The Latest Breaking News from Tahiti

Investigators raided Paris town hall Tuesday as part of a probe into a taxpayer-funded trip by mayor Anne Hidalgo to the French Pacific island Tahiti, according to reports from French news agency AFP.

The Cronulla-born world No 5 is surfing a wave of controversy after deciding to switch his allegiances from Australia to Japan in a bid for the Paris 2024 Olympics

Next year's Olympic surfing competition will be held on Tahiti's Teahupo'o beach as planned, the leader of French Polynesia said, declaring and end to a row between organisers, authorities and environmental groups who opposed the construction of a new judging tower that could threaten coral.

Organizers of the Paris Olympics say work will resume this week to prepare the surfing venue in Tahiti after an uproar over damage to a coral reef put efforts on hold

The Paris 2024 organizing committee president says he still wants the surfing competition at next year’s Olympics to take place in Tahiti despite the controversy surrounding the construction of the judging tower at the site, where coral has been damaged

The International Surf Association (ISA) has said it welcomes the decision by authorities to suspend work on the venue in Tahiti for the Paris Olympics events.

The surfing venue for next year's Paris Olympics is nearly 16,000 kilometers, or 10,000 miles, away on the other side of the world

Residents and surfers of one of the world's most famous surfing waves, Teahupo’o, in Tahiti, which will host the 2024 Olympic surfing competition, remain opposed to plans to build a judging tower, even after organisers scaled back plans. Opponents say construction will damage coral and put the health of the…

Organizers of next year’s Paris Olympics are scaling back the metal tower they plan to build for judges and television cameras at the picture-perfect surfing venue in Tahiti