Unsettled about their future labor and immigration status, many of the foreign workers of Imperial Pacific International (CNMI) LLC chose not to renew their contracts and opted to leave the CNMI, according to a senior company official. Speaking at last week’s Commonwealth Casino...

A lightning that hit the Commonwealth Utilities Corp.’s power plant in Lower Base yesterday morning plunged the entire island of Saipan into a power blackout. The incident, according to a CUC statement, happened at 9:02am due to an early morning thunderstorm. CUC said that Power...

The CNMI Public School System expects a budget shortfall before the school year ends if it doesn’t get the additional $3.7 million that was promised it and has yet to be collected from the Casino Gross Revenue Tax. PSS received $36.5 million in the fiscal year 2018 budget. This...

The Bureau of Environmental Health suspended yesterday the operation of Happiness Chinese Restaurant in Garapan after it was found in violation of sanitary regulations, not because of a video that claimed that the establishment was serving cat meat. A video and photos posted on...