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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pita Taufatofua first went viral for representing Tonga as a flag bearer while shirtless and oiled-up during the 2016 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony Don't expect to see Tongan Olympian Pita Taufatofua ...

The isolation of island states paradoxically makes them at once vulnerable but also resilient. With smaller populations and dependence on access through shipping or air routes, island states, ...

Nearly as many Tongans are estimated to live in the U.S. as there are in Tonga itself, with ties running deep and wide across the Pacific. Tongans who've settled overseas send remittances to bolster ...

When Celina Tupou-Fulivai’s family in the South Pacific nation of Tonga started sending her photos and videos of irregular water patterns in the ocean and live footage of the skies turning dark with ...

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 ...

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.

Three-time Olympian Pita Taufatofua’s home country of Tonga was affected by an underwater volcano. Communication with Tonga is limited, and Taufatofua hasn’t heard from his father. Taufatofua said his ...