Far out in the South Pacific, there’s a tropical island called Bougainville. Its people are devoutly Catholic — with a twist. Many revere the Virgin Mary almost as much as her son, Jesus. Women are ...

Bougainville Copper separately said it intends ... that it offloaded in 2016 and was at the center of a decadelong civil war. Mining at the Panguna copper pit on the South Pacific island of ...

Approval by the government is yet to be granted, but it’s thought independence could be achieved by the end of 2027, ...

The parties involved in talks aimed at resolving an impasse over Bougainville's push for independence are planning to meet several more times before a deadline in June.

Conflict over the Panguna mine - a large copper mine representing one of the largest reserves in the world - became the primary trigger for the Bougainville Civil War which took place between 1988 ...

Local communities are witnessing progress in their mission for justice, 36 years after the Panguna copper mine became the centre of landowner grievances.

Due to the long history of colonial presence and the Bougainville Civil War (1988-1998), a lot the island’s material culture was destroyed during wartime or is housed in museums around the world. The ...

Hannah Ruhoff Sun Herald As the 80th anniversary of the end of Iwo Jima — the infamous World War II battle ... Barton of the Civil Air Patrol alongside the crew of the USS Bougainville, a ...

The Montpelier shot down Japanese planes and sank Japanese ships off Guadalcanal, bombarded the Japanese defenses at Munda, and survived two torpedo hits and an enemy bomb off Bougainville.