Cook Islands

The Cook Islands will stage its first Pride Day this weekend, as the country's LGBT community fights to have homosexuality removed from the Crimes Act. Audio

The Parliament Clerk in the Cook Islands has been sacked after the cost of building a new debating chamber blew out by over $US222,000.

A Cook Islands MP says her constituency of Rakahanga has made a "courageous decision" in asking Hawaiian freight vessel Kwai not to call into port there because of fears over the coronavirus.

A United Nations human rights committee has grilled the Cook Islands government over its classification of people in same-sex relationships as criminals.

The Cook Islands government should not spend any more money on Rarotonga's costly water system, says the Opposition.

The Cook Islands government won't compromise the well-being of its people for economic gains, says prime minister Henry Puna.

A large cruise ship carrying passengers from Italy has been banned from the Cook Islands' atoll of Aitutaki amid fears about the coronavirus.

Cook Islands football champions Tupapa Maraerenga have withdrawn from the OFC Champions League competition after three players were unable to confirm they had been immunised for measles.

A luxury liner carrying passengers and crew from Italy - the European nation worst hit by coronavirus - is scheduled to arrive in the Cook Islands tomorrow.

The Cook Islands' Opposition is calling for extra vigilance at the border, after a package filled with drugs was seized at a local university campus.