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Apia, SAMOA — The Samoa Police Service continue their pursuit to keep Samoa free of illegal substances and criminal activity with six arrests made over the weekend at Faatoia.
Responding to questions from Samoa Global News, Police Commissioner Su’a Fuiavailiili Egon Keil confirmed that guns and...
Apia, SAMOA — A baby girl born at 12.30am at Tupua Tamasese Meaole Hospital weighing 7lbs 8ozs is Samoa’s first baby of the new decade.
Born to Angela and Faletoa Moli from Falefa, the little princess is her parent’s third daughter and possibly the first baby born this decade if Christmas Island...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's Ministry of Health mental health unit has warned of the growing psychological impact of the measles epidemic and is urging people to seek help.
Seiulialii Dr George Leao Tuitama has told the Observer the unit had been working behind the scenes and so far had seen more than 600...
Nuku'alofa, TONGA — The center of Tropical Cyclone Sarai is now passing over Tonga's main island.
The cyclone has weakened to a category one storm, with forecasters saying Tongatapu can expect winds rising to gale force of up to 90 km/hr, with isolated thunderstorms.
Similar conditions are expected...
Anchorage, ALASKA — A Samoan man residing in Alaska will go on trial early next year at the federal court in Anchorage for robbing a bank of more than $2,000, according to court records.
Totoe Opeti Sakaria, Jr., 22, was first charged in a federal felony complaint filed Dec. 9th but 10 days later...
Apia, SAMOA — Styrofoam plates, containers and cups will be banned in Samoa from 30 January next year.
When Samoa banned single-use plastic bags and straws in January this year, the government also planned a ban on styrofoam containers and cups, but deferred its enforcement until environmentally-...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — While Tropical Cyclone Sarai moves slowly away from Fiji, it is leaving behind damage to homes, crops and some infrastructure across the Fiji group.
Closer to home, an active monsoonal trough to the northwest of the islands will bring damaging winds on Monday morning...
Apia, SAMOA — The Samoa Ministry of Health, in a statement, says there have now been five days without any deaths from measles.
The death toll since the epidemic began in October is 81.
Meanwhile the government announced on Saturday it had cancelled the state of emergency it issued six weeks ago....
Nadi, FIJI — The body of a man has been found in Fiji after he went missing in a river during Tropical Cyclone Sarai.
The maximum winds at its centre are up to 120 kilometres per hour, with momentary gusts to 170 kilometres per hour, hitting the southern island groups.
Two people have now died...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa is about to have its first amusement park, complete with rides, thanks to the founder of the Magic Circus of Samoa.
Samoa Observer reports Tupai Bruno Loyale has taken to social media to promote his new venture built in the grounds of the old Tafaigata Prison.
He posted that his...