A proposed legislation wants to abolish the Department of Public Lands and establishing in its place the Marianas Lands Corp. with a Board of Trustees. In a statement Friday afternoon, Rep. Felicidad Ogumoro (R-Saipan) said the MLC Board of Trustees “will manage and control the...

HONOLULU—The U.S. Coast Guard’s search for a missing diver ended when a body was located 23 miles southeast of Nawilliwilli, Friday. A commercial tug transiting from Kauai to Oahu noticed a strobe light at 5:20 a.m. Friday, which was attached to JJ Jackson’s bouyancy...

Commonwealth Utilities Corp. executive director Alan Fletcher welcomes Best Sunshine’s International, Ltd.’s 9-megawatt addition to the power grid, calling this the kind of commitment the struggling utility needs to help lower power costs. According to Fletcher, CUC has lost half...

Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (Ind-MP) introduced a bill supporting ocean and coastal research in the CNMI. In his weekly e-newsletter, Sablan said, “Together with congressmen Don Young (R-Alaska) and Frank Guinta (R-New Hampshire), I introduced legislation this week to...