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HONOLULU – The Department of Veterans Affairs awarded a $427,038 grant to a community-based organization in Hawaii that provides adaptive sports programs.
This funding is part of $16 million in grants awarded to 91 organizations nationwide to advance adapted sports programs for Veterans and active...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Pacific political champion for loss and damage has told a Pacific symposium that the region losses from climate impacts go far beyond money.
Tonga's Hu'akavameiliku Siaosi Sovaleni said non-economic losses and damages from the climate crisis must be recognized in...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A national study shows the visual arts and music are the most popular art subjects among primary and intermediate children.
The Curriculum Insights and Progress study tested and surveyed more than 4500 children in Years 3, 6, and 8 and their teachers last year.
It asked...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Veteran journalist Alan Immensely Ah Mu, known as Li’o Fa’avaivaiomanū, was laid to rest in Samoa after his body was returned from New Zealand for a family service honoring his life and connection to his people. Ah Mu, 68, died peacefully at his home in New Zealand on...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Few people on Earth have seen a polymetallic nodule 4 kilometers under the ocean, but Rob McCallum is one of them.
"They are anywhere between the size of a potato or a baseball and they are black," he said.
McCallum is a divemaster and founder of EYOS Expeditions, a firm...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — This is not like the movies where a lone scientist is about to save the world with an idea only they have.
Some of it is obviously absurd.
Like the research saying sniffing chocolate in the gym will increase your leg power. Or the study proving one trip is worth a year...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Samoa's Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa (La'aiuli) Leuatea Schmidt has apologized for a historical video in which he used the term "Heil Hitler".
"I have been made aware of historical video footage reported in the media relating to a private family gathering in Savai'i...
HONOLULU — The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) awarded $2,183,905 in grants to three grantees for Hawaii community organizations that provide suicide prevention services to Veterans in Hawaii.
This funding is part of $112 million in grants awarded to 191 organizations nationwide to support...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Commercial deep sea mining (DSM) in the Cook Islands and other pro-mining Pacific countries could begin as early as 2027, an Australian-based think tank predicts. However, the Cook Islands Seabed Minerals Authority (SBMA) maintains that exploration will continue until...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Journalists Association of Samoa (JAWS) is demanding answers over the removal of a journalist's camera and the deletion of photographs taken while she was covering a public event.
According to the Samoa Observer, Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa (La'auli) Leuatea...