Submerged lands control, rampant militarization, and the federal immigration takeover headlined concerns raised at a public hearing last night on a bill to establish the second Marianas Political Status Commission. The commission would review whether the CNMI desires to continue...

A casino tax implemented on Best Sunshine International, Ltd. would be the answer to several funding and revenue problems in the Commonwealth, concerned citizen Glen Hunter believes. According to Hunter, should a 35-percent casino tax be implemented, a “conservative estimate”...

In June 15, 1944, a fleet of American ships dropped anchor in the Saipan Lagoon to liberate the island from the Japanese, and among them was the USS Miami. Among those aboard was Chief Quartermaster Richard Neidrauer, who, for 13 months, did not leave his ship that was deployed...

Lt. Gov. Victor B. Hocog gave the CNMI’s support in the “common barriers” the islands of Micronesia face with non-communicable disease, invasive species, shipping costs, and the effects of climate change, at the 21st Micronesian Chief Executives Summit, or MCES, in Koror, Palau....