Marshall Islands

Laboratory tests for a suspected Covid-19 coronavirus case in the Marshall Islands have returned negative.

The Marshall Islands has announced its first suspected case of Covid-19 coronavirus.

The fight for nuclear justice continues in the Marshall Islands where people have been gathering to call for the US to atone for its legacy of testing.

The Marshall Islands is fast-tracking quarantine facilities and safety supplies to prepare for what authorities believe is an inevitable arrival of the Covid-19 coronavirus.

A South Korean-flagged longline fishing vessel was charged on Friday with five counts of fishing in Marshall Islands waters without a valid license.

Washington State Police are close to completing a criminal investigation into the shooting of a Marshallese man by an officer.

The Marshall Islands has issued an indefinite ban on all international travel by government employees and elected leaders to reduce risk of importing the coronavirus.

Two Marshall Islanders died from dengue fever this week at Majuro hospital emphasising the severity of the outbreak now in its eighth month.

With Majuro hospital wards overflowing with dengue fever patients, a US volunteer medical team has arrived to bolster the hospital's treatment programme.

The Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands have strengthened travel bans in reaction to the coronavirus, writes Giff Johnson.

The Marshall Islands government is seeking answers from US police after a Marshallese man was shot and killed by an officer in Washington state. Audio

The Marshall Islands issued a travel advisory Friday night banning travelers coming directly from the People's Republic of China, where the coronavirus originated.

The hospital in Majuro is overflowing, its doctors exhausted, its wards strained, budgets withered, and no end in sight. Every day, dozens more patients are wheeled in to wait in corridors.

Five months after a dengue fever outbreak started in Majuro, the outbreak is getting worse.

The formal inauguration for the new government of thte Marshall Islands is set for Monday in Majuro, with heads of state arriving over the weekend to attend the ceremony.

A son of the founding president of the Marshall Islands has been elected as the new head of state.

Voter turnout in the November 2019 national election in the Marshall Islands was the lowest in five elections.

A Papua New Guinea national is being held in jail in the Marshall Islands to face a murder charge after allegedly beating a Kiribati fisherman on board a fishing vessel in Majuro's lagoon last week.

The US Congress has demanded an investigation into a concrete dome full of nuclear waste, threatened by rising sea levels in the Marshall Islands.

Despite millions of pounds of tuna transshipped through Pacific island ports, nobody has a precise count of the tonnage.