American Samoa

There's growing concern in American Samoa's business community over the state of the economy.

Residents of American Samoa who normally apply for their US visas at the US Embassy in Samoa will have to go to New Zealand or Fiji to get their documents over the next three months.

American Samoa's Homeland Security director, Samana Semo Ve'ave'a, has called for the community to join together to eliminate a drug problem in the territory.

Apia-based Talofa Airways has confirmed direct flights to Tonga from American Samoa and Samoa will be launched at the end of the month.

Two days of clinics for high school American football coaches will be held in American Samoa this week, featuring two well-known coaches from Washington State University.

The American Samoa director of agriculture believes there's enough local taro to withstand the impact of a ban on imports from Samoa.

The American Samoa Telecommunications Authority says from this week it will start deactivating the mobile phones of customers who have not dialed their phones for some time.

The American Samoa Government is cutting vehicle fuel vouchers for government departments by 50 percent.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says in a new study in American Samoa and the other territories, that the risk for Zika-related birth defects falls in each trimester.

The two Samoas are trying to work out an agreement to address their divergence in tsunami warning systems.

Weather forecasters and disaster management officials from the two Samoas are meeting to discuss what they have learned from the just concluded tropical cyclone season.

A former senior executive of StarKist, which owns the StarKist Samoa cannery in American Samoa, has been charged in the US with one-count of price fixing.

The American Samoa Department of Agriculture has suspended importing of all taro and taro shoots from Samoa, effective immediately.

American Samoa's member of the US Congress says she can understand the disappointment Pacific Islanders feel about the US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Change Pact.

American Samoa has been urged to prioritise protection of its precious coral reef system.

United States President Donald Trump's proposed budget for the Office of Insular Affairs would have a significant impact on American Samoa.

People in American Samoa are this week celebrating 100 years since scientists first surveyed one of the territory's coral reefs.

An economist from the United States Department of Interior says American Samoa should look at what Hawaii does if it's to maintain fiscal stability.

Tomorrow in American Samoa is Mosquito Action Day, an initiative by the Department of Health to heighten awareness of the dangers posed by mosquitoes, which carry deadly diseases.

An American Samoa policeman is expected back in court to plead to three sex offences.