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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Samoa's Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa (La'auli) Leuatea Schmidt paused talks on a refreshed treaty with New Zealand until after the New Zealand general election, despite Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's request to "proceed with it".
La'auli made the revelation at a...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The buzzword of the 2026 U.S. midterm elections may be affordability, but growing anger over inequality is behind the sentiment.
A Pew Research survey released in October 2026 found that roughly 6 in 10 Americans — including 4 in 10 Republicans — believe there’s too much...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) — A bipartisan measure that aims to prevent seafood fraud is now federal law.
President Donald Trump signed into law Tuesday the Illegal Red Snapper and Tuna Enforcement Act, led by U.S. Sens. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Katie Britt, R-Alabama, Tommy...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Pacific police chiefs have established a new regional policing organization aimed at combating transnational crime, including drug trafficking, human smuggling, child sexual exploitation, money laundering, and firearms trafficking.
The Pacific Community of Policing, or...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Acting Commissioner of Public Safety Lauti Tautalasoo Moliga represented American Samoa at the 53rd Pacific Islands Chiefs of Police Conference held in Saipan, Northern Marianas. The conference, themed “From Tradition to Transformation: Future Proofing Pacific Policing...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Fiji's constitutional reform process has brought the question of who is or can be a 'Fijian' back to the fore.
Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka's coalition government has begun the public consultation process on the Constitutional (Amendment) Bill 2026 in its efforts to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The University of Hawaiʻi’s Pacific Disaster Center, based in Kihei, Maui and the independent nation of Samoa last Wednesday began a yearlong assessment of the island nation’s disaster risk, down to the village level, as forecasters warn El Niño could reach historic...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) — The pilot of a plane declared an emergency shortly before landing at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport Monday morning.
First responders were sent to the airport to await the arrival of the Amazon air cargo jet as it came in around 8 a.m.
Officials say a bomb threat...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Guam has begun recovering from Super Typhoon Champi, with government offices reopening and cargo operations partially resuming, although widespread power outages and dangerous marine conditions persist.
Meanwhile, the neighboring Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A former editor of Samoa's only independent daily newspaper has characterized Samoan Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa (La'auli) Leuatea Schmidt as a "dictator" under whose leadership the "law has been compromised".
Shalveen Chand, who led the Samoa Observer as its...