The Saipan Higher Education Financial Assistance program has awarded over $900,000 worth of college scholarship funds for the current fall semester. As of last week, SHEFA awarded funds to its 11th batch of scholars. The SHEFA program received a total of 892 applications since...

Takahisa Yamamoto has paid Florida-based National Maritime Services, the former custodian of cargo ship M/V Luta. With the payment, U.S. District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona vacated the scheduled Oct. 5, 2017, hearing on NMS’ request to reinstitute contempt...

Since the start of the school year, three students have already been referred to the committee that handles truancy cases in the CNMI, but despite the committee’s limited staff, it is working hard to keep the number low. According to Bobby L. Coldeen III, coordinator of the...

There will be a scheduled water service outage tomorrow, Sept. 23, 2017, from 4am to 12pm in the San Antonio, Chalan Kanoa, Susupe and San Jose areas. Water personnel of the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. will be conducting leak detections and numerous tests on the water pressure...