WASHINGTON, D.C.— Interior Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas Esther Kia’aina announced Friday $670,000 in Technical Assistance Program grant funding from the Office of Insular Affairs to the government of the Northern Mariana Islands to support priority needs identified by...

The Historic Preservation Office has identified Capital Hill for a potential archaeological survey. This, according to the HPO director Merti Kani, would be to “document the architecture of buildings that are 50 years or more old.” In a Historic Preservation Review Board meeting...

Sixteen cases have been referred to the CNMI State Board of Education’s School Attendance Review Committee, or SARC. Several referral forms are waiting to be signed, according to BOE last week. This would bring the number to “near 20” cases. In December, Saipan Tribune reported...

The draft CNMI Joint Military Training Plan Environmental Impact Statement is out, a document of more than 1,000 pages that evaluates the potential impacts of proposals to increase joint military training capabilities by developing live-fire ranges and training areas on Tinian...