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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — While the criminal case against the Governor’s Chief of Staff Fiu Johnny Saelua makes its way through the judicial process, the Wage and Hour Division of the US Department of Labor has concluded its investigation into claims of unpaid wages for a young woman who lived...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With the pending, yet-to-be scheduled fiscal year 2019 budget hearings, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has called on cabinet members to provide for the Fono all requested information, which are important in getting the budget process completed. It is a call he has repeatedly...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The NOAA/NWS Pacific International Training Desk (PITD; Pacific Desk) at the University of Hawaii is hosting its first in-country training program in American Samoa at the Weather Service Office (WSO), Pago Pago with participants from Samoa, Tokelau and Tonga...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Aumua Amata welcomed President Donald J. Trump’s signing of the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2019, H.R. 5515, in a signing ceremony at Fort Drum, New York on Monday, where the President and Vice President Mike Pence...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Director of the American Samoa Environmental Protection Agency (AS-EPA) Ameko Pato passed away unexpectedly over the weekend. News of Pato's death spread like wildfire Sunday evening, after family members and friends posted messages of condolences on Facebook and other...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — As a result of Tropical Storm Gita early this year, more than $60 million in federal financial assistance “has been and will be injected” into the local economy, while the government’s insurance claim for loss and damage caused by the storm stands at over $16 million,...
Pago Pago, AMARICAN SAMOA — A 31-year-old man who was accused of burglarizing a warehouse and a store in the Tafuna area and stole property has pled guilty, under a plea agreement. Tua’ifuaina Va’apu’u appeared in High Court last week for a Change of Plea hearing.
He was originally charged with 1st...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Environmental Protection Agency (AS-EPA) will be holding its first meeting today, Monday, August 13, 2018 with their new Regional Administrator Mike Stoker, who is based out of USEPA's Region 9 Office in San Francisco. Stoker arrived Thursday night,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Flanked by enthusiastic supporters, Congresswoman Aumua Amata yesterday delivered to the American Samoa election office petitions signed by nearly 600 voters endorsing her bid for reelection to the U.S. House of Representatives in the general election to be held on...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Some of the more than 50 off-island delegates to the 40th Meeting of the US Coral Reef Task Force (USCRTF) traveled to Manu’a over the weekend for diving to witness the world’s largest coral head in waters off Ta’u island as well as blue coral in waters off Ofu Island....