American Samoa News

Bay Farm Elementary School's Media Center buzzed with activity. A group of fourth-grade girls moved quickly from piles of books stacked on the floor to boxes labeled, "toddler," "fiction" and "nonfiction." Three boys stood at a round table trimming slogans printed on paper that read, "get hooked on a book" and "may reading be with you." Outside the ...

Pacific Symposium for Science and Sustainability second place finisher Faa aloloa i Tea o , a Tafuna High School junior, her mentor Dr.

A new federal law now in affect requires ballots for active military personnel be mailed out 45-days prior to election of federal offices.

A federal agency is surveying the waters around American Samoa to determine the extent of coral reef damaged by man-made debris left by the Sept.

High resolution Submerged marine debris off Amanave Village in southwestern Tutuila.

The tsunami devastation on Samoa's southern Upolu coastline. Photo: NZ Defence Force.

A delegation from the Philippine Consulate General in Honolulu, led by Consul General Leoncio Cardenas, made a courtesy call on American Samoa Gov.

Lotovale Sila of Masausia 'new vetiver grass establishing on his steep slopes where he grows his taro.

One facility in American Samoa reported a total of 5.66 pounds of toxic chemicals released into the air in 2008, according to new data released today by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Wrestler Edward Fatu, better known as the hulking, tattooed WWE superstar "Umaga," died Friday of a heart attack in a Houston, Texas, hospital, a family friend said.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has overturned a Honolulu federal judge ruling that two victims in a sexual slavery case that occurred in American Samoa should be reimbursed based on how many sex acts they were forced to perform.

A Hawaii federal judge has been overturned by an appeals court after ruling that two victims in a sexual slavery case should be reimbursed based on how many sex acts they were forced to perform.

Kyle Koyanagi gears up to do a reconnaissance swim around the bay in front of the village of Leone.

Ten weeks ago, an earthquake and tsunami in the Samoan Islands mobilized volunteers in Fresno to gather and send relief supplies.

Mariana Faiai of Pago Pago, American Samoa, graduate, wants to walk across the stage at Fort Hays State University's commencement in May just like any other student.

The tsunami waves which struck Samoa and American Samoa, killing more than 200 people including a British toddler, were more than four storeys high when they slammed into the coastline, scientists have revealed.

When a deadly earthquake and tsunami struck the South Pacific in September, much of the attention in Hawai'i was on American Samoa, a United States territory, even though the death toll and destruction was greater in independent Samoa.

Two South Pacific nations, American Samoa and Kiribati, have been crowned the fattest countries in the world -and New Zealanders have also hit the fat top ten.

Monday, Nov. 30, is the final day for American Samoa residents to apply for disaster assistance and return a completed U.S. Small Business Administration disaster loan application for damages or losses caused by the Sept.

For the first 51 years of American Samoa's 109 year history as a possession of the United States, the islands were under the administration of the U.S. Department of the Navy.