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Crews from various emergency response agencies in Tongatapu conducted a live emergency response for a simulated aircraft incident over Nuku'alofa's waterfront, this morning.

Tonga Under-15 Junior men and women's basketball teams made their debut at the 2024 FIBA U15 Oceania Cup, with both teams entering the semi-finals in a winning streak this week. The matches are scheduled for this afternoon, Friday: U15 Junior women semi-finals: Australia v Tonga - 2:00 PM (GMT +11) and U15 Junior men semi-finals: New Zealand v Tonga - 4:30 PM (GMT +11).

A group of scientists working aboard a research vessel in the southwest Pacific Ocean has discovered the world’s largest coral. Measuring 34 meters wide, 32 meters long and 5.5 meters high, with a circumference of 183 meters, the gigantic organism is a complex network of coral polyps — tiny individual creatures — that have grown over a span of three centuries. In contrast to a reef — which is a network of many coral colonies — this structure is a standalone coral that has grown uninterrupted for hundreds of years.  

Prime Minister Hon. Hu’akavameiliku made an urgent appeal for global cooperation and immediate action to address the escalating climate crisis yesterday, at the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Sosaia Vatikani (40) was jailed for serious housebreaking and theft of property, including electrical goods, worth $15,200 pa’anga, from the Nursing School at Vaiola Hospital, in Nuku'alofa - where he left a trail of fingerprints.

A team of Tonga and New Zealand Rugby Union officials delivered a Team and Event Management training in the outer islands of Ha’apai and Vava’u, on the last week of October.

Tonga Police officers seized several packs of methamphetamine, cannabis, cash and drug-related utensils in Tonga over the past week.

Invasive rats were successfully eradicated from the uninhabited islets of Kelefesia and Tonumea in the Ha'apai group, over five weeks of eradication processes by ten “invasive battlers”.

As the Pacific heads into COP 29 in Azerbaijan, today, Pacific Islands Forum Chair, Prime Minister Hon, Hu’akavameiliku says the key goal for the negotiations must be to keep the 1.5 degree Celsius goal alive.