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Apia, SAMOA — Negotiations are currently underway to have the Phase One of the street and residential address naming project available online via platforms such as Google Map for ease of navigation.
This was confirmed by the Minister of Works, Transport and Infrastructure Olo Fiti Va'ai who also...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The airport at Fagalii is all set to open for the third time in two decades amid nearby residents expressing mixed emotions at having small aircraft flying overhead again.
Most of the locals who live within the vicinity of the aerodrome had grown accustomed to the...
Apia, SAMOA — While usually it's the kids and Sunday schools who perform on Mother's Day in Samoa, the Congregational Christian Church Samoa (CCCS) Fagalii, the faifeau Petaia Leapai, and the fathers of the church decided that this year it would be the fathers who would take the lead on Sunday with...
Honolulu, HAWAII — Members of Congress are demanding answers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on how it plans to hold the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council accountable for nearly $1 million in “misspent” federal funds.
U.S. Reps. Ed Case, Raul Grijalva,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Samoa’s journalist association JAWS is condemning the actions of Minister for Communication and Information Technology Toelupe Poumulinuku Onesemoa over his treatment of a Samoa Observer journalist.
The country's media association released a statement on Tuesday after...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa police are refuting claims by a politician alleging that a mysterious boat from overseas entered Samoan seas and docked at Aleipata on Upolu without proper documentation.
Suspended Lepa M.P. and the leader of the Human Rights Protection Party, Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi in an...
Apia, SAMOA — The wife of a Cabinet Minister lodged a complaint on Friday night with the Samoa police against a journalist from the Samoa Observer newspaper, according to a report in the independent nation’s leading newspaper.
The complaint stems from a story that Samoa Observer reporter Sialai...
Apia, SAMOA — Authorities in Samoa are investigating the circumstances of an infant’s death shortly after a set of twins received a routine vaccination.
On Wednesday evening, the Ministry of Health (MOH) notified the public of the incident in a statement issued to media outlets.
Signed by the...
Alpena, MICHIGAN — Thirty leaders from National Marine Sanctuaries met this week in Alpena, Michigan to celebrate progress, discuss continuing strategies, and tour the city.
“This is an annual event,” John Armor, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of National...
As island paradises, the unincorporated territories of the United States have many commonalities in several respects. Beyond history, politics, and perception, the very nature of Puerto Rico, Guam, the US Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands has a remarkably similar...