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Honolulu, HAWAII — Human health risks, stronger cyclones, coral reef death, and coastal flooding are among the major challenges detailed in a new report on climate change in American Sāmoa. Threatened resources include high-value coastal infrastructure and the millions of dollars that ocean...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man from Samoa who pled guilty to meth possession is ordered to serve 20 months at the TCF as a condition of his 5-year probation.
Lasalo Iakopo appeared in Court last month for sentencing. He has been in custody since his arrest in February 2020, unable to post a $10,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A woman was taken to the LBJ Medical Hospital last Sunday afternoon after a vehicle ran off the road at a curve in Lauli’i.
Other photos of the incident showed EMS crews in the water with the driver strapped to a board as they were bringing him to shore in waist deep...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A teacher from Faasao Marist High School (FMHS) shown in a video allegedly assaulting a student was fired after the video of the incident went viral on Facebook over the weekend and police are now investigating the matter after the family of the student filed a criminal...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The federal court in Honolulu is questioning whether it has jurisdiction over a lawsuit filed by four Alega residents against American Samoa Chief Justice Michael Kruse, local resident James L. McGuire and the U.S. Secretary of Interior and has ordered plaintiffs to file...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council (Council), as well as governors and fishery officials at the US Pacific territories of Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) have all voiced their opposition on the US National Marine...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Chief Justice Michael Kruse issued a bench warrant to arrest a probationer for failure to appear in High Court last Friday for his “Order to Show Cause” hearing.
Tino Tapuaialupe was scheduled to appear in court for his OSC for failure to comply with conditions of his...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The 28-year old man convicted of assaulting another man at the parking lot of the Laufou Shopping Center while intoxicated at the beginning of this year was ordered by the court not to set foot in the Laufou parking lot during the period of his 12-month probation....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A fight at the Fagaima Taxi Stand last week landed a man and his two sons in court after they were arrested and charged with assaulting a man working as a dispatcher for the taxi stand.
The man, Akeli Alosio, employed as the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms at the Fono, made his...