No details have been released, but analysts and environmentalists fear it will pave the way for closer security ties and the ...

The Cook Islands needs trade and investment. Its economy depends on tourism, and, having graduated to “high-income” status in ...

China acknowledged a visit by the Cook Islands leader for the first time on Thursday, amid exasperation in New Zealand that ...

Cook Islands' Prime Minister Mark Brown said on Thursday he had held discussions with institutions on marine science, climate ...

China is insisting that a visit this week by the prime minister of the Cook Islands to Beijing is not meant to conspire ...

The Cook Islands’ pact with China has been furiously denounced by New Zealand as breaching the neo-colonial constitutional ...

The NT government has given billions of litres of water from the Roper River to irrigators. When will Australia start ...

An ultrarunner from Worthing known as the “Hardest Geezer” is preparing for a new challenge to run 3,000km in New Zealand.

New Zealand expressed renewed concern on Monday about the Cook Islands' prime minister travelling to China this week to sign agreements without properly consulting with Wellington despite the two ...

With tensions mounting, we break down what the proposed deal between China and the Cook Islands is all about, why New Zealand is upset and what this means for the region. What is ...

David Edgar is the 11th person to do it, after he swam the Foveaux Strait at the weekend.