Lightning strikes Rota; IT&E services in Songsong intermittent On Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015, at around 2pm, lightning struck the island of Rota causing a power outage. As a result, landline, Internet, and cellphone services on Rota were affected. IT&E personnel were...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency wants Soudelor survivors on Saipan to get all available assistance. However, they also want to make sure no one ends up having to return money. FEMA’s Individual Assistance program provides grants to Saipan survivors. About $20 million has...

The Nepal Tinian Society Inc. recently organized the Teej Festival for all its women members at the main pavilion of Kammer Beach on Sept. 15, 2015. Teej is the fasting festival of women in Nepal. Married women observe the Teej fast to honor Lord Shiva and to pray for a long and...

Whenever it is adopted, a fiscal year 2016 budget bill will arrive on Gov. Eloy S. Inos’ desk with 5-percent salary increase for law enforcement personnel and a budget cut worth $2.5 million from the Marianas Visitors Authority’s programs, as lawmakers broke a weeks-long impasse...