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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In Aotearoa, a small community is celebrating a huge win against 80 years of sand mining on their coastline.
Pākiri beach is about 90-minute drive north from Auckland's city center. It has been depleted of millions of tons of Holocene sand used for high-strength concrete...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In August 2025, Creative West introduced the awardees of Creative West’s inaugural Pacific Jurisdictions Artist Fund (PJAF). Forty-five artists and cultural practitioners across American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (Saipan, Rota, and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The retail prices for petrol and kerosene have decreased, while the price of diesel has increased in the changes in fuel prices that go into effect on Monday, 1 September.
Petrol decreases by 2.6 sene per litre, from $3.02 to $2.99, diesel increases by 4.7 sene per litre...
LAUMUA I UASIGITONE -
Lau susuga i le Taitai o le sauniga
Le mamalu o le Tapuaiga
Ou Paia Faale-Talalelei
Ou Mamalu Faale-Malō
Ou Sā ma Faigā Faale-Aganuu. E afua mai ou Ao, e pau mai i sē aupito itiiti. Le Paia atoa uma ua tatou tapua’i faatasi i le Maota o le Galuega i nei Henderson, Fort...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is congratulating the Samoan Congregation Church, Joint Base Henderson Hall-Myer, which is celebrating 55 years at this location.
“It is a special delight to congratulate this wonderful congregation which celebrates an amazing 55 years of...
Apia, SAMOA — (August 30, 2025) The people of Samoa have spoken at the ballot box, choosing to elect a new leader, La‘aulialemalietoa Leuatea Polataivao Fosi, and in doing so, returning the Fa'atuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi (FAST) Party to power.
Unofficial preliminary results from last Friday's...
CDC News (August 28, 2025) — A CDC food safety alert regarding a multi-state outbreak of Salmonella infections linked to eggs has been posted: https://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/outbreaks/eggs-08-25/index.html
Samoa News is publishing this CDC news alert as most of the eggs in the territory are...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — New information shows Canadian mining group The Metals Company (TMC) is a step closer to deep sea mining in international waters under controversial US laws.
Two Pacific nations, Nauru and Tonga, are involved as the company's partners, even though the US process sits...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Voting commenced in Samoa on Friday, with more than 100,000 eligible voters heading to the polls to decide the country's next government.
A total of 187 candidates will contest 50 seats in parliament, representing six political parties and 46 independents. The governing...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Aumua Amata, vice chairman of both the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific and the Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs, the two main congressional committees with legislative...

![Pakiri seabed sand mining protestors voice their opposition as a McCallum Bros' sand mining ship moves by. [Photo: Northern Advocate] Pakiri seabed sand mining protestors](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/sand_mining.jpeg?itok=9O-0mjtf)

![Petrol and kerosene prices decrease while diesel price has increased. [Photo: Junior S. Ami] TRAFFIC IN SAMOA](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/vehicles_in_samoa_copy.jpg?itok=tYcWhaNB)


![Red, the FAST Party’s color, dominates roughly 75 percent of the country, while smaller patches of blue mark the Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP), green represents the Samoa Uniting Party (SUP), and brown indicates Independents. [courtesy photo] Samoa elections](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/samoa_elections_2025.png?itok=SKr-uvDX)

![An image from the National Oceanography Centre shows a carnivorous sponge, photographed during an expedition to the NE Pacific abyss and found in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ). A recent executive order by US President Donald Trump could open the door to Nauru deep sea mining in the CCZ. [Photo: National Oceanography Centre/ AFP] carnivorous sponge](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/deep_sea_creatures.jpg?itok=q1ypUQTh)
![Some voters expressed happiness at being able to exercise their right to vote, while others said they prayed for God to bless the election. [Photo: RNZ / Mark Papalii] Voters showing the mark indicating they had voted](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/samoa_voting_copy.jpg?itok=nyjmnf8x)
![Republic of Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine is a longtime personal friend and Amata said she will pledge to work for whatever assistance President Heine needs to get the legislative property reconstructed. [courtesy photo] Amata with Republic of Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/amata_and_marshall_president_.jpg?itok=L_eMY6UJ)