Northern Marianas

The Northern Marianas governor has passed a law banning handguns in the territory - but it can't be implemented.

Part of a once-thriving mall in the Northern Marianas could be restored as a medical facility.

A Chinese tourist in the Northern Marianas has been charged with harbouring illegal aliens as part of an unlicensed business.

The Northern Marianas has been given US$181,048 by the US government to help the island of Rota eradicate the recently discovered coconut rhinoceros beetle.

The Northern Marianas will allow the US air force to use the international airport on Tinian if the Anderson Air Force Base on Guam is rendered unusable.

A woman has been killed on Saipan and her husband is intensive care after a knife attack following a heated argument with one of their tenants over a $US50 power bill.

The mayor's office on Saipan in the Northern Marianas says it's rounded up 11 percent of 21,000 stray dogs counted three years ago.

The tourism industry on the Northern Marianas continues to boom.

The Northern Marianas has recorded the highest growth rate in its economy in the history of US territories.

A federal judge has rejected the US military's request to dismiss a legal challenge to its training plans for the Northern Marianas.

To alleviate Saipan's dearth of hotel rooms, a Chinese company wants a 400-foot luxury cruise ship to serve as hotel or 'floatel.'

A group representing the interest of the native people of the Northern Marianas is not supporting calls to amend the Commonwealth's constitution to allow longer lease terms on public lands.

The Northern Marianas' delegate to Washington Gregorio Sablan says he is vehemently opposed to US government plans to strip previous state residents of the right to vote in presidential elections.

The Northern Marianas' only hospital is now in a better position to retain nursing staff after they were awarded pay rises of up to 30 percent.

Increased tourist arrivals and a recovering economy have led to a record budget in the Northern Marianas.

The project manager for the main contractor on the Saipan casino in the Northern Marianas has been sentenced to six years jail.

There are doubts that the huge casino project in the Northern Marianas will be complete by August as planned.

A Guam senator, James Espaldon, is facing censure in the Guam Legislature for his role in the Northern Marianas Commonwealth Utilities Corporation's controversial generator purchase earlier this year.

A group in the Northern Marianas wants a statue of Amelia Earhart built on Saipan to acknowledge what they say is the famous aviatrix's connection to the island.

Both houses of the Northern Marianas congress has swiftly passed a compromise version of its $US145 million budget for 2018.