Kan Pacific Saipan Ltd. said in a statement that the terms of the request for proposal released by the Department of Public Lands were not feasible for them to submit their own bid that could have extended their land lease of the Marpi properties. KPS leased the more than...

A Senate bill fresh from the House of Representatives is headed back to the committee level of the Senate for further deliberation as new discoveries were made during House public hearings. Senate President Arnold I. Palacios (R-Saipan) moved his Senate Bill 20-35 back to the...

The House of Representatives passed yesterday—with amendments—the Senate bill that extends the maximum initial number of years for public land leases. That means the bill would have to go back to the Senate for the upper chamber to adopt the amendments before the measure can head...

Local swimming officials are relieved to know that they could still use the Kan Pacific Swimming Pool despite the expiration of the 40-year lease of the facilities in Marpi at the end of this month. Kan Pacific Saipan, Ltd operates the only Olympic-size pool in the CNMI along...