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(Washington, DC) — U.S. Representative Ed Case (Hawai‘i – First) announced that the U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bipartisan foreign policy measure that included a provision of his Pacific Partnership Act to strengthen ties between the United States and our partners in the Pacific.
H.R...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa Customs has intercepted 1,835 grams of methamphetamine concealed in four bags of rice from a personal consignment sent from the United States.
The seizure was made on Thursday, September 4th by the Ministry of Customs and Revenue through its Customs Service. It is the third drug...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In recent years, Pacific island nations have earned global credibility as champions of climate action. Pacific leaders view sea level rise as an existential threat.
But this united front is now under strain as some Pacific nations pursue a controversial new industry –...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Samoa’s Prime Minister-elect, Hon. La'aulialemalietoa, has received warm congratulatory messages, from the Prime Ministers of Samoa’s closest regional development partners, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.
After a phone conversation with the Samoan Prime Minister-...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Ten Alaska residents faced arraignment Thursday on voter misconduct or other charges in cases that have renewed attention on the complex citizenship status of people born in the U.S. territory of American Samoa.
Those facing charges — most of them related to one another —...
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...


![Packages of methamphetamine seized by Samoa Customs in a targeted operation on September 4, 2025. The drugs were concealed in rice bags shipped from the United States. [Samoa Customs] Packages of methamphetamine seized by Samoa Customs](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/meth_in_samoa.jpeg?itok=ZexWi1Ty)
![Many species live on the seabeds, seamounts and hydrothermal vents which would be targeted for mining. Pictured: a crab crawling across a field of polymetallic nodules near Gosnold Seamount. [photo: NOAA] crab on sea bed nodules](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/crab_on_seabed_nodules.jpeg?itok=g5bA0CKh)

![Michael Pese and his wife Tupe Smith pose for a photo with their son Maximus and daughter cataleya in Whittier, Alaska, May 13, 2025. [AP Photo/ Mark Thiessen] Pese family](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/alaska_samoans_copy.jpg?itok=QDbr_vIu)
![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)

