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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — More of the plans have been revealed for King Charles and Queen Camilla's Samoa trip next month.
The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Samoa is the first the King will attend as Head of the Commonwealth. Samoa's Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mata'afa, in a...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Vanuatu, Fiji and Samoa have formally presented a proposal to the world's highest court this week, asking for an amendment to its principle treaty to include a crime of ecocide.
Vanuatu's special envoy for climate change Ralp Regenvanu said they were the first nation to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Samoa crowned its representative for the 2025 Miss Pacific Islands beauty pageant over the weekend, while Fiji's capital Suva crowned its representative for the Miss Fiji Pageant in December.
Litara Ieremaia-Allan, 24, was crowned Miss Samoa, in Apia, on Saturday....
NGĀRUAWĀHIA, New Zealand (AP) — They came in their thousands in the freezing dawn, parking cars far away and winding down rural roads on foot, children riding on their shoulders. They arrived in mourning black with crowns of ferns and kawakawa leaves, bone carvings or wedges of deep green pounamu...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Sitting in a bare room inside Tonga's only prison, wearing a traditional Tongan short-sleeve shirt, the former drug trafficker is not the image of deep-rooted criminality you'd expect.
For one, he's at retirement age and the soft-spoken 67-year-old grandfather was still...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — King Tuheitia's youngest child and only daughter has been named as the eighth Māori monarch in a ceremony at Tuurangawaewae marae.
Tekau-maa-rua, the Kiingitanga advisory council, chose 27-year-old Kuini Nga wai hono i te po to succeed her father.
Thousands of mourners...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In an exciting development for the Samoan literary community, the country is set to launch its first 10-book bilingual series for children at the end of September.
This ground-breaking initiative is called Tatou Faitau or Let’s Read, and it was initiated by Asia...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Award-winning Hawaii Recording Artist Teresa Bright passed away Sunday at the age of 64.
Bright, who was of Samoan descent, grew up on the Windward side of Oahu on Kaneohe Bay and attended the University of Hawaii.
She won her first Na Hoku Hanohano award with Steve Mai’...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Samoa is grappling with the implications of a recent mongoose sighting, with no updates yet on how this invasive species entered the country.
Senior officials from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) DEC division confirmed that efforts are still...
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...