The House Ways and Means Committee has started reviewing the fiscal year 2019 budget. The committee’s review of the budget proposal offered by Gov. Ralph DLG Torres is some six months well before the deadline of a final product on Oct. 1, 2018, according to the committee’s...

Newly appointed Public School System athletics program director Nick Gross is bringing back interscholastic sports competitions this month with the staging of a basketball tournament among middle schools on Saipan. Tanapag Middle School, Francisco Mendiola Sablan Middle School,...

A bill that would have converted the Northern Marianas Trades Institute into a public institution—and thus receive public funds—has been vetoed. In his transmittal message to the 20th Legislature last Friday, March 16, Gov. Ralph DLG Torres expressed reservations about the bill’s...

The University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities at the Northern Marianas College recently sponsored a four-day training visit by Eric Folk, postsecondary supports project director of the Center for Disability Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.  NMC...