American Samoa

American Samoa has launched a new anti-litter law.

American Samoa's largest private employer the StarKist Samoa cannery is shutting down for one week for planned maintenance work.

American Samoa's Treasurer, Ueligitone Tonumaipeam, has given people who owe income tax a break.

There are reports of price gouging in American Samoa with the price of a packet of cigarettes jumping to $US15 in recent weeks.

A guard at the American Samoa Juvenile Detention Center is facing 10 charges of rape.

The American Samoa governor's office has been notified it faces a lawsuit if it goes ahead with plans to cut workers' hours.

An unsuccessful candidate in last year's election for the America Samoa House of Representatives has pleaded with the governor not to cut the working hours of government employees who are minimum wage…

Employees of the American Samoa Legislature are to join other public servants in working a seven-hour day, instead of eight, to save the government money.

A judge in American Samoa has declined to withdraw from presiding over a hearing for one of the four Public Safety officers at the Juvenile Detention Centre.

It's been revealed that at least one of the four guards from the American Samoa Juvenile Detention Centre arrested last week is facing drugs charges.

American Samoa's Attorney General says victim blaming in cases of domestic and sexual abuse in the territory is encouraged by the misuse of the cultural concept of "ava fatafata" or respect.

American Samoa's governor, Lolo Matalasi Moliga, plans to establish a commission to address the territory's drug problem, which some lawmakers say is spreading like cancer through the school system.

Government employees in American Samoa are being forced to work reduced hours from Monday because of an expected shortfall in federal funding.

Reports from Tonga say the United States government is still considering the extradition of the yachtie Dean Jay Fletcher who's been charged with murdering his wife in Tonga.

Principals of all public high schools on American Samoa's main island of Tutuila say they have a drug problem in their schools.