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Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has signed an agreement with the US Federal Aviation Administration releasing over $22 million for the relocation of the airport jet fuel tanks and to finance airport improvement projects.
The funds were made available following a request by the governor to US...
![Data was collected from 13 of the 20 groups that conducted monthly cleanups during the 2016 3rd quarter of the AS-EPA Keep American Samoa Beautiful program in the Territory. [Courtesy photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/KASB_6788.jpg?itok=lleJKUyV "Data was collected from 13 of the 20 groups that conducted monthly cleanups during the 2016 3rd quarter of the AS-EPA Keep American Samoa Beautiful program in the Territory. [Courtesy photo]")
The AS-EPA KASB program has continued its efforts to clear roadsides, streams and beaches of littered trash. Of the 20 groups that are conducting monthly cleanups, 13 were able to submit data from April to June 2016 showing the types of trash collected from their adopted areas. The committed groups...
Washington, D.C. – Wednesday, September 28, 2016 — Congresswoman Aumua Amata, took to the House floor and issued the following statement last week, to honor her colleague and friend, Representative Mark Takai of Hawai’i, who passed away last month after a long and hard fought battle with cancer....
House Vice Speaker Fetu Fetui Jr., seems to believe the Criminal Justice Planning Agency (CJPA) is not doing enough to get more federal funding to help the Department of Public Safety, which is faced with a shortage of police officers and financial resources.
Fetui’s reaction came Wednesday during...
With a new adult male inmate building completed and dedicated, Police Commissioner Save Liuato Tuitele plans to use the old building, currently housing the general adult male population, for “training in trade” for Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) inmates.
NEW INMATE BUILDING
The new $3.11...
![[courtesy photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/2fishermen%20and%20coastweeks.jpg?itok=CEa-0KNE "[courtesy photo]")
Local ‘alia fishermen were invited to take part in the Coastweeks Fun Beach Day, held last week sat the Su’igaula ole Atuvasa Beach Park in Utulei, hosted by the Department of Commerce (DOC).
The excited fishermen started setting up before 6 a.m. but by then, anxious customers were already waiting...
Through a Sept. 27 general memorandum, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has appointed an eight-member task force to review Health Department nurses’ salary reclassifications, following a proposal by the department’s nurses.
The governor appointed his special assistant Iulogologo Joseph Pereira to “...
LOLO ORDERS FLAGS LOWERED FOR FORMER ISRAEL LEADER PEREGov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has ordered flags in American Samoa to be flown at half-staff as a mark of respect for the memory of Shimon Peres, the former president and prime minister of Israel.
Peres died early this week at the age of 93 after...
Two local businessmen have filed separate complaints with the US Transportation Department over Hawaiian Airlines’ new policy in which passengers can no longer pre-select seats via the airline’s website or kiosk in its Pago Pago flights.
Hawaiian spokesperson Ann Botticelli told Samoa News on...
The US Department of Transportation has granted approval of a joint application filed in July by US based American Airlines and Fiji’s national carrier, Fiji Airways to expand the two carriers’ code-sharing agreements — in which each airline publishes and markets a flight under its own airline...