With just three weeks until Tongans head to the polls, debates over the palace's political role, overseas voting rights, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sizzling Tonga taekwondo fighter Pita Taufatofua strutted his stuff in the Opening Ceremony of the 23rd Winter Olympics Everyone’s favorite hunky Tongan is back — and despite the frigid temperatures, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A British woman who went missing after a massive underwater volcanic eruption resulted in tsunami waves hitting the Pacific nation of Tonga has been found dead, her family says, the island's first ...