There is a local legend in Tonga that refers to a devastating “peau kula,” or a red wave, that once overtook the entire island. Tonga natives would have been content leaving the peau kula to myth — an ...

ALLEN PARK -- The road to the NFL is long and difficult. For Lions rookie Gio Manu, a native of the island nation of Tonga who left his family at 11 years old, didn’t start playing football until high ...

So far, the only deaths reported occurred 6,000 miles away, in Peru. But outside emergency workers have yet to make their way to the Pacific island nation. By Natasha FrostMitra Taj and Eric Nagourney ...