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Apia, SAMOA — The Journalists Association of Samoa has expressed surprise that the government has not included a press gallery in plans for a new parliament.
The JAWS President Rudy Bartley said he is surprised after years of planning and millions of Australian aid dollars spent on the Fono...
Apia, SAMOA — Not all of the 140 passengers who arrived in Samoa on Friday's repatriation flight from New Zealand were quarantined at government sites.
The Samoa Observer newspaper reported at least nine people had been allowed to quarantine at home.
One such person is historian Meleisea Malama...
Apia, SAMOA — In Samoa a stern warning was issued by the National Emergency Operation Centre restricting the public from setting foot at the Faleolo international airport and the quarantine sites for passengers of the first repatriating flight from New Zealand that arrived over the weekend.
The...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa celebrated its 58th Independence Anniversary on Monday 1st June, 2020 (yesterday in Samoa) online with the official opening and closing ceremonies pre-recorded and distributed to media outlets for broadcast and dissemination.
The opening ceremonies, per request from the...
Washington, D. C. — Archie Soliai was supposed to be leading a meeting at the Turtle Bay Resort on Oahu’s North Shore this week, but instead he appeared on a computer screen with a pixelated view of Pago Pago in American Samoa in the background.
Soliai is the chairman of the Western Pacific...
Honolulu, HAWAII — For people who may not qualify for Medicaid, there is now an alternative: a new, free clinic for people with no insurance during the pandemic.
The Aloha Free Clinic doesn’t officially open until Monday, but doctors started treating patients Friday morning.
“I’m just going...
Apia, SAMOA — Two trigger-happy men accused of firing gunshots to frighten fellow villagers in Faleatiu have been denied bail by Supreme Court Justice Leiataualesa Daryl M. Clarke.
Fotu Baby Mo'a Sanele and his co-defendant Iolamo Sanele Mo'a appeared for a custody hearing before Leiataualesa on...
Big Island, HAWAII — The Hawaii Ulu Producers Cooperative is made up of about 100 farmers — most of them on the Big Island — who grow ulu, Hawaii’s indigenous breadfruit.
"It's part of the culture of Hawaii and that's something we don't want lost," the cooperative's Andrew Trump said.
To work...
Anchorage, ALASKA — “Charge!” You know it, the bugle call in every old Western movie when the cavalry comes riding in.
These days, in the 907, recent high school graduates know their party is being rescued when they hear a very different kind of horn.
A car horn — or rather, dozens of them....
Honolulu, HAWAII (HNN) — A man who was seen in a social media video allegedly shooting a chicken with a spear gun has been arrested.
He was among the latest arrests of alleged travel quarantine breakers.
Authorities say 20-year-old Artyon Zhiryada of Happy Valley, Ore., was charged with...