The National Updates

By MICHELLE AUAMOROMORO and DALE LUMA FLOODING in Mapaio village in Baimuru, Gulf, has subsided after a month, leaving the locals with destroyed gardens and no clean water for drinking and cooking. ...

By ZACHERY PER TEN people, including an infant, were buried alive at the foot of Mt Wilhelm on Good Friday by a landslide in Gembogl, Chimbu. The incident occurred at about 9pm at Kegesuglo village...

MORE 200 households in Gabnaron and Zifasing villages as well as essential services such as health, education and law and order in Huon Gulf, Morobe, have been affected by the flooding Rumu River...

By REBECCA KUKU WITH communities still grappling with the hardships of the two-month state of emergency (SOE) due to Covid-19, more than 60,000 Gulf people have lost their homes and gardens to...

By LARRY ANDREW MORE than 1,000 people living in the vicinity of the Lae Tidal Basin project site have been affected by flooding after heavy rain over the last two days. The flood water levels...

MORE than 700 people have been displaced after floods destroyed their homes and gardens as a result of continuous heavy rain recently at Miunde village, Kerowagi, Chimbu, according to a community...

By ELIAS LARI SIX people have been confirmed dead in the flood that caught villagers by surprise on Monday afternoon in the Mul local level government of Western Highlands. Four bodies have been...

By ELIAS LARI THREE bodies have been recovered while the search continues for others who went missing after floodwaters swept through a village in Western Highlands on Monday afternoon. Villagers of...

MUD and debris caused by a landslide on Sunday night buried food gardens and covered parts of a nearby village, an official says. Hundreds of people living at Buso village in the Morobe local level...

By REBECCA KUKU FOUR emergency response teams will be sent to the Turama area in Kikori, Gulf in response to four suspected measles cases in the area, says Governor Chris Haiveta. Haiveta called on...

STARVATION is looming in Hagen Central where about 3,000 villagers were hit by a 45-minute hailstorm on Christmas afternoon. The hailstorm destroyed all their gardens, farms and livestock turning...

By JAMES GUMUNO THE 45-minute hailstorm that ravaged Western Highlands’ Hagen Central on Christmas afternoon has caused destruction more extensive than earlier reported. The destructive weather...

By JAMES GUMUNO INITIALLY it looked like it was snowing on Christmas Day afternoon in Western Highlands’ central Hagen. However, it turned out to be a destructive weather phenomenon – a hailstorm...

By PRIME MINISTER JAMES MARAPE Today (on Friday) I sat at Arawa with Bougainville people and President Momis as their PM. When the 2001 Bougainville Peace Agreement was signed, I was a number in the...

By PISAI GUMAR THREE women, five girls and an eight-month-old baby were buried alive in a landslide on Tuesday. Two girls who survived told of how the incident at Seleap village in Hote, Salamaua,...

MORE than 400,000 children are expected to benefit from a K60 million immunisation programme implemented by the Government. The Accelerated Immunisation and Health Systems Strengthening programme is...

By MALUM NALU and MARJORIE FINKEO PORT Moresby’s 14-Mile area was flooded after heavy rain and the opening of the reservoir floodgates on Mt Eriama early yesterday morning. No casualties were...

By CLIFFORD FAIPARIK ULAMONA councillor Blaise Luveni says tarpaulins distributed to displaced families after the first volcanic eruption of Mt Ulawun in West New Britain two months ago have broken...

By CLIFFORD FAIPARIK and JEFFREY ELAPA THE Government has allocated K5million to the victims of Mt Ulawun volcano in West New Britain as immediate relief to help feed them. “Hela Governor Philip...

By DOROTHY MARK THE Manam Volcano in Madang erupted on Friday morning, sending some 3,600 villagers scurrying for cover and safety. It was the second volcano to erupt in Papua New Guinea in 48 hours...