American Samoa

Officials from the Pacific Islands Fish and Wildlife Office are in American Samoa to solidify plans to list five species as endangered.

American Samoa is to get just over US$17 million from the US government for the federally funded school lunch program for the new fiscal year.

The American Samoa Department of Agriculture will receive a grant of just over $250,000 from the US government to support local specialty crop initiatives.

American Samoa is looking to partner with the National University of Samoa in an effort to increase the number of public high school teachers with degrees in areas like maths, science, and English.

American Samoa has dengue fever cases under control, with only four cases of seen at the LBJ Hospital two weeks ago.

American Samoa has proposed two birds, two tropical snails and the only insect-eating bat in Polynesia to be listed as endangered.

The US President Barack Obama has signed into law a 40 US cent hike of the hourly minimum wage for workers in American Samoa.

The top advisor to American Samoa's governor says the decision to increase the minimum wage by 40 cents per hour will devastate American Samoa.

Employees at American Samoa's largest tuna cannery say they are happy their wages have increased, but have reservations about their job security.

The American Samoa governor has vetoed parts of the bill for this year's budget.

Over 90 workers at the American Samoa Department of Health, employed under a training programme, have been sacked.

The remote American Samoa island of Ofu and Olosega will have a longer wait for fuel supplies, after a ferry bringing fuel was forced to turn around and return to Pago Pago.

American Samoa's minimum wage will likely increase this week, despite the US House of Representatives extending a wage moratorium.

The House of Representatives has voted to delay a 50 cent minimum wage increase in American Samoa until 2017.

Today marks six years since the Pacific tsunami that claimed 189 lives across Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga. On Saturday, American Samoa held a memorial service for the 34 victims...

The US government has announced the release of more than seven million US dollars worth of grant funding to American Samoa.

Agencies in American Samoa have been holding exercises this past weekend to test the territory's preparedness for a tsunami.

Jean-Michel Cousteau has added his voice to widespread protest about US boats fishing in American Samoa.

The American Samoa Governor wants the US Government to dismiss a call for longliners to be allowed to fish in the territory's Large Vessel Protected Area.