Aware that an economy without enough workers could lead to a decline in economic activity, the Saipan Chamber of Commerce has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security to ask for a minimal reduction in the CW-1 cap for fiscal year 2018. Chamber president Velma Palacios...

As part of ongoing efforts to improve children’s health and nutrition in the CNMI, four Northern Marianas College students were selected to be a part of a summer fellowship program that sought to better understand the various aspects of health and nutrition in the CNMI and to...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection enforces the laws of 40 different federal agencies and being one of the Unites States’ first line of defense when it comes to customs and border protection is something they do with earnest intent. “CBP officers and staff have as much invested...

Three snailfishes to be named were collected during a National Marine Fisheries Service survey for deepwater shrimp in the Mariana Islands in the early 1980s and have yet to be named up to now. The specimens were caught in shrimp traps at a depth of 3,000 to 4,000 feet. They are...