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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Saipan Tribune is reporting that a Republican majority in a U.S. House of Representatives committee has rejected Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan’s (D-MP) proposal to create a grant program to cover the difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition for CNMI...
WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior announced Monday nearly $7 million from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to advance climate resilience and restore lands and waters through impactful ecosystem restoration work in the U.S. territories. American Samoa’s share is $1,799,000.
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Washington, D.C. — American Samoa is receiving grants totaling $1.7 million ($1,681,971) funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) as notified by Assistant Secretary Carmen Cantor in a letter to Governor Lemanu P.S. Mauga and Congresswoman Aumua Amata.
The Office of Insular Affairs (OIA),...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Recipients of the Department of Human and Social Services’ Food Stamp Program will soon, no longer be required to make the monthly trip to the Food Stamp Office at Utulei to uplift their Food Stamps, but instead will be able to access them using Electronic Benefit...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Rain bands from Tropical Cyclone 11P (fornerly Tropical Depression 98P) began passing northeast of the Manu’a Islands early today. Damaging winds and flooding were in evidence from satellite images, mainly over Manu'a and Rose Atoll, while Tropical Cyclone Nat is passing...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On January 4, 2024, a Department of Public Safety (DPS) police officer contacted the Tafuna Police Substation (TPS) regarding a female who allegedly assaulted her boyfriend on the Nuuuli Public Highway, near Family Mart store.
The defendant, Hilda Luki was charged with...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — VA Pacific Islands Health Care System is continuing to make PACT Act enrollment a priority, as well as other community outreach events from those who are unable to come to a VA Hospital location. To meet this goal, on Feb 23rd and 24th, there will be a PACT Act...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The thoughts and opinions of community members, specifically US Nationals of Samoan descent, 18 years and older on the issue of American Samoa’s birthright citizenship, are being sought by two local filmmakers in an on-line application which goes ‘live’ starting today,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Senate passed in third reading last week an administration bill which amends the government deposit requirements to meet the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) regulatory rules for deposit of all government funds.
The final vote was 13-1.
The amendment...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The low pressure system that just passsed over American Samoa now has generated a tropical cyclone alert for the southern Cook Islands.
In its latest special weather bulletin for southern Cook Islands, the Fiji Meteorological Service said a tropical depression (TD06F)...