Giving women and children the comfort of cabins while men stayed on deck may have doomed them to be trapped inside an overnight ferry that capsized in heavy seas off Tonga, officials said Thursday.

The captain of a Tongan ferry has been arrested, months after his vessel sank causing the loss of 74 lives. Viliami Tuputupu was charged with knowingly sailing an unseaworthy vessel, radio ...

The ferry was on its way from Nuku'alofa to outlying islands in Tonga's north. It sank in 35 metres of water in a location that made rescue efforts difficult, Tongan police Commander Chris Kelly said.

Eighty-five passengers were missing and feared dead Saturday after their ferry flipped and sank off Tonga, with only two bodies recovered more than two days after the disaster. Police Chief ...

(CNN)-- Searchers rescued at least 53 people and about 33 are missing after a ferry capsized in the Pacific Ocean overnight near Tonga's capital, Nuku'alofa, a search and rescue officer said early ...

The number of people missing and presumed drowned in the Tongan ferry disaster has fallen to 72, police say. The number of missing was cut by one, a day after Tongan police reduced the number by ...

MARK COLVIN: Tensions are rising in Tonga as relatives of the victims of this week's ferry disaster demand answers. Sixty-four people are now feared dead after a ferry overturned off the coast of ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand » A shipping company chief was sentenced to five years in prison and his corporation fined more than $1 million on Monday for negligence in a ferry disaster in Tonga that ...

THE wreck of the sunken Tongan ferry Princess Ashika has been found a week after it went down, but wild weather and deep seas have stopped divers from reaching it. Australian and New Zealand Navy ...

Police say the number of people missing and feared dead after a ferry capsized and sank off Tonga has risen to 93 — eight more than previously thought. Police Chief Inspector Sokopeti To'ia told ...