End-of-year stories are some of my favorites, and enough readers have chimed in over the years to let me know they feel the same.

The National Hurricane Center is tracking a disturbance in the Pacific it says could become a tropical depression by the end of the week. The hurricane center said early Monday morning an area of low ...

The Pacific Ocean may be the most enormous battlefield in the history of warfare. During World War II, the vast Pacific proved the battlefield of two of the world's greatest navies. The aircraft ...

A mysterious and highly active undersea volcano off the Pacific Coast could erupt by the end of this year, scientists say. Nearly a mile deep and about 700 miles northwest of San Francisco, the ...

From King Charles to Samoa, growing civil unrest in New Caledonia, devastating earthquakes, strategic Rugby deals, and major drug busts—the Pacific news cycle in 2024 did not disappoint. Amidst these ...

Bristling with armaments and seemingly strong, the current ad hoc Western coalition may yet prove, like NATO, vulnerable to sudden setbacks from rising partisan pressures. The USS Nimitz and USS ...

Ari Daniel - Host, "There's More to That" In the fall of 1944, Japanese fighters opened fire on a wave of U.S. planes near Palau, including a bomber carrying pilot Jay Ross Manown Jr., gunner Anthony ...

A record-breaking and astonishingly expansive marine heat wave is underway in the Pacific Ocean, stretching about 5,000 miles from the water around Japan to the West Coast of the United States. The ...

This page was updated on August 14, 2025, to adjust the USAID cuts as a share of GNI in select Pacific Island Countries. For the last decade, the United States has maintained that it is a “Pacific ...

Many of the world’s biggest earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis occur along a chain of seismologically active regions that encircle the Pacific Ocean. By Victoria Kim Hundreds of millions of ...

China has quietly extended its military reach far across the Pacific by building dozens of ports, airports, and communications projects at key points in a vast region that could shut out the United ...