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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Overnight and early Wednesday morning, Hawaiian Electric restored power to more than 1,500 customers across Maui County, Hawaiʻi Island, and Oʻahu who were impacted by the powerful Kona low storm.
Power restoration is taking longer in areas hit by heavy downpours that...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A new sailing program is helping Pacific and Māori reconnect with traditional voyaging knowledge while building confidence on the water.
The Tagaloa Sailing Project is run by Moana Wayfinders Trust and trains participants to become sailing instructors using a mix of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — New Zealand police will work more with counterparts in Samoa and Tonga to try and stop the flow of cocaine and methamphetamine through the region.
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon raised the problem during his visit this week to Samoa where both countries have signed a...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon attempted to call off the bestowal of the chiefly title Tuisinavemaulumotootua in Apia after late-night concerns and social media backlash, Samoa’s Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt revealed on Monday.
According...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — New Zealand and Samoa have vowed to do more to combat the flow of drugs through the Pacific, which prime minister Christopher Luxon says has become a "super highway".
Luxon and his Samoa counterpart La'aulialemalietoa Polataivao Leuatea Fosi Schmidt have signed...
HONOLULU — (March 13, 2026) From monument fishing regulations to false killer whale science and Hawai‘i fishery catch limits, the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council’s Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) will take up several key issues at its March 17 to 19, 2026, meeting in...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — If you want stronger lifts and more efficient movement, don’t overlook the one activity you already perform most.
When people think about building strength, they likely picture lifting weights or taking a high-intensity exercise class. Walking is often dismissed as “just...
WASHINGTON — (Thursday, March 12, 2026) A federal jury convicted Darren Patrick Riley, 45, of Honolulu, Hawaii, yesterday of 12 counts related to his trafficking and sexual exploitation of five minor boys in Oahu in 2019 and 2020.
According to evidence presented at trial, Riley used the app, Grindr...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Vanuatu has allocated US$160,000 to response efforts for the ongoing minor eruption on Ambae Island.
Local media reported Prime Minister Jothan Napat saying there is a contingency plan in place should the Ambae community need to be evacuated.
A level-three alert remains...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — When Fonotī Pati Umaga slipped in the shower in 2005, he didn't know it would be the last day he would ever feel his legs.
"While I was in the shower, I actually slipped, and I can remember that I was doing the running man, trying to get my balance, and then my feet just...