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The Cook Islands, a grouping of 15 islands and atolls in the South Pacific, has been a self-governing nation in free association with New Zealand for nearly 60 years. The democratically elected ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand ... and turbulent Cook Strait between the North and South Islands is a recurring feature of the country’s roughest weather. Breakdowns of New Zealand’s aging ferries ...

The Cook Islands is in free association with New Zealand, which means its people ... according to the Lowy Insitute’s Pacific Aid Map. “There is a sense of concern that the US was not able ...

Later the same year, Spanish explorer Luís Vaz de Torres sailed through, and navigated the Torres Strait islands ... the north-west of the South Island of New Zealand. Tasman then returned to Batavia ...

The ongoing search for a man reported missing on a jetski in the Cook Strait area has not located ... Minister Louise Upston this week added two new punitive measures to her already draconian ...

Photo / Reece Baker, RNZ Favourable weather conditions in Cook Strait yesterday allowed several agencies to continue their search over a wide area. “At this time there has been no sign of the ...

Coastguard volunteers looking for a man who disappeared while trying to cross Cook Strait on a jetski searched rocks and caves on the Marlborough Sounds shoreline yesterday, but were “saddened ...

New Zealand expressed renewed concern on Monday about the Cook Islands' prime minister travelling to China this week to sign ...

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) ...

New Zealand's Foreign Minister voiced "significant concern" on Sunday as close Pacific partner the Cook Islands prepared to sign a cooperation deal with China. Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark ...