New Caledonia is home to 269,000 people, 39% are indigenous Melanesians, known locally as Kanaks, while 27% are Caldoches, descendants of French settlers A local assembly based in the capital ...

Much closer to Australia than Europe, New Caledonia is 10,500 miles from the French mainland but remains both part of France and a strategic outpost in an increasingly contested region.

A round-up of news in brief from the French Pacific, including a jail sentence for a drug trafficker.

A congress held by New Caledonia's pro-independence front ended on Sunday with declarations to lead the French Pacific ...

Hailing from the Le Rassemblement party – which is affiliated to the French conservative party, Les Republicains – his political family is in favour of keeping New Caledonia within France. “ ...

French Prime minister François Bayrou has told the French Parliament he wants political talks for New Caledonia to resume this month. In his maiden speech of general policy announcing his ...

Following the collapse of New Caledonia’s government on Christmas Eve, the French Pacific colony’s cabinet has installed an anti-independence loyalist as its new president. Alcide Ponga ...

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot once again voiced unsubstantiated allegations against Azerbaijan, accusing the ...

Alcide Ponga (centre) was voted in as New Caledonia's new president on 8 January. The French Pacific territory of New Caledonia has named French loyalist Alcide Ponga as its new head of government ...

The French Pacific territory of New Caledonia has named French loyalist Alcide Ponga as its new head of government, as the archipelago attempts to recover from months of violent unrest that has left ...

Airbus Helicopters has handed over the first two of eight new H225M Caracal rotorcraft under an April 2021 order for the French air force.