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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...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Last week, Pacific leaders flocked to Honolulu in hopes of making a deal with the United States.
The "Pacific Agenda" investment summit was followed with a visit of US officials to Tonga, Fiji and Samoa. Leading them was Christopher Landau, deputy to Marco Rubio.
Among a...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The DMWR Wildlife Team attended the International Sea Turtle Symposium from February 28 to March 6, 2026 on the big island of Hawaii.
This is the first time in the societies history the symposium to be hosted in Polynesia. The symposium brings together global experts,...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa and the United States of America have formally signed the landmark Open Skies Agreement, paving the way for increased direct flights between the two nations and expanded opportunities for cooperation in aviation and beyond.
The Agreement was signed on Monday at Taumeasina Island...