Pita Taufatofua, the hunky Tongan flag-bearer from the Rio Olympics, is back and competing in the Winter Olympics Johnny Dodd is a senior writer at PEOPLE, who focuses on human interest, crime and ...

With just three weeks to go before Tongans head to the polls, the debate over election issues is heating up. Under the ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (KGO) -- For many in the Tongan community, it has been an emotional rollercoaster. After an underwater volcano erupted in the South Pacific, the nearby island country of Tonga was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some might say that as official court jester to the island kingdom of Tonga, Jesse Bogdonoff isn’t very funny. Instead of cracking them up in the South Pacific nation, the Sonoma County resident has ...

PYEONGCHANG-GUN, SOUTH KOREA - FEBRUARY 09: Flag bearer Pita Taufatofua of Tonga leads out his country during the Opening Ceremony of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at PyeongChang Olympic ...

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 ...

Blanketed by ash after a huge underwater volcano erupted, Tonga remains cut off from the world. Planes are unable to land on the South Pacific nation’s main runway and the internet is disconnected ...

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 ...

The Tongan community in Juneau, Alaska, still can't reach people more than a week after the underwater volcanic eruption. Telephone links are slowly being reconnected, and the internet is still down.