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WASHINGTON—With funding support from the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs, 4 American Samoans and 24 other U.S. affilated Pacific Island residents were welcomed by the Executive Leadership Development Program held in Guam last month.
The ELDP participants were...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Power Authority’s fiscal year 2019 budget hearing last week revealed that the ASG Treasury Department pays for costs of installing street lights on the main road.
The revelation surfaced when Rep. Fialupe Felila Fiaui Lutu told ASPA witnesses that she...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The 28-year-old man who was convicted of breaking into a house has been sentenced by Acting Associate Justice, Elvis P Patea to 12 months in jail as a condition of a 5-year probation term.
Ron Albert Mauga, who has been in custody since he was arrested last year, was...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Fono approved on Wednesday a House Concurrent Resolution conveying the deepest condolences of the Legislature and the people of American Samoa to widow Dr. Rosevonne L. Makaiwi Pato and the entire Pato family on the passing of American Samoa Environmental Protection...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Legislature took one-day off yesterday as Fono leaders and several lawmakers joined the Executive and Judicial branches in welcoming to the territory the US Secretary of Interior, Ryan Zinke, who made a stopover in the territory before returning to Washington D.C....
Pago Papgo, AMERICAN SAMOA — U.S Secretary of Interior, Ryan Zinke promised to “deal with your hospital” — referring to LBJ Medical Center — during his special remarks yesterday at the Suigaula o le Atuvasa Park, where it was also revealed that local leaders had bestowed on him, the chiefly title “...
Utulei, AMERICAN SAMOA — (Friday, Sept. 7, 2018) Today the American Samoa Environmental Protection Agency (AS-EPA) bids farewell to late Director Ameko Pato. Pato served as the agency’s leader from January 2013 until his sudden passing on August 12, 2018. He was 60 years old.
Director Pato led AS-...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The former DPS police lieutenant convicted of sexually harassing a fellow female officer while in uniform earlier this year in April is going to jail.
Siaosi Aiono, who told Samoa News via a telephone interview in April this year that he did not sexually harass a female...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — US Secretary of Interior, Ryan Zinke, arrived in American Samoa just around 7am today (Thursday, Sept. 06, 2018) onboard a US government plane accompanied by his delegation.
Zinke stepped off the plane, dressed in a white shirt and traditional Samoan wrap around for men...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An inmate who escaped from confinement last Friday caused the usual weekend visitations at the TCF to be put on hold for the weekend. The last minute changes stirred up anger from several family members and as a result, Samoa News was contacted.
A family member of an...