One of four diving students accompanied by an instructor reportedly panicked and drowned at Lau Lau Bay Dive Spot last Saturday afternoon. Department of Public Safety spokesperson Jacqueline Rae said yesterday that the victim, a 56-year-old Chinese male tourist, was pronounced dead by hospital personnel at the Commonwealth Health Center’s emergency room. The tourist is the third drowning victim at Lau Lau Bay and the sixth on Saipan this year. Two other tourists had been swept by waves and...

McDonald’s Saipan is not affected by last week’s recall of its salads from 3,000 of its restaurant franchises particularly in midwestern states in the mainland after a parasite that causes a gastrointestinal illness was found. McDonald’s Saipan general manager Joe Ayuyu Jr. told...

Same-sex tourism that flourished in the CNMI back in 2016 is still all the rage and only continues to grow. Since 2015 when same-sex marriage was legalized in the U.S. and its territories, there has been a significant jump in the number of same-sex marriages on Saipan, majority...

A bill that includes three U.S. territories into a nationwide system for locating missing children has been introduced on the U.S. House of Representatives. Guam Delegate Madeleine Bordallo (D-GU) introduced over the weekend H.R. 6350 to incorporate Guam, the CNMI, and American...