![Kings and Pacific Music Awards trustee, Petrina Togi-Saena [Photo: Supplied / Vodafone Pacific Music Awards]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/eight_col_Kings_and_Petrina_Togi-Saena.jpg?itok=ylZG1bSa "Kings and Pacific Music Awards trustee, Petrina Togi-Saena [Photo: Supplied / Vodafone Pacific Music Awards]")
The Minister for Pacific Peoples, Aupito William Sio, has congratulated the thirteen Pacific people recognised in the New Zealand New Years Honours list.
A yacht seized in French Polynesia in January has inadvertently been auctioned off with cocaine onboard.
![This handout picture taken on November 17, 2017 and released by the US Navy on November 22, 2017 shows a C-2A Greyhound. [Photo: AFP / US Navy]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/eight_col_Navy.jpg?itok=X-mqnZnz "This handout picture taken on November 17, 2017 and released by the US Navy on November 22, 2017 shows a C-2A Greyhound. [Photo: AFP / US Navy]")
The most senior commander of the United States' navy has announced plans to increase their military presence in the western Pacific in response to increased threats in the region.
Young women of the Vaitogi CCCAS choir in their color holiday uniforms performed at the Gov. H.
O se va'aiga i se tasi o aiga na agava'a mo le foa'i a lana afioga Lenamuaiao Senatoa Galea'i LK Tuufuli i le aso Kerisimasi 2017. [ata: Leua Aiono Frost]
O le ono ai lenei o tausaga o saunia pea e le afioga Lenamuaiao, Senatoa Galea'i L. Tuufuli ma le Fanau ma Aiga foa'i mo aiga tuaoi mai lona maota i Fagatogo lava.
After two full days of waiting in frustration, passengers from Monday night’s flight finally left for Honolulu on Wednesday night’s flight — one of the three extra fligh
They made music that inspired legions of fans.
![A concept for the floating island project in French Polynesia. The creators of a man-made floating island off Tahiti say they want a quarter of its population to be made up of Polynesian people. [Photo: Supplied]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Pac%20Briefs%20floating%20island.jpg?itok=or9WZAvF "A concept for the floating island project in French Polynesia. The creators of a man-made floating island off Tahiti say they want a quarter of its population to be made up of Polynesian people. [Photo: Supplied]")
![BRING ON 2018: Azarel Mariner Maiai. {Samoa Observer]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/new%20year%20photo.jpg?itok=NjeD4rys "BRING ON 2018: Azarel Mariner Maiai. {Samoa Observer]")