![Unutoa Auelua Fonoti [Photo: supplied via RNZI]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/eight_col_Unutoa_Fonoti.jpg?itok=OKsbCipE "Unutoa Auelua Fonoti [Photo: supplied via RNZI]")
Samoa's telecommunications regulator is meeting with mobile phone service providers from American Samoa this weekend to try to fix signal interference on the eastern side of Samoa's Upolu island.
A Ponsonby, New Zealand player (#22) was surprised when sent airborne after an intense collision with Hawaii Chiefs player #15 during the first game of the Ohana Cup 2017, Kaiser High School Stadiu
![Luki Te'etai Tuitasi and the crew from Public Works are preparing the area in front of the Jean P. Hayden Museum, for the construction of a new 2-story structure that will provide more storage, office and display space for the Jean P. Hayden Museum. See story for details. [photo: Blue Chen-Fruean]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/museum.jpg?itok=Xq8UVAAu "Luki Te'etai Tuitasi and the crew from Public Works are preparing the area in front of the Jean P. Hayden Museum, for the construction of a new 2-story structure that will provide more storage, office and display space for the Jean P. Hayden Museum. See story for details. [photo: Blue Chen-Fruean]")
The Jean P. Hayden Museum will be getting a much-needed facelift.
In the indigenous context we both mourn and celebrate death and dying.
A roundup of some of the most popular, but completely untrue, headlines of the week. None of these stories are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media.
![Associate Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Faasootauloa Pati Taulapapa flanked by Agriculture Minister and Rev. Taumafai Komiti with the check from the National Tropical Botanical Gardens. [Courtesy Photo]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Check.jpg?itok=hYfkMWN6 "Associate Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Faasootauloa Pati Taulapapa flanked by Agriculture Minister and Rev. Taumafai Komiti with the check from the National Tropical Botanical Gardens. [Courtesy Photo]")
The Government of Samoa received a check for sales of Samoan breadfruit cultivar as the result of a landmark benefit-sharing agreement between the National Tropical Botanical Gardens, (NTBG) and th
WASHINGTON — U.S. Department of the Interior’s Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas Doug Domenech has announced open season for the U.S.
![A Taro plant [Photo: RNZI/Autagavaia Tipi Autagavaia]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/eight_col_Talo_crop.JPG?itok=FSwtnvrj "A Taro plant [Photo: RNZI/Autagavaia Tipi Autagavaia]")
Only farmers, and not middlemen, will be able to export taro from Samoa to American Samoa under new requirements.
![Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland. [Photo: RNZI/Sally Round]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/eight_col_Patricia_Scotland.jpg?itok=WBbNQrWe "Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland. [Photo: RNZI/Sally Round]")
Senior electoral officials from Commonwealth countries in the Pacific will attend a workshop in Samoa next week to strengthen electoral democracy in the region.
![Reverend Dr. Upolu Lumā Vaai at an earlier book launch in Apia. [courtesy photo]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/IMG_9020.jpg?itok=CMRTt5B0 "Reverend Dr. Upolu Lumā Vaai at an earlier book launch in Apia. [courtesy photo]")