Gov. Ralph DLG Torres was elected chairman of the Pacific Basin Development Council during the first day of the Western Governors Association in Kohala Coast, Hawaii. PBDC is a regional non-profit organization that advances economic and social development in the Pacific Islands....

Gov. Ralph DLG Torres met briefly with Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday when the vice president and his wife made a brief stopover at Guam’s Andersen Air Force Base. Pence was coming from the two-day Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea....

WASHINGTON, D.C.—An additional $4 million in Compact Impact funding for fiscal year 2018 will be distributed to Hawaii, Guam, the CNMI, and American Samoa to defray costs and impacts associated with migrants under the Compact of Free Association, or U.S. Public Law 108-188, to...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has wrapped up his trip to the Pacific Islands where he began in Nauru as head of the U.S. delegation to the Pacific Islands Forum and concluded with stops in Guam, the CNMI, American Samoa, and Hawaii before returning...