Flags return to full-staff today All CNMI and U.S. flags that were lowered to half-staff starting since Nov. 11 as a mark of respect for the memory and longstanding service of Oscar C. Rasa will return to full-staff today, Nov. 19, at sunset. Rasa, the first speaker of the CNMI...

In 1783, then-New York governor George Clinton proposed that in every state at least one public college should train people for entry into military service. In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed into law the Morrill Act that said in part “…the maintenance of at least one...

More federal and military personnel are expected to arrive in the coming weeks as the CNMI slowly returns to normal after being devastated by two typhoons in nearly two months. Gov. Ralph DLG Torres said last week that over 900 military personnel are already helping the islands...

The CNMI celebrated yesterday the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I at the American Memorial Park, with several members of the U.S. military who are providing relief efforts here, attending. Gov. Ralph DLG Torres, who gave the welcoming remarks at the ceremony,...