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Washington, D. C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is highly supportive of the new bipartisan Task Force appointed to investigate the attempted assassination of former President Trump and all related security and procedural questions.
The Task Force announced Monday follows bipartisan House passage...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Ghaydah Amazing Grace Mageo Salave'a, a high school student from Pago Pago, American Samoa, has been selected as one of only 15 students nationwide for the esteemed NOAA Youth Changemakers Fellowship. This exclusive program, which kicks off with a summit in Washington, D...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — At the opening of the Fourth Regular Session of the 38th Legislature, Governor Lemanu P.S. Mauga submitted an FY2025 budget request for $733,683,167. Of that amount, the local budget of $165,907,000 represents 23% of the total. It also represents a 16% increase over the...
Washington, D.C. — Greenpeace USA celebrates American Samoa’s decision to impose a moratorium on seabed mining in its waters. Governor Lemanu P.S. Mauga’s order underscores the severe risk of deep-sea mining, including threats to marine biodiversity, habitat destruction, pollution, and disruption...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On June 1, 2024 at about 10:04am, a woman walked into the Fagatogo Police Station (FPS) to report an incident that occurred between her 15-year-old niece and a 22-year-old male individual, who the victim identified as her boyfriend.
The defendant was charged with the...
Washington, D.C. — The U.S. House last week passed the Department of the Interior’s Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2025, H.R. 8998, that funds American Samoa’s DOI Operations fund, and all federal interior and insular grants and services, as well as local EPA...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With American Samoa’s largest private industry relying on the locally based fishing fleet for fish supply and access to fishing grounds, the protection of the local EEZ in order to mitigate climate change calls for sustainable management of ocean resources and protection...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Congregational Christian Church of American Samoa (CCCAS) has rejected the government's offer to buy the five acres of the Naumati Lowland Forest that they own for $2.1 million.
The five acres of land in question is directly opposite the CCCAS compound in Tafuna and...
WASHINGTON — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata attended Isreali Prime Minister Netanyahu’s address to Congress on July 24. “Just a few years ago we celebrated the peaceful advancements of the Abraham Accords, and last year, we celebrated with Israel for their 75th anniversary. Then the world changed...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A passenger on Talofa Airways Flight 511 from Faleolo International Airport firmly believes that it was but for the grace of God that they survived when the plane landed and then crashed when its front wheel came off as it started to taxi down the tarmac at Pago Pago...