President Donald J. Trump just signed H.R. 559 into law, a key legislation that gives improve status to more than 1,000 individuals that are under the categorical parole program. Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (Ind-MP) introduced H.R. 559 last Janaury shortly after the Trump administration announced it was ending humanitarian parole for five groups of people in the Marianas. The Obama administration set up parole programs in 2009 and 2011. The parole covered people who had been born in...

The federal district court on Saipan decided yesterday to allow the forced labor and human trafficking claims of seven Chinese construction workers against casino operator Imperial Pacific International (CNMI) LLC and its two contractors to proceed. The case, Wang, et al. v. Gold...

The Department of Public Safety is currently looking into allegations about a marijuana plantation at a home in Kagman, with a police officer recently accused as the owner of the farm. In an interview with DPS spokesman Adrian Pangelinan, he confirmed that DPS did receive a...

The man who allegedly attacked a police officer while high on butane fumes pleaded guilty to two counts of assault yesterday. Daniel Jake Kaipat, 26, changed his initial not guilty plea to guilty yesterday before Superior Court Associate Judge Theresa Kim-Tenorio. Kaipat pleaded...