Philippine Consul General Medardo Macaraig is back on Saipan since Monday, over a month after being off-island to attend to his wife who remains in critical condition in Manila.

After a marathon two-day hearing, Superior Court associate judge Joseph N. Camacho placed yesterday under advisement the bid of five marine sports operators to prevent the Department of Public Lands from barring them access to Managaha Island. Camacho said he will issue a...

Gov. Benigno R. Fitial submitted to the Legislature late Monday night a revised fiscal year 2013 budget of $114.320 million, a $12.32-million increase from the original submission of $102 million on March 30. Most of it will be used to end the 16-hour work cuts biweekly and...

Saipan Air’s historic launch and the millions of dollars it would infuse into the economy by bringing in more tourists from Japan and China could have been the single major driving factor in the CNMI’s economic recovery in 2012 but yesterday’s announcement that...