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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Guam's governor is demanding formal consultation over a proposed deep sea mineral lease sale in federal waters off the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI).
Governor Lou Leon Guerrero said Guam was left out of a process afforded to the CNMI.
Leon Guerrero...
HONOLULU — The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council last week called on federal agencies to move forward with long-awaited green sea turtle status reviews in Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) and American Samoa — an important step in addressing Pacific...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Most Pacific countries were among 34 nations which did not vote on a decision to admit Palestine to the 81st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
Leaders from across the region are making their way to New York for assembly week.
The UN said the vote became necessary...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A New Zealand national and a Samoan national have been charged by Samoa Police in relation to the alleged shooting murder of an Australian citizen and suspected gangleader in Vietnam in May.
In a joint statement, Samoa Police and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) said...
HONOLULU — The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council will meet Sept. 15–17, 2026, to consider several fishery management actions affecting American Samoa, Hawai‘i and the broader Western Pacific. These actions include fishing access around Muliāva (Rose Atoll), regulations for...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Samoa hosted a regional fisheries monitoring workshop from 31 August to 9 September, bringing together fisheries staff from Tokelau, American Samoa and Samoa with facilitation from the Pacific Community (SPC). Representatives from Conservation International Samoa were...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A reporter with Hawaii News Now has described a "wild" night as Hurricane Lowell passed by, with power out on Tuesday morning and some oceanfront houses destroyed.
The US National Weather Service has lifted all warnings related to the storm, although it said swells from...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Beauty pageants remain an important part of cultural and social life in many Pacific Island countries, although their significance vary across the region.
Pageants such as Miss Pacific Islands, Miss Samoa, Miss Heilala (Tonga), Miss Hibiscus (Fiji) and Miss Cook Islands...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Hurricane Lowell is now pulling away from the main Hawaiian islands after passing just west of Niihau as a Category 2 hurricane.
At 2 a.m. Tuesday, Lowell’s core was 110 miles northwest of Lihue, or 215 miles west-northwest of Honolulu, and was moving to the north at 18...
HONOLULU — Where can large fishing vessels operate around American Samoa? How much bottomfish can be sustainably caught there in the coming years? What science will guide the future of fishing in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands?
These are some of the questions the Western Pacific Regional Fishery...