A roundup of major stories from across the region and the people involved and affected by them.

The Fiji government says it will investigate organisers of the Miss Universe Fiji pageant after the contest ended in disarray. 

Politok pulls back the curtain on what goes on in Pacific politics. PNG journalist Scott Waide speaks with the region's leaders, public servants, aid workers, academics, and everyday people to uncover the real stories and unpack the big questions.

Pope Francis is in Papua New Guinea this weekend where he'll be taking Sunday mass with more than 30,000 people in the capital Port Moresby.

China's Pacific ambassador furious after Pacific leaders allow Taiwan to continue attending Forum meetings as an observer.

Seventeen people have been arrested and several kilograms of methamphetamine seized in police raids across the Tongan capital Nuku'alofa. 

The ringleader  of a notorious gang that allegedly killed eleven children in Papua New Guinea has turned himself in to police.

India's President Droupadi Murmu's visit to Fiji this week marks the first-ever visit by a head of state from her country, and its growing interest in the Pacific.

Papua New Guinea police are using a gruesome social media video that shows a gang decapitating a corpse in the hunt for the suspects of a mass killing.

Dozens of people including women and children were killed in a vicious attack on a village in Papua New Guinea's East Sepik region.