The Department of Lands and Natural Resources is now authorized to impose and collect management fees and regulate activities in conservation areas. Gov. Ralph DLG Torres signed Rep. Alice Igitol’s (R-Saipan) House Bill 20-69 last week. The new law authorizes the DLNR, through...

WASHINGTON—Doug Domenech, the U.S. Interior Assistant Secretary Insular and International Affairs, met yesterday with U.S. Virgin Islands and Federal Emergency Management Agency officials in St. Croix to review hurricane rebuilding efforts. He provided $2.8 million in federal...

Gov. Ralph DLG Torres enacted last week a local bill that allows gaming machines to be operated within certain areas on Saipan. Rep. John Paul Sablan’s (R-Saipan) House Local Bill 20-47 intends to allow gaming machines to be operated in areas zoned as mixed commercial but not in...

As stated in his will as his final wish, all 13 parishes in the Commonwealth and community members from all over the island gathered at the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa yesterday to say goodbye to bishop emeritus Tomas Aguon Camacho. Hundreds of people from across the CNMI gathered at...