Nurses Week in the territory culminates today with a ‘social night’ planned for the caretakers from the LBJ Medical Center and the Department of Health.
American Samoa joins the rest of the nation on Sunday in celebration of Mother’s Day, which was designated on the second Sunday in May each year by the US Congress, via a joint resolution approved
Le aufusu mai Samoa i le taimi na fa’atoa taunu’u mai ai i le malae va’alele i le afiafi nei, e sauni ai mo le latou ta’aloga ma le aufusu a Amerika Samoa i le taeao a taeao i le Maliu Mai i Fogagogo. [ata AF]
O le afiafi nei lea na taunu’u mai ai le aufusu mai Samoa ma le fa’amoemoe latou te fa’afetauia le malosi o le aufusu filifilia a le atunu’u, mo le la Ta’amilosaga o Fusuaga Fa’avaomalo lea ua fa’a
A roundup of some of the most popular, but completely untrue, headlines of the week.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church, the biggest sponsor of Boy Scout troops in the United States, announced Thursday it is pulling as many as 185,000 older youths from the organizatio
![[photo: BC]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/fatumafuti.jpg?itok=GHL7mANb "[photo: BC]")
With the recent wet weather conditions, callers have been reaching out to Samoa News, worried that the mountainside at Fatu-ma-Futi, which was recently excavated, is a catastrophe waiting to happen
![WELCOME TO THE 21ST CENTURY: Police senior officer, Lomu Mosese (left), demonstrated yesterday for a motorist, the Department of Public Safety’s new “electronic citation” or e-Ticket system, in which a police officer uses a laptop to issue a traffic violation ticket to a driver and the citation is automatically transmitted to the District Court. [photo: AF]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Police%20n%20eTicket_0.jpg?itok=4szX99Pj "WELCOME TO THE 21ST CENTURY: Police senior officer, Lomu Mosese (left), demonstrated yesterday for a motorist, the Department of Public Safety’s new “electronic citation” or e-Ticket system, in which a police officer uses a laptop to issue a traffic violation ticket to a driver and the citation is automatically transmitted to the District Court. [photo: AF]")
Three developments are happening right now at the Department of Public Safety.
![Falaniko Penesa who took second place in last year’s competition is from Samoa. [photo: PCC]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Fireknife%20Falaniko%20PenesaJPG.JPG?itok=V97WpDdr "Falaniko Penesa who took second place in last year’s competition is from Samoa. [photo: PCC]")
Laie, HAWAII — Twenty-five years ago, Pulefano Galeai of the Polynesian Cultural Center had a vision to create an annual competition honoring one of Samoa’s most revered and dangerously be