American Samoa

The Department of Health in American Samoa is being asked what measures it's taking to protect the territory from dengue fever.

There are proposals in American Samoa to amend and tighten local tobacco laws.

A Talofa Airways Twin Commando aircraft damaged its front and back wheels after landing at American Samoa's International Airport on Friday.

American Samoa's Department of Public Safety has received reports of a former police officer wanted in connection with drug crimes being seen on the US west coast.

Well-known American Samoan preacher Reverend Elder Siaosi Mageo has passed away.

Flags in American Samoa are flying at half mast today and tomorrow in honour of a cabinet member who died suddenly last month.

The United States has objected to the European Union's decision to put American Samoa and Guam on its blacklist of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions.

A petition is to be presented to the US Secretary of Defence in a bid to reinstate military airlift command flights to American Samoa.

A man has been arrested in American Samoa suspected of being involved in shooting at two police officers last week.

A call has been made in the Samoa parliament to get rid of entry permits for American Samoans wanting to visit Samoa.

American Samoa's Department of Public Safety is back to three shifts a day with the addition of more than two dozen new police officers.

The author of a poem which is studied at colleges and universities in the Pacific region, Eti Saaga, has died .

StarKist Samoa cannery, the large private employer in American Samoa, has shut down production for three weeks.

Police investigations are continuing into an incident where police were shot at while responding to a call about cherry bombs being thrown into the Tony Solaita Baseball Field.

Patients at American Samoa's only hospital are unable to get CAT scans with the only machine out of commission for more than two months.

A cabinet member of the American Samoa government Taeaoafua Dr. Meki Solomona has died aged 63.

An American Samoan film director Queen Muhammad Ali is planning to revive the use of natural medicines to counter diabetes and obesity.

The American Samoa Government is thinking about buying a small aircraft to fly between Tutuila and Manu'a.