Cook Islands

China has given the Cook Islands an aid grant worth $US6.8 million for a yet to be determined project.

Water shipments to Penrhyn have finished after recent rainfall ended a three-month dry spell in the northern Cook Islands.

The Cook Islands government must focus as much on the potential environmental risks of seabed mining as it does on the economic benefits, an environmental organisation says.

New Zealand have made an ominous start to the OFC Women's Nations Cup in New Caledonia, thrashing Tonga 11-0 in their opening match in Noumea.

The Cook Islands and the Marshall Islands could be hampering transparency reform at the International Maritime Organisation, an international NGO said.

The Cook Islands has appointed a New Zealand investigator to look into the death of a tourist in Rarotonga last week.

The Cook Islands government is delighted at New Zealand's loosening of the qualification rules around NZ Superannuation and the Veteran's Pension.

The Cook Islands Court of Appeal has upheld a stay on a by-election in Rakahanga, which is the focus of an electoral petition.

The Cook Islands says it will sign on to China's Belt and Road initiative in the next week.

The Cook Islands are hoping to go one better at the Oceania Sevens, which kicks off in Suva tomorrow.

A bill aimed at improving access to New Zealand Superannuation and Veteran's Pension for those living in the Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau has passed its third reading.

A Cook Islands MP has resigned after an electoral petition was brought against him alleging he treated voters during the June election.