Last Sunday, 22 young kids in their fishing outfit sailed out of the Saipan waters to join the first international fishing derby for children organized by businessman JM Guerrero.

A ranking member of the U.S. House Resources Committee ended yesterday a low-key visit to the Northern Marianas in what appeared to be part of the elaborate preparation for the forthcoming oversight hearing on the island’s conditions in Washington D.C. Rep. Bob Schaffer...

Two asylum seekers, one of them a former student activist in Beijing, yesterday asked the federal court to stop the US and CNMI governments from sending them back to China where they are facing persecution.

Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio, accompanied by three other administration officials, will leave on September 9 for Washington D.C. to attend the upcoming oversight hearings called by the U.S. House Resources Committee and the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.