Gov. Ralph DLG Torres confirmed over the weekend that casino operator Imperial Pacific International (CNMI) LLC paid only a third of its $15-million annual license renewal fee. “I was given an update from [the Commonwealth Casino Commission] and the [Office of the Attorney...

A House bill that amends the law that authorizes the CNMI government to secure a loan from the Marianas Public Land Trust—which had just been introduced at the House of Representatives last Friday—took just six days to zoom past the Senate yesterday afternoon. On a vote of 6-1,...

Ideally, tax refunds and rebates should be released by the end of May or in early June. However, a month and a half after June, the Finance Department has yet to release the tax refunds for fiscal year 2018 and there is still no definite word on when those checks will start...

With roughly a month and a half remaining before the fiscal year ends on Sept. 30, 2019, Sen. Jude Hofschneider (R-Tinian) is confident that a fiscal year 2020 budget bill will be out of the Legislature and in the hands of Gov. Ralph DLG Torres before the deadline. The Senate...