Western Australia's ports of Dampier and Varanus Island will be closed at 6 p.m. (1000 GMT) on Thursday due to Tropical Cyclone Zelia, the ports' operator said, with emergency services in the state ...

The runner-up for Australia’s best beach in 2025 goes to Woolgoolga, a hidden gem on NSW’s Coffs Coast, while third place was ...

Many of the islands’ residents are descendants of Malay workers brought there to work in coconut plantations in the 1830s.

A rare dispute between New Zealand and Kiribati has renewed focus on the Pacific island nation, highlighting the existential ...

The Australian government has proposed moving hundreds of residents from their island home within decades as sea levels rise, sparking outrage among inhabitants. Like many island nations, Cocos ...

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A female swimmer has died in a shark attack in the waters off a popular tourist spot on Australia’s east coast, authorities ...

Paramedics rushed to treat the teenager who was swimming off a beach in Queensland, but say she succumbed to serious injuries to her upper body.

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 lie halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii and are made up of 15 islands and atolls spread over 700 square miles (1.9 million square kilometres) ...