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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Trump administration's decision to eliminate more than 90 percent of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) funding means "nothing's safe right now," a regional political expert says.
President Donald Trump's government has said it is slashing around US$...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Samoa govt is offering a $ST5000 cash reward to anyone that has information on the whereabouts of a rapist that leads to his arrest.
So far the offer has attracted few leads that police were unable to substantiate.
Acting Police Commissioner, Leiataua Samuelu...
Nukunonu. TOKELAU — In Tokelau, communities are looking after baby turtles after they washed up on the shores of islands in the remote atolls.
Tokelau is a dependent territory of New Zealand, made up of three atolls, in the southern Pacific Ocean.
Five-year-old Ilissapesi Sakalia and her mum Elena...
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — A volcanologist says a new artificial intelligence (AI) volcano forecasting tool, with the potential to save lives around the world, is still some way off being rolled out in places like Tonga.
It uses data from well-monitored volcanoes and applies it to under-monitored...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Every year 10 Samoan women are diagnosed with cervical cancer, a disease which leads to death if detected late and can be prevented through vaccination.
The ministry is working on a new vaccination program.
Cervical cancer is currently the sixth most common form of...
Washington, DC — U.S. Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) has reintroduced two measures in the 119th Congress (2025-2027) calling for moratoria on the mining of our world’s deep seabed unless and until its potentially destructive consequences are fully understood and an appropriate international protective...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Nevada National Guard was in Samoa for four days marking the first United States engagement after US President Donald Trump announced aid cuts.
They visited Samoa from February 17-21, 2025 to continue its ongoing collaboration with the Samoa Fire and Emergency...
Apia, SAMOA — The second power loss in less than a week threw the island of Upolu into the dark on Tuesday around 8.30 pm Samoa Time.
According to the Samoa Observer, the blackout did not spare the National Hospital at Motootua with patients reportedly wandering in the dark and vehicle headlights...
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — The New Zealand Herald is reporting more than 100kg of cocaine has been busted in a smuggler’s bags at Auckland International Airport.
Customs officers were doing routine border enforcement when they checked a number of bags arriving off a Hawaiian Airlines flight on...
Suva, Fiji — A transformative US$107 million grant has been secured by Conservation International and the Pacific Community (SPC) to support 14 Pacific Island countries to safeguard the economic and social benefits they receive from tuna against the impacts of climate change.
The historic Green...