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Apia, SAMOA — The Samoa government has activated the National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) to prepare for Tropical Cyclone Wasi.
A tropical cyclone warning remains in effect for all of Samoa.
"Heavy rain warnings remain in effect for Samoa; landslides are possible for vunlerable areas,"...
Napier, NEW ZEALAND — A Samoan man the Crown says was trafficked to New Zealand and used as a slave says he was put to work within hours getting off the plane and was constantly beaten for working too slowly.
He is one of 13 complainants to give evidence at the trial of Joseph Auga Matamata, 65, at...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's Supreme Court has issued an order supporting the eviction of families living on government land in Sogi village.
The Samoa Lands Corporation has been trying to move families to new settlements at Tafaigata and Falelauniu for years.
Several families have already left but the 20...
Thursday afternoon, seen in this photo, part of the roof of a home on the Fagatogo mountainside was missing due to damaging winds and heavy rain faced by American Samoa since the weekend. [photo: Leua Aiono]
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — A Samoan artist in her eighties, who is currently exhibiting in Auckland, hopes to encourage more Pasifika to explore their creative talents. Pusi Urale, 81, is celebrating the female form in her exhibition Mafine being held at Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery in West...
Apia, SAMOA — A storm system west of Samoa could turn into a cyclone in the next 24 hours, Samoa's weather service says.
At five o'clock on Wednesday evening (Samoa time) the tropical disturbance was about 260 kilometres west of Apia.
The service said the system, which was moving southeast, had a...
Apia, SAMOA — A former Samoa Methodist church minister has been jailed for four years and ten months for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl.
Togia Tuliau pleaded guilty last year to eight charges of sexual connection and one charge of indecent assault.
The victim, a member of Tuliau's church,...
Honolulu, HAWAII — As disputes over incursions by fishing fleets spread south through the Pacific Ocean, so too the face of maritime patrols is changing. Cook Islands News editor Jonathan Milne reports from Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i.
I lower myself through the black hatch on the top of the USS Tucson...
Napier, NEW ZEALAND — New Zealand's first court trial involving slavery and human trafficking charges has ended its first week in the High Court in Napier and will resume today (New Zealand time).
The trial before Justice Helen Cull and a jury started on Monday last week with horticultural and...
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — An Auckland family has filed a complaint with a hospital in Samoa over its treatment of their late mother.
The Aloese family was in Samoa last month for a family reunion, when the mother had a seizure.
The woman's daughter, Grace Aloese, said an ambulance was called but...