Tamariki Vakatini has been warned by Justice of the Peace Tangi Taoro that if he is again charged with assaulting a female, he could be facing a jail sentence.
Persistent rain pounds Rarotonga
A nasty weather system affecting New Zealand is indirectly affecting the Cook Islands.
High breath-alcohol reading ‘disturbing’
Authorities are concerned about ongoing high breath-alcohol readings, with Cook Islands Police nabbing a motorist who tested nearly nine times over the legal limit.
Former Cook Islands resident missing in Torres Strait
The search for a popular local identity in the Torres Strait, Denne Bourke, who is a former resident of the Cook Islands, has been scaled down.
Cook Islands Red Cross Society to mark 21st anniversary with ‘open office day’
Wear “red” on Wednesday and visit the Cook Islands Red Cross Society in Tupapa to mark the organisation’s 21st birthday.
Enhancing, integrating climate change knowledge
The Pacific Climate Change Centre (PCCC) is working with eight Pacific countries, including the Cook Islands, to enhance and integrate knowledge brokerage on climate change into aspects of the work they are doing in their communities.
ICI apologises for ‘accidental’ Vaimaanga backroad clearing
Infrastructure Cook Islands secretary Elizabeth Wright-Koteka says lessons have been learned in the wake of the ‘accidental’ clearing of a section of Vaimaanga Ara Metua backroad in Titikaveka.
Motorist ‘very shocked’ following golf ball incident on Rarotonga
A motorist had a frightening experience when her windscreen was smashed by a flying golf ball in the vicinity of the Rarotonga Golf Club in Nikao.
Cabinet to discuss panel’s Minimum Wage Review
Cook Islands Cabinet will discuss the findings of a report recommending changes to the minimum wage today.
World Youth Day on Rarotonga
Catholics in the Pacific region will be hosting their own World Youth Day with each respective diocese leading their own programme from August 2.
Agriculture ministry and NZ to sign ‘Export Plan’
Cook Islands Biosecurity Quarantine Arrangement (BQAs) signed in 1999 between New Zealand’s Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) will be replaced by an Export Plan in a bid to boost agricultural export to NZ.
