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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Senate has approved a resolution establishing a new investigative body tasked with examining the operations of government agencies and ensuring public officials comply with territorial laws, regulations, and policies.
The newly created Senate Government Operations...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Alarmed by the continued influx of synthetic drugs into the Territory, senators have begun questioning whether government agencies tasked with border security, customs enforcement, and criminal investigations are adequately fulfilling their responsibilities.
Lawmakers...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Senate has approved a resolution establishing a new investigative body tasked with examining the operations of government agencies and ensuring public officials comply with territorial laws, regulations, and policies.
The newly created Senate Government Operations...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Environmental Protection Agency (AS-EPA) announces that its Water Laboratory has received full certification from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 to perform microbiological analysis of drinking water using the Colilert procedure.
The...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Thirteen (13) students at the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) will receive the National Science Foundation (NSF) S-STEM scholarship, which supports students at Hawaiian and Pacific island Institutions of higher education, this semester. The scholarship aims to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — After the House of Representatives and Senate concluded their final sessions of the Fourth Regular Session of the 39th Legislature last Friday, lawmakers gathered for a milestone event many had been waiting years to celebrate: the official opening of their new offices at...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Alarmed by the continued influx of synthetic drugs into the Territory, senators have begun questioning whether government agencies tasked with border security, customs enforcement, and criminal investigations are adequately fulfilling their responsibilities.
Lawmakers...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming the announcement of NOAA funding for regional and national ocean observing. The 11 new five-year cooperative agreements announced Thursday will enable U.S. IOOS regional associations to operate regional coastal observing systems (RCOSs...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — It will be a busy weekend in American Samoa as residents gear up for White Sunday, the centerpiece of a 3-day holiday that ends with Columbus Day, also known as Indigenous Peoples Day, on Monday.
WHITE SUNDAY
Introduced in the islands by Christian missionaries in the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Department of Port Administration (PAAS) is moving forward with an ambitious renewable energy project at Pago Pago International Airport that could become the largest solar power development ever built in American Samoa.
The proposed project combines a large-scale...