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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon attempted to call off the bestowal of the chiefly title Tuisinavemaulumotootua in Apia after late-night concerns and social media backlash, Samoa’s Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt revealed on Monday.
According...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — New Zealand and Samoa have vowed to do more to combat the flow of drugs through the Pacific, which prime minister Christopher Luxon says has become a "super highway".
Luxon and his Samoa counterpart La'aulialemalietoa Polataivao Leuatea Fosi Schmidt have signed...
HONOLULU — (March 13, 2026) From monument fishing regulations to false killer whale science and Hawai‘i fishery catch limits, the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council’s Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) will take up several key issues at its March 17 to 19, 2026, meeting in...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — If you want stronger lifts and more efficient movement, don’t overlook the one activity you already perform most.
When people think about building strength, they likely picture lifting weights or taking a high-intensity exercise class. Walking is often dismissed as “just...
WASHINGTON — (Thursday, March 12, 2026) A federal jury convicted Darren Patrick Riley, 45, of Honolulu, Hawaii, yesterday of 12 counts related to his trafficking and sexual exploitation of five minor boys in Oahu in 2019 and 2020.
According to evidence presented at trial, Riley used the app, Grindr...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Vanuatu has allocated US$160,000 to response efforts for the ongoing minor eruption on Ambae Island.
Local media reported Prime Minister Jothan Napat saying there is a contingency plan in place should the Ambae community need to be evacuated.
A level-three alert remains...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — When Fonotī Pati Umaga slipped in the shower in 2005, he didn't know it would be the last day he would ever feel his legs.
"While I was in the shower, I actually slipped, and I can remember that I was doing the running man, trying to get my balance, and then my feet just...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — United States President Donald Trump's top diplomat in Aotearoa is one step closer to assuming office — more than a year after he was announced.
Billionaire businessman Jared Novelly is the Trump's nominee to be US Ambassador to New Zealand, Niue, the Cook Islands and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Illegal diving and forced entry at the wreck of HMNZS Manawanui have prompted the Samoa government to increase surveillance of the navy vessel.
The Royal New Zealand Navy ship sank in October 2024 off the south coast of Upolu after hitting a reef, spilling hundreds of...
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, — Laura Ah Loo, the widow of the man fatally shot, allegedly by a “peacekeeper” aiming at someone else, during a Salt Lake City “No Kings” rally and march on June 14, 2025, has filed a lawsuit.
The suit — also brought by Taupouga Folasa Samoa, the mother of victim Arthur “Afa...