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Uncle Jimmy is an enormous fellow with a wispy tangle for a beard and permanently knotted brows. His cycle helmet perches atop his head as if crammed on as an angry afterthought, and he carries a big ...

A dengue fever outbreak in Rarotonga has prompted renewed attention on regional health resilience and the role Aotearoa New ...

Hidden in plain sight awaits a tropical paradise only a stone's throw away from Australia - and yet few know it exists. Rarotonga - the largest of the Cook Islands - has breathtaking beaches, ...

Rarotonga, the hub of the Cook Islands, sits about half way between New Zealand and Hawaii. The island promises no traffic lights and no building taller than the highest coconut tree. In December, ...

A Rarotonga bank is working to reverse a series of duplicate transaction errors affecting foreign Visa cardholders from ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Last month the first direct Jetstar flight from Australia to the Cook Islands touched down at Rarotonga International Airport. The first ...

RAROTONGA, COOK ISLANDS — As the plane starts its descent to Rarotonga, the main island of the Cook archipelago, the range of blues around the scattered atolls shimmers before me. I grew up on the ...

New Zealanders returning from tropical getaways in the Cook Islands are arriving home carrying the dengue virus, prompting ...

The Cook Islands has reported the first dengue fever-related death of the current outbreak. The health ministry said an elderly patient with underlying conditions died in hospital on 2 February.

Tourism accounts for almost 70 percent of the Cook Islands’ economy, but the industry is proving extremely damaging to its delicately balanced island ecosystem, and is contributing to islanders’ ...