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![The damaged Twin Commando aircraft. [Photo: supplied / Danika Adam via RNZI]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/eight_col_Talofa_0.jpg?itok=XmyNmPye "The damaged Twin Commando aircraft. [Photo: supplied / Danika Adam via RNZI]")
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is investigating an incident involving a Talofa Airways aircraft last week at Pago Pago International Airport, for which Sen. Magalei Logovi’i has voiced concerns over the slow emergency response from the airport’s rescue crew.
Responding to Samoa News...
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The Department of Public Safety's main central station in Fagatogo will be getting a new look soon, as the entire second floor is being gutted to make way for a new, more modern facility, although efforts will be made to preserve the historic character and properties of the structure.
The historic...
![Newly confirmed DPW director, Kenneth Soala Tupua. [photo: FS]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Tupua%20confirm.jpg?itok=tRCHQlLy "Newly confirmed DPW director, Kenneth Soala Tupua. [photo: FS]")
The new director of the Department of Parks and Recreation, Kenneth Soala Tupua, during his Senate confirmation hearing last Thursday morning. Tupua was confirmed by the Senate in a unanimous 14-0 vote. The House approved his nomination last Friday with a unanimous 16-0 vote.
Tupua, who served in...
![Police Commissioner Lei Sonny Thompson [SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Lei_0413_1.jpg?itok=TY1pTA47 "Police Commissioner Lei Sonny Thompson [SN file photo]")
Four prisoners escaped Sunday night from the Territorial Correctional Facility, and as of late yesterday afternoon, one had been found, while three (3) were still at large, according to Police Commissioner Lei Sonny Thompson.
Le’i did not say how or why the prisoners escaped, and did not identify...
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This past weekend, Samoa News visited the LBJ Medical Center in Fagaalu and watched as some patients — several of them with IVs intact - were walking out of the Emergency Room, heading out to the section of the parking lot where emergency vehicles (ambulance) generally park when transporting a...
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The Department of Health in American Samoa is being asked what measures it's taking to protect the territory from dengue fever.
This followed five deaths in neighbouring Samoa from a dengue outbreak that began in October.
On Friday, American Samoan senator Nuanuaolefeagaiga Saoluaga Nua called for...
American Samoa is participating in the Girls Go CyberStart program, a free online cybersecurity game offered by the SANS Institute. This was announced by Governor Lolo Matalasi Moliga in a press release issued last week.
The primary objective of this program is to introduce our youth to the field...
Popular Reggae Soul band, Culture Crew, from Utah, U.S.A, is heading to both Samoas next month.
On tour with a mission to weave the two universal languages of music and love, these soulful singers aren’t just coming to serenade us with their soulful sounds.
Their goal is also to end the water...
![Will the tint on this recently recevied police car pass muster if new rules are passed into law? [SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/policecar_1.jpg?itok=eF66-Zy8 "Will the tint on this recently recevied police car pass muster if new rules are passed into law? [SN file photo]")
To “address public safety concerns”, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has submitted for Fono approval, legislation that seeks to update the territory’s “tint law” which has not been updated since 1972, when the law was first put in place regulating tint on vehicles.
Not clearly stated in the law is...
![Rendering of the proposed new Fono Building. [SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/fono%20bldg%20rendering_28.jpg?itok=ZB1o-Feq "Rendering of the proposed new Fono Building. [SN file photo]")
Proposals to amend local tobacco law to include e-cigarettes and raise the smoking age to 21; as well as the protection and rights of all senior citizens, are some of the planned measures the Lolo Administration is looking at submitting to the Fono for review and consideration.
The proposals are...