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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Hawaiian Airlines “has had to re-time our flight schedule” and move arrivals and departures to the daytime at Pago Pago International Airport. This scheduling change will be in effect until the latter part of July, according to the airline’s spokesperson Ann Botticelli,...
![Chief Justice Michael Kruse [SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Kruse_0723_14.jpg?itok=_NjjUCqC "Chief Justice Michael Kruse [SN file photo]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “… the sellers, the manufacturers and many other people should be filling the jail, not sick people.” This was the message from Chief Justice Michael Kruse, who says the executive and legislature branches need to hear that drug abuse is a medical problem. This came as...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Congratulations to the new 2018 Miss SOFIAS Mz. Valentana Faumuina, who snatched the crown away from 4 other contestants last Saturday night in one of the best and highly competitive SOFIAS Pageants ever held.
This pageant brought forth an over-the-top form of beauty...
![This recent FEMA photo shows Tropical Storm Gita disaster survivors who visited the recovery center set up in the ASG office in Ofu, where they registered for federal disaster assistance, and got help with low-interest loan applications through the US Small Business Administration. [photo: FEMA]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Ofu%20DRC.jpg?itok=RTtoTVMr "This recent FEMA photo shows Tropical Storm Gita disaster survivors who visited the recovery center set up in the ASG office in Ofu, where they registered for federal disaster assistance, and got help with low-interest loan applications through the US Small Business Administration. [photo: FEMA]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA – When local culture clashed with how FEMA usually delivers federal help to solve the dilemma, leadership met with American Samoa Government officials to develop a plan to help survivors of Tropical Storm Gita, yet satisfy federal guidelines.
Without street signs or...
![This Samoa News photo on Saturday morning, Apr. 21, 2018, shows the vessel, CS Responder, laying the undersea fiber optical cable for Hawaiki Submarine Cable LP, anchored off Fogagogo. Crew on two small boats are seen on the ocean, as VIPs and guests gathered on Fogagogo the high rocky shoreline area - close to the airport runway - to witness the Hawaiki cable landing. [photo: FS]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/hawaiki%20cable_1087.jpg?itok=vqjZv3CL "This Samoa News photo on Saturday morning, Apr. 21, 2018, shows the vessel, CS Responder, laying the undersea fiber optical cable for Hawaiki Submarine Cable LP, anchored off Fogagogo. Crew on two small boats are seen on the ocean, as VIPs and guests gathered on Fogagogo the high rocky shoreline area - close to the airport runway - to witness the Hawaiki cable landing. [photo: FS]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The long anticipated Hawaiki undersea fiber optic cable officially landed in American Samoa over the weekend, with the promise of providing high speed internet connectivity and much improved telecommunication service.
The American Samoa branching unit of Hawaiki, which...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Hawaiian Airlines “has had to re-time our flight schedule” and moved arrivals and departures to the daytime at Pago Pago International Airport. This scheduling change will be in effect until the later part of July, according airline’s spokesperson Ann Botticelli, adding...
![The Hawaiki cable. [Photo: RNZ / Jesse Chiang]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/eight_col_hawaiki_-_cable.JPG?itok=jt8SDRbQ "The Hawaiki cable. [Photo: RNZ / Jesse Chiang]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Even before it arrives, the Hawaiki marine fibre optic cable is generating interest and excitement in American Samoa over the benefits its touted to bring.
Engineers have arrived from America, who will connect the cable to its landing site in the old state department's...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Attorneys for ANZ Guam Inc. are planning to travel to American Samoa to interview bank employees and “conduct a pre-response investigation” in connection with a federal lawsuit filed by three American Samoa residents at the federal court in Guam, according to the latest...
![[SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/AM%20Samoa%20HC_110.jpeg?itok=xYuomES1 "[SN file photo]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The High Court is satisfied there is probable cause that Tolupo Hodges violated several conditions of a probation sentence that was ordered by the court in 2010.
The decision by Chief Justice Michael Kruse was based on the testimony from one government witness, who was...
![31 soliders who were killed in Malaysia and Vietnam and have been lying in non-commonwealth war cemetaries [Photo: Supplied: Bob Davies via RNZI]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/eight_col_Stone.jpg?itok=LSIhbgOm "31 soliders who were killed in Malaysia and Vietnam and have been lying in non-commonwealth war cemetaries [Photo: Supplied: Bob Davies via RNZI]")
RNZAF Base Ohakea, NEW ZEALAND — The first repatriation of defence force personnel buried around the world since 1955 will officially begin next week.
Two airmen will be disinterred from the Suva Military Cemetery in Fiji, and one from the naval section of the Satala Cemetery in Pago Pago, American...