American Samoa

American Samoa's Commerce Department director, Keniseli Lafaele, says another federally mandated minimum wage hike would be the final nail in the coffin for the economy.

Authorities in American Samoa are urging people to vigilant for king tides in the next few days.

American Samoa's member of the US Congress Aumua Amata says a low minimum wage will help local businesses in the territory to survive.

A taskforce in American Samoa is working more closely with communities to combat the growing use of illegal drugs.

There are delays for some patients needing scans at American Samoa's LBJ Hospital with a partial withdrawal of labour by the clinic.

An environmental group has launched an online petition aimed at preventing American Samoa's Rose Atoll Marine National Monument from losing its protected status.

There's growing concern in American Samoa's business community over the state of the economy.

Residents of American Samoa who normally apply for their US visas at the US Embassy in Samoa will have to go to New Zealand or Fiji to get their documents over the next three months.

American Samoa's Homeland Security director, Samana Semo Ve'ave'a, has called for the community to join together to eliminate a drug problem in the territory.

Apia-based Talofa Airways has confirmed direct flights to Tonga from American Samoa and Samoa will be launched at the end of the month.

Two days of clinics for high school American football coaches will be held in American Samoa this week, featuring two well-known coaches from Washington State University.

The American Samoa director of agriculture believes there's enough local taro to withstand the impact of a ban on imports from Samoa.

The American Samoa Telecommunications Authority says from this week it will start deactivating the mobile phones of customers who have not dialed their phones for some time.

The American Samoa Government is cutting vehicle fuel vouchers for government departments by 50 percent.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says in a new study in American Samoa and the other territories, that the risk for Zika-related birth defects falls in each trimester.

The two Samoas are trying to work out an agreement to address their divergence in tsunami warning systems.

Weather forecasters and disaster management officials from the two Samoas are meeting to discuss what they have learned from the just concluded tropical cyclone season.

A former senior executive of StarKist, which owns the StarKist Samoa cannery in American Samoa, has been charged in the US with one-count of price fixing.

The American Samoa Department of Agriculture has suspended importing of all taro and taro shoots from Samoa, effective immediately.

American Samoa's member of the US Congress says she can understand the disappointment Pacific Islanders feel about the US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Change Pact.