Tahiti

The public prosecutor in French Polynesia said sailors who had 500 kilogrammes of cocaine hidden in their catamaran claim they didn't know.

Samoa and Guam are in a two-horse race to host the 2019 Pacific Games after a lack of government support ruled Tahiti out of contention.

A township in French Polynesia is alarmed at the cost of cleaning up a former French military site which was returned last year.

Tahiti kept alive their Rugby World Cup qualifying hopes after beating the Cook Islands 13-9 in Rarotonga to win the Oceania Cup.

Tahiti have included eight French-based players in their squad to take on the Cook Islands in rugby's Oceania Cup next weekend.

The Cook Islands insist they will not take Tahiti lightly after naming their squad for next weekend's Oceania Cup rugby playoff in Rarotonga.

The French Polynesian government has given conditional approval to a bid to resume phosphate mining on Makatea atoll.

There has been further reaction in French Polynesia to the stalling of the compensation process for victims of France's nuclear weapons tests.

The host of the 2011 Pacific Games says whoever puts their hand up to replace Tonga in 2019 must have sufficient funding and strong government support.

Tahiti lead the medals table after two full days of competition at the inaugural Va'a World Distance Championships in French Polynesia.

French Polynesia's president Edouard Fritch says Tahiti is ready to host a broad conference on the territory's challenges as outlined in the campaign of the new French president.

An unsuccessful French Polynesian anti-independence candidate has called on his backers to vote for the rival pro-independence candidate in the French National Assembly election.