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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Samoa’s Prime Minister-elect, Hon. La'aulialemalietoa, has received warm congratulatory messages, from the Prime Ministers of Samoa’s closest regional development partners, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.
After a phone conversation with the Samoan Prime Minister-...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Ten Alaska residents faced arraignment Thursday on voter misconduct or other charges in cases that have renewed attention on the complex citizenship status of people born in the U.S. territory of American Samoa.
Those facing charges — most of them related to one another —...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In Aotearoa, a small community is celebrating a huge win against 80 years of sand mining on their coastline.
Pākiri beach is about 90-minute drive north from Auckland's city center. It has been depleted of millions of tons of Holocene sand used for high-strength concrete...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In August 2025, Creative West introduced the awardees of Creative West’s inaugural Pacific Jurisdictions Artist Fund (PJAF). Forty-five artists and cultural practitioners across American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (Saipan, Rota, and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The retail prices for petrol and kerosene have decreased, while the price of diesel has increased in the changes in fuel prices that go into effect on Monday, 1 September.
Petrol decreases by 2.6 sene per litre, from $3.02 to $2.99, diesel increases by 4.7 sene per litre...
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Ou Sā ma Faigā Faale-Aganuu. E afua mai ou Ao, e pau mai i sē aupito itiiti. Le Paia atoa uma ua tatou tapua’i faatasi i le Maota o le Galuega i nei Henderson, Fort...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is congratulating the Samoan Congregation Church, Joint Base Henderson Hall-Myer, which is celebrating 55 years at this location.
“It is a special delight to congratulate this wonderful congregation which celebrates an amazing 55 years of...
Apia, SAMOA — (August 30, 2025) The people of Samoa have spoken at the ballot box, choosing to elect a new leader, La‘aulialemalietoa Leuatea Polataivao Fosi, and in doing so, returning the Fa'atuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi (FAST) Party to power.
Unofficial preliminary results from last Friday's...
CDC News (August 28, 2025) — A CDC food safety alert regarding a multi-state outbreak of Salmonella infections linked to eggs has been posted: https://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/outbreaks/eggs-08-25/index.html
Samoa News is publishing this CDC news alert as most of the eggs in the territory are...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — New information shows Canadian mining group The Metals Company (TMC) is a step closer to deep sea mining in international waters under controversial US laws.
Two Pacific nations, Nauru and Tonga, are involved as the company's partners, even though the US process sits...