Local News

Taotasi Archie Soliai and Cherith Lober- Soliai
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Nine executive branch directors of the previous administration will continue to serve in the new Lemanu Administration as acting directors, according to the list of acting directors, cited in Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga’s Jan. 3, 2021 general memorandum...
Congresswoman Uifaatali Aumua Amata Radewagen
Washington, D.C. — Sunday, January 03, 2021 — Congresswoman Uifaatali Aumua Amata Radewagen was officially sworn in to serve the people of American Samoa for a fourth term in Congress as the new 117th Congress convened. “At the start of each Congress, each Member swears an oath to the U.S....
Chief Justice Kruse
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Sierra Isaia’s revocation hearing has been continued after Chief Justice Michael Kruse said that the court would not rest until it gets to the bottom of the case and finds out who stopped probation officers from conducting a drug test on the defendant at the Territorial...
ASCC students performing the ava ceremony
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The “First Edition” of the “Tusi Fa’alupega o Tutuila ma Manu’atele” — book of salutations for Tutuila and Manu’atele — was officially launched last Friday morning at the “Afioga Tufele Li’amatua Sr. Tufele Cultural Center” at Su’igaula o le Atuvasa Park at Utulei Beach...
American Samoa District Court building
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man who was convicted by the District Court for assaulting his wife has been ordered to spend 10 days at the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) as a condition of a 12-month probation term. The detention period will see the defendant spending 5 straight weekends at...
Rendering of the proposed new fono building.
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Right after the members of the Senate and House were sworn-in yesterday during their separate ceremonies, both chamber convened for day-one of a five-day special session called by the new governor to address funding for Fiscal Year 2021 for ASG operations. In his...
Senators raise their hands during the swearing-in ceremony
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — No disputes occurred yesterday morning when the 18-member Senate took the oath of office in a ceremony which was presided over by Chief Justice Lealaialoa Michael Kruse that started 12:00 noon. Additionally, after all the senators took their oath, they then elected...
Chief Justice Lealaialoa Michael Kruse (far left) presides over the swearing in of the new governor, Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga (third from left)
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On an overcast late Sunday morning yesterday, American Samoa’s newly elected leaders, Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga and Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo Va’alele Ale were sworn into office before 11:30a.m to take the helm of government for the next four years. It...
ASG govt logo
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Government is under a “holiday/partial government shutdown” today, Jan. 4, 2021, except for cabinet directors and employees of the Department of Public Safety, Heath Department and LBJ Medical Center, along with Emergency Medical Service (EMS). This...
Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga and others breaking ground for new business building for  G.H.C Reid & Company
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga led a small group ‘turning the soil’ this past Thursday morning during the ground breaking ceremony of the “Future Home of Ford Go Further, Samoa Motors” and  “Hyundai Pago Motors” at an empty lot at the government housing compound in Tafuna —...

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