The Latest Breaking News from PNG

The NRL has given the greatest indication yet a Pasifika side based largely out of Papua New Guinea could be a legitimate expansion chance for 2025.

Fego Kiniafa was a top PNG businessman who workers called "The Chief". Last year he was brutally murdered and now an investigation has uncovered secret business deals that raise serious questions about who Australia chooses to partner with under its foreign assistance programs.

An archaeologist has returned to Australia after being released by armed criminals who were holding him and three others hostage in a remote part of Papua New Guinea.

Archaeologist Professor Bryce Barker has returned to Australia after being released by criminals who took him and three others hostage in Papua New Guinea.

Police in Papua New Guinea say there is "unfinished business" in their pursuit of the criminal gang who took an Australian archaeologist and three local women hostage in the country's highlands.

Gang who captured Prof Bryce Barker and his research team wanted compensation after two members shot at logging site

An Australian-based professor and other hostages taken captive in the southern highlands of Papua New Guinea have been freed.

An Australian archaeology professor and his two Papua New Guinean colleagues are released from captivity after more than a week of tense and traumatic negotiations, and a complex security operation involving police and defence personnel.

PNG Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko says a cross-agency negotiating team is hopeful of securing the release of three hostages taken captive in his country.