Some 20 tankers registered in the microstate allegedly smuggled Russian and Iranian fuel between 2024 and 2025 amid lax oversight.

Dozens of oil tankers suspected of smuggling contraband crude for Russia and Iran have been using a beachside office in the ...

Analysis reveals tankers smuggling crude for Russia and Iran used the South Pacific nation's beachside office to conceal activity.

Without ever setting foot in the palm-fringed micro-state, foreign ship owners can pay Maritime Cook Islands to sail under ...

An New Zealand academic says there is a lack of understanding on the details of Aotearoa's relationship with the Cook Islands. Earlier this year, New Zealand extended its funding pause to its realm ...

There's no overall guideline for leadership challenges in New Zealand politics, which are left to parties to set the rules.

Prime Minister is moving, often compelling, occasionally profound. But it is a film that ultimately asks the wrong questions. Lindsay Utz and Michelle Walshe’s Prime Minister is the kind of ...

New Zealand will contribute NZ$1 million to support emergency humanitarian relief efforts. This funding will be channeled ...

For many councils, the Luxon government’s plan to restrict the ability of local councils to increase rates to a range of between two and four per cent annually, is a recipe for : (b) increasing user ...

Ty’ryn Anthony Zah’rel Washington, 20, of Kenly, turned himself in to authorities on Monday. He was wanted for manslaughter.