Representing the stance of the Saipan municipal government, Mayor David M. Apatang has come squarely behind a bill that proposes to extend public land leases to a maximum of 75 years. Despite the opposition of the Northern Marianas Descent Corp., which supports the status quo,...

Gov. Ralph DLG Torres wrote the U.S. Supreme Court’s clerk of court last July 4 to rebut Attorney General Edward Manibusan that the petition that Torres and the Commonwealth Election Commission filed about the voting rights issue before the high court was unauthorized. In a...

The Commonwealth Office of Transit Authority continues to make strides in its goal to bring a full-fledged public transportation system to the Commonwealth, according to Alfreda P. Camacho, the Torres administration’s special assistant for Public Transportation. “The procurement...

The Department of Public Lands would be awarding homestead lots by November 2017, Homestead Division director Ray Salas told Saipan Tribune. The delay in drawing lotteries was due to the division prioritizing the identification of land interest associated with people who have...