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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In the Marshall Islands, between 1946 and 1958 the United States detonated 67 nuclear tests and the brutal impacts are still being felt today.
The radiation spread to the US Pacific territory of Guam and while Washington settled a compensation deal with the Marshallese,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is continuing its long-term planning exploring opportunities for offshore wind energy including expanding it to U.S. territories. After opening the U.S. West Coast and Gulf Coast for the first lease auctions, BOEM’s long-term plan...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Crime Stoppers and the Honolulu Police Department (HPD) are asking for the public’s help locating a man who went missing a couple of weeks ago.
Aliivaa “Jeff” Letuli, 67, was last seen on Friday, August 9, 2024, at approximately 1 p.m. He was walking along Farrington Hwy...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Homeboy surfer Kauli Vaast, 22, who is the first French and Polynesian to win a gold medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics, was welcomed at the weekend as a hero.
Hundreds of supporters had massed on Friday evening (Thursday Tahiti time) to give him a fully-fledged welcome,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has met with the Governor of the Yunnan Province, Wang Yubo, while on his trip to China.
The Fiji government said Rabuka and Wang Yubo explored opportunities for cooperation in areas of mutual interest.
Rabuka said Fiji could learn a...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Olympic Games closed on Sunday in Paris, with the Pacific only managing one silver thanks to the Fijian men's sevens rugby team, who lost to France in the final.
Fiji shared 74th position on the medal tally with Cyprus, Jordan, Mongolia and Panama, who all had a...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — After a severe and prolonged drought, communities across the state of Yap and its outer islands in the Federated States of Micronesia are future-proofing water supplies — and their way of life — amid a changing climate.
A state of emergency was declared earlier this year...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Police said Tuesday human remains were found inside a large crocodile suspected of killing a tourist in Australia’s second fatal attack in about a month.
The latest victim was 40-year-old doctor Dave Hogbin who fell from a steep bank Saturday into the Annan River south...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The national rugby team of Samoa has pulled out of its Northern Hemisphere tour due to "significant financial challenges" and to "avoid embarrassment of being the first small union to go bankrupt".
In a letter, dated July 11, 2024, seen by RNZ Pacific, Lakapi Samoa board...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Boxer Tupuola Ato Plodzicki-Faoagali is now contemplating whether to become a full-time professional boxer or continue to fight as an amateur to pursue an Olympic medal.
"What's next? I will go back home and rest for two weeks and then get back to work. Perhaps think...