American Samoa

Nearly 2,000 employees at a cannery in American Samoa will be returning to work this week, after five weeks without pay.

The main defendant arrested after police drug raids two weeks ago in American Samoa has waived his rights to a preliminary hearing in the District Court.

American Samoa's governor Lolo Matalasi Moliga has called a special session of the Fono to change local banking laws and to consider a new High Court judge.

American Samoa's Department of Public Safety is reported to be tracking the whereabouts of a former police officer Steve Tuatoo and has reached out to Samoa for assistance in locating him.

The US Department of Labor in American Samoa has opened a federal investigation into the death of the captain of a US-flagged purse seiner.

More than 1600 care packages were distributed to employees of American Samoa's StarKist Samoa and the can plant, Talofa Systems, at the weekend.

Samoa's government has rejected conditions set by American Samoa to resume exports of taro to its neighbouring territory.

The planned tax reform in the US provides for an extension of the American Samoa Economic Development Credit.

Authorities in American Samoa say there are important lessons to be learned after Friday night's earthquake.

American Samoa's attorney general says as far as his government is concerned it has paid a company for its services to the Department of Human and Social Services.

The American Samoa governor Lolo Matalasi Moliga has approved a rise in wharf charges but vetoed a rise in excise tax.

About US$100,000 dollars has been raised in American Samoa for victims of natural disasters on the United States mainland and its territories.

In American Samoa torrential rain has flooded roads and felled trees and a flash flood warning in effect remains in force this morning.

It's been revealed the American Samoa government has again been the victim of a hacker.

New Zealand construction firm, McConnell Dowell, has been awarded the contract for the upgrade of the Pago Pago airport runway in American Samoa.

An American Samoa fisheries official says the US tuna fleet is "under siege" from groups managing the region's fisheries.

American Samoa's representative in the US Congress Aumua Amata has appealed to fellow lawmakers to support her call for financial assistance to cannery workers who are losing work for six weeks.

Elections authorities in American Samoa have announced three polling places for a special election this week.

A robot will be used to monitor and patrol marine sanctuaries and monuments in American Samoa and Hawaii.