The former executive director of the Commonwealth Utilities Corp., Utu Abe Malae, passed away this morning at the LBJ Medical Center in Pago Pago, American Samoa. He had just returned to American Samoa from the U.S. mainland last week where he had undergone medical treatment for...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP)—A passenger’s body has been found in the Pacific lagoon where a plane crash-landed last week near an island runway in Micronesia. Air Niugini had initially said all 47 passengers and crew had survived when the Boeing 737 crashed near the Chuuk island...

A snapshot of the CNMI based merely on its minimum wage paints a very different picture from just 11 years ago, in 2007, when the minimum wage was pegged at $3.05 an hour, making the CNMI a low-wage economy. That’s no longer true. Starting in 2007, staggered 50-cent increases...

SANTA RITA, Guam—After responding and rendering aid to the passengers and crew of Air Niugini flight PX56 following its crash landing in Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia last Sept. 28, sailors from Underwater Construction Team 2 continued their humanitarian efforts by...