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Hagåtña, GUAM — A case of dengue fever in Guam is believed to be the first to be contracted locally in the last 75 years.
Pacific Daily News reports the sick person has no travel history outside of Guam, with all previous dengue cases imported from off-island.
The Department of Public Health is...
Kona, HAWAII — The two people found guilty earlier this year in the brutal beating of a Big Island security guard have been sentenced to life behind bars with the possibility of parole.
Kona Circuit Judge Melvin Fujino sentenced Natisha Tautalatasi and Wesley Samoa on Thursday.
A third...
Apia, SAMOA — The Asian Development Bank is to give Samoa a grant of more than $US62.26 million to enhance the safety, security and sustainability of Apia Port.
An ADB transport specialist, Alexandra Pamela Chiang, said improved climate and disaster resilience at the port along with better border...
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — Pacific leaders are paying tribute to the late Tongan prime minister, 'Akilisi Pohiva, who died on Thursday.
The 78-year-old died in an Auckland hospital having been evacuated from Tonga on Wednesday with pneumonia.
'A beacon of democracy': RNZ's obituary for Mr Pohiva, who...
Wellington, NEW ZEALAND — Police forces around the Pacific have been caught off guard by the growth of the methamphetamine trade in the region.
That's the view of a specialist in transnational crime and drug trafficking in the Asia-Pacific.
The deportation policies of Australia, New Zealand and the...
Apia, SAMOA — The Samoan woman who dumped her new born baby in a restroom rubbish bin in Kuala Lumpur, has been returned home to face charges. She was accompanied by Samoa’s Consul General in Canberra, Australia.
Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi told Talamua that negotiations between...
Washington, D.C. — A US federal agency has directed nearly $US2 million in funding to three Pacific states to fight an opioid crisis.
The money is part of a $US932 million government package given to US states and territories to combat drugs.
Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia and American...
Washington, D.C. — Aumua Amata announced she is co-sponsoring the effort to protect the U.S. flag through a Constitutional amendment.
“In American Samoa, we have a very high rate of military service, and we all have friends and family serving under the flag somewhere,” said Aumua Amata. “We also...
APIA, SAMOA —The long awaited Centre of Excellence, more formally known as the Pacific Climate Change Centre (PCCC), was officially opened today in Apia, Samoa during the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)’s 29th Meeting of officials.
The PCCC is a partnership between...
Apia, SAMOA — Police in Samoa are reviewing CCTV footage to try and find how a baby's body came to be dumped in a rubbish bin in Apia.
The body was discovered a week ago at Mulifanua wharf, and a forensic examination of the scene has been carried out.
It comes less than a month after another baby's...