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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In an effort to enhance disaster response and management capabilities, the Nevada National Guard (NVNG) is initiating a Subject Matter Expert Exchange (SMEE) between the Samoa Disaster Management Office (DMO) and the Nevada Division of Emergency Management (DEM) agency....
Honolulu, HAWAII — Honolulu police have arrested a woman in connection with the 2023 death of her 11-year-old adoptive daughter, according to reports in Hawaii News Now.
On Dec. 22, 2023, first responders were called to a home in Laie where they found Azaeliyah Pili-Ah You lying unresponsive with...
Honolulu, HAWAII — Children ages two to eight years across 11 Pacific jurisdictions (Alaska, American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Hawai'i, Marshall Islands, and Palau) are not meeting daily recommended intakes for key micronutrients,...
Apia, SAMOA — Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mataafa remains the leader of the government after surviving a second vote of no-confidence vote in two weeks.
The motion of no-confidence was moved by the chair and leader of the Fa’atuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi (FAST) Party La’auli Leuatea Schmidt.
The...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — This past Thursday University of Hawaii President Wendy Hensel announced that the UH Foundation is working to raise funding for graduate students amid the Trump administration’s recent federal fund freeze.
The UH foundation launched its Graduate Student Success Fund as a...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Trump administration's decision to eliminate more than 90 percent of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) funding means "nothing's safe right now," a regional political expert says.
President Donald Trump's government has said it is slashing around US$...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Samoa govt is offering a $ST5000 cash reward to anyone that has information on the whereabouts of a rapist that leads to his arrest.
So far the offer has attracted few leads that police were unable to substantiate.
Acting Police Commissioner, Leiataua Samuelu...
Nukunonu. TOKELAU — In Tokelau, communities are looking after baby turtles after they washed up on the shores of islands in the remote atolls.
Tokelau is a dependent territory of New Zealand, made up of three atolls, in the southern Pacific Ocean.
Five-year-old Ilissapesi Sakalia and her mum Elena...
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — A volcanologist says a new artificial intelligence (AI) volcano forecasting tool, with the potential to save lives around the world, is still some way off being rolled out in places like Tonga.
It uses data from well-monitored volcanoes and applies it to under-monitored...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Every year 10 Samoan women are diagnosed with cervical cancer, a disease which leads to death if detected late and can be prevented through vaccination.
The ministry is working on a new vaccination program.
Cervical cancer is currently the sixth most common form of...