Local News
Honiara, SOLOMON ISLANDS — Tahiti has moved up to third sport on the 2023 Pacific Games medal tally, dropping Samoa to fourth spot after Tuesday's rounds of competition. The Tahitians are now chasing Australia, who remains at second spot behind New Caledonia.
Tahiti has 33 gold medals, compared to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — One of the Atoa o Samoa Talks agreements materialized on Nov. 27, 2023 in American Samoa — the exchange of food security methods and expertise between the Fishery Divisions of the two Samoas — with a gift of 500 baby giant clams from Samoa.
On Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — PRI on Scientific advisors to the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council are meeting this week to provide advice and comments on the proposed Pacific Remote Islands (PRI) sanctuary as well as U.S. territorial bigeye tuna catch and allocation limits, and...
Honolulu, HAWAII — Aigalesala Toelupe, a freshman from American Samoa majoring in psychology, said she has come to realize her journey into the field of design was more than just a hobby. She said it was destiny waiting to be created in the material aspects of her life as she continued to pursue...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa’s environmental groups and government agencies answered CNN's Call To Earth Day and found out what can be achieved when communities mobilize for conservation.
In a remarkable display of community collaboration, the Leone High School Forestry Program, NOAA...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A little locally known fact — November is Native American Heritage Month
A local resident told Samoa News that he has been trying to get the Jean P. Haydon Museum interested in “Native American Heritage Month”, which was signed into law by former US President George H. W...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Congregational Christian Church of American Samoa’s Rev. Elder Dr. Leatulagi Faalevao has been elected Moderator for the Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC) for the next four years, starting 2024- 2028.
A delegation of six members from the CCCAS, including the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a legal dispute spanning over eight years, John Newton has attempted to prosecute a formal complaint against the American Samoa Telecommunications Authority (ASTCA) for alleged breaches of a telephone directory project contract. All the details of the proceedings,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On Nov. 8, 2023, three individuals were booked and confined at Tafuna Correctional Facility (TCF), to await their arraignment at court, following their arrest for trespassing after four of them were stopped allegedly on property they had no right to be on. A fourth...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Pacific Association of Supreme Audit Institutions practice development director Sinaroseta Palamo-Iosefo visited American Samoa recently on a knowledge-sharing mission.
The primary purpose of Palamo-Iosefo’s trip was to collaborate with the American Samoa Government...