U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs director Nik Pula recently met with Gov. Ralph Torres in the CNMI where they discussed challenges in disaster recovery efforts, Medicaid funding shortfalls, and labor issues affecting the commonwealth. Pula also...

Office of Insular Affairs director Nikolao Pula met with Gov. Ralph DLG Torres and other CNMI officials on Capital Hill yesterday to formally award over $2.4 million in Technical Assistance Program and Maintenance Assistance Program funding for the CNMI. The $2,409,879 in TAP and...

The grant application process to apply for grant funding through the Office of Insular Affairs is open. Funding applications may now be submitted through March 1, 2019, through three Interior programs: technical assistance program, maintenance assistance program, and the brown...

WASHINGTON—Doug Domenech, U.S. Department of the Interior Assistant Secretary, Insular and International Affairs, this week released an additional $198,051 in fiscal year 2018 technical assistance program grants for the U.S. Virgin Islands to help streamline the coordination of...