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Hawaii wind turbines
Honolulu, HAWAII — The effects of climate change — along with seismic activity that is prompting the islands making up American Samoa to sink — are part of a one-two punch raising questions about the sustainability of human life on narrow islands in the South Pacific made up largely of flat...
Faleatafa Ben Sili
Washington, D.C. — American Samoa is receiving notification of $3.8 million in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a federal agency within HHS. The same amount was just announced on February 28, covering a...
Congresswoman Amata with Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) President Wesley Simina
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata met with Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) President Wesley Simina on Wednesday as a follow up to the recent passage of the Compact of Free Association Agreements with the FSM, Palau, and the Marshall Islands (RMI) to discuss implementation,...
Gov. Lemanu P.S. Mauga
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The power to arrest suspected violators of the law which had rested solely with police officers, has now been given to security officers of the Department of Port Authority. This follows the governor’s signing of a Senate bill which will “allow the Director of the...
DYWA PAGO PAGO
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On February 25, 2023, the Fagatogo Police Station (FPS) received a call to report an unknown male who allegedly broke into the Department of Youth and Women’s Affair (DYWA) in Pago Pago. Joseph Aetonu was apprehended and charged with Count 1: Trespass — a class B...
TCF GATE
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On March 3, 2024, a traffic stop resulted in the arrest of Kid Bartley who allegedly refused the Standardized Field Sobriety Test. The defendant was arrested and charged with Count 1: Resisting Arrest — a class A misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for up to one year...
Images of Fatumafuti in the 2022 Netflix presentation
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Extreme low tides and coral bleaching exacerbated by global climate change, are causing widespread loss of coral, according to the Dept. of Marine & Wildlife Resources (DMWR), which is calling for collaboration between communities, governments, and conservation...
American Samoa District Court
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On February 24, 2024, a woman walked in at the Tafuna Police Substation (TPS) regarding a male individual who broke into her home and was sleeping on the floor. The suspect was apprehended and charged with Count 1: Trespass — a class B misdemeanor punishable by...
Hazel Leo with her proud father
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Local high school budding poets faced-off last Friday in the 4th Annual Territorial Competition of Poetry Out Loud — American Samoa 2024, held at the Jean P. Haydon Museum, where last year's winner Hazel Leo of Iakina Adventist Academy, emerged victorious once again....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The overall winners of the 2024 American Samoa Science Fair High School division includes Amelia Chen, a 2-peat consecutive overall winner of the High School division. She will once again be representing American Samoa at the International Science and Engineering Fair in...

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