The CNMI State Board of Education has voted to put off a planned lawsuit against the CNMI government on how much the Public School System is entitled to as its share of the government’s annual budget. In a 4-1 vote during last Wednesday’s meeting at the BOE conference room on Capital Hill, the board decided to hold off on bringing to court the issue of what general revenue is and what constitutes the 25 percent of the budget that PSS is entitled to get under the CNMI Constitution. Board...

The CNMI should expect to see more tropical cyclone activity than in 2016 and 2017, but not quite as much activity as in 2015 when typhoons Dolphin and Soudelor ravaged the islands, according to a coordinated assessment by the National Weather Service and Pacific ENSO...

For the first time in CNMI political history, a staggering number of candidates—39 so far, including former governor Juan N. Babauta and former Public School System commissioner Dr. Rita A. Sablan—are running as independent candidates in this Nov. 6 election. The number, however,...

Even small businesses that employ 20 or fewer workers are feeling the impact of the current issue on the lottery system implemented by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for the CNMI-Only Transitional Worker or CW-1 program. Last April, USCIS used a computer-generated...