It is inconceivable how textile labor union-backed Democrats in the US House of Representatives have pushed for a federal takeover of labor and immigration here. I've said it before and I'll say it again, it's nothing more than "pay-back" time or they'd cough their way out of...

A proposed bill requiring pregnant women in the Northern Marianas to undergo a mandatory AIDS test drew opposition yesterday over potential legal problem to the island government.

A change in the open migration policy extended to citizens of the Freely Associated States will allow the CNMI government to deal with their growing population amid limited infrastructures and depleting public funds.

New motor vehicle sales declined 25 percent in 1998 compared to 1997 as many businesses in the CNMI closed shop due to the Asian economic problems.