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

A scruffy New Orleans rescue dog famed for evading a monthslong effort to recapture him using nets and tranquilizer rifles has finally been caught and returned to domestic life this week.

Trying to pick a Mount Rushmore of Quad-Cities professional athletes isn't an easy task. Sport writer Tom Johnston gave it a ...

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

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 ...

China says a visit this week by the Cook Islands' prime minister to Beijing was not meant to conspire against anyone in the ...

The Cook Islands, part of New Zealand’s realm since 1965, have a unique self-governing status with New Zealand citizenship ...

Nathan Longhurst has done 78 peaks so far. He hopes his frantic pace will allow him to notch all 100 before the end of summer ...

Mount Taranaki, now officially known as Taranaki Maunga, has been granted the same legal rights as a human by the New Zealand government. This historic decision aligns with a global movement ...

Yet colonizers of New Zealand in the 18th and 19th centuries took first the name of Taranaki and then the mountain itself. In 1770, the British explorer, Captain James Cook, spotted the peak from his ...

31 (UPI) --The New Zealand government granted Mount Taranaki the same legal rights ... the name British explorer James Cook gave it in the 18th century. New Zealand gave personhood to the natural ...