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Washington, D.C. — Tuesday, May 4, 2020 — Congresswoman Aumua Amata welcomed a grant for American Samoa Power Authority (ASPA) of over $1.2 million through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
This award provides $1,200,749.98 in federal funding for...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Even though we will have slightly above average temperatures this week, easterly trade winds will increase up to 20 mph at times from Wednesday through Friday night.
Latest satellite visible imagery loop continues to show fair weather cumulus clouds moving over the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The US Treasury and the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have approved American Samoa’s implementation plan for the disbursement and distribution of the stimulus payments to local qualified tax payer under provisions of the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man who is on probation for stealing was arrested again by police on the allegation he violated local drug laws.
Uelese Toia was a passenger in a red pick-up truck that was pulled over by police two weekends ago in Iliili where two glass pipes (commonly used to smoke...
Apia, SAMOA — An engineer from LBJ hospital traveled to Samoa this past Friday to repair Samoa’s only C.T. machine. The Samoa Observer reports that the C.T. has been out of order since at least October.
(C. T. or computed tomography is a type of imaging used in hospitals. It uses special x-ray...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man convicted of unlawful possession of illegal drugs told the court that the eight and a half months he spent in prison was more than enough to teach him a good lesson to become a better man in the future.
When given the chance to address the court, Ah Chong Lefatia...
Portland, OREGON — Recently, Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) took a look at how the pandemic has changed lives of Oregon college students. And they found that life has changed rapidly for many of them in the past few months, including Motu Sipelii from American Samoa.
Sipelii, 22, is a first-...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man accused of violating local drug laws had asked the court to set his matter for trial. Lui Iputi, who had been in custody since his arrest last year, unable to post $5,000 surety bond, appeared in court last month for his pretrial conference.
When his case was...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Governor has apologized to the families of two firemen who were killed in the line of duty last week.
Yesterday's meeting of the Coronavirus Taskforce started with a moment's silence week for Captains Allen Talofa Velega and Mike Tipoti.
Governor Lolo...
Pago Pago, AMERICA SAMOA — Rain will be limited across the American Samoan island chain to begin the work week. However winds, clouds and chances for rain will all begin to increase over the islands Wednesday through Thursday.
The latest model suggests a dominant high pressure to the south, keeping...