Tongan islands have been making headlines this week after a volcanic eruption cut them off from the rest of the world. The eruption is thought to be one of the strongest felt on Earth in the last ...

Two people drowned off a beach in northern Peru, the local civil defense authority reported on Sunday (Sunday 16). After unusually high waves were recorded in several coastal areas following ...

Pita Taufatofua — best known for his shirtless appearances as Tonga's flag bearer — will not be at the Paris Olympics Chris Hyde/Getty The Summer Olympics opening ceremony will be a little less ...

Dressed in all black for mourning sat a man anxiously awaiting the voice of his brothers. Reverend Sione Tu'uta of First United Methodist Bossier, a native of the Kingdom of Tonga has spent the last ...

The Tongan community in Juneau, Alaska, still can't reach people more than a week after the underwater volcanic eruption. Telephone links are... The volcanic eruption makes it difficult to reach ...

As the international relief effort carries on for a still-reeling Tonga, 176 Asian American and Pacific Islander groups are urging President Joe Biden to do more. After a volcanic eruption and tsunami ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The island nation of Tonga continues to pick up the pieces after sustaining damage from a volcanic eruption and tsunami last weekend. WATCH: Utahns still waiting to hear from loved ...

Some little kids grow up dreaming of being pilots. Silva McLeod wasn’t one of them. During her childhood on the Tongan island of Vava’u, she didn’t even know that being a pilot was a possible career.

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