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Anchorage, ALASKA — Members of Alaska’s Court of Appeals appeared skeptical Thursday about Alaska prosecutors’ claim that a Whittier resident from American Samoa violated state law when she ran for school board in 2023.
In an hour-long oral argument, a three-judge appeals panel heard arguments for...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A state appeals court is being asked to dismiss felony voter misconduct charges against an Alaska resident born in American Samoa, one of numerous cases that have drawn attention to the complex citizenship status of people born in the U.S. territory.
In arguments Thursday,...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt has confirmed that Press Secretary Nanai Laveitiga Tuiletufuga has resigned and the cabinet has accepted his resignation.
"Because I am rushing to take a flight to Pago, but I will on Friday take some time on Friday to thank Nanai...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Just over a week after the United States announced its withdrawal from the Pacific Regional Environment Program (SPREP) — China has stepped in to fill the funding gap.
President Donald Trump included the scientific organization among a list of others that US government...
Apia, SAMOA (December 12, 2026) — A series of coordinated drug raids carried out by the Samoa Police in Savai‘i last Thursday led to the arrest of 15 individuals—11 men and four women—and confirmed the troubling spread of methamphetamine to the Big Island.
The number was later reduced to 12 after...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Uncertainty around compensation payments for the HMNZS Manawanui marine disaster in Samoa is growing, with the paramount chief of one of the affected villages questioning whether money from the New Zealand government should be distributed at all.
Atanoa Tusi Fa'afetai,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Metals Company spoke out recently saying at the dawn of the deep-sea nodule collection industry nearly fifty years ago, U.S. companies tested a range of nodule-collection technologies. These early pioneers understood the challenges, and their choices reflected the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Samoa is set to become the third Pacific nation to have an embassy in Jerusalem.
Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Polataivao Schmidt told a gathering of the Sāmoa branch of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem on Tuesday he'd instructed the country's Ministry of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Moeaia Tuai will be sentenced next month for enslaving a young woman in New Zealand who he forced to work and sexually abused. Two victims broke free from the Auckland man's control in harrowing echoes of New Zealand's most infamous slavery trial, but such prosecutions...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — During a webinar hosted by Right to Democracy and the America the Beautiful for All Coalition, civil society organizations from Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands announced they and their national partners collected over 60,000 petitions, letters, and comments in...