Marshall Islands News Archives

Handmade shell necklaces were in style Monday afternoon when the consul general of the Republic of the Marshall Islands opened a ceremony with music and prayer at the Boone Ritter building across the street from City Hall.

The head of the Marshall Islands government's power company warned businesses Wednesday that its generators could break down any day, forcing power rationing in the capital city.

A Two years after the Marshall Islands national election in Nov. 2007, a dispute over absentee ballots is going to trial in the High Court here in Majuro.

The Pacific Resources for Education and Learning has awarded five scholarship grants to Pacific islanders to support their pursuit of a college degree in education in School Year 2009-2010. Five scholarship recipients representing the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, the Republic of Marshall Islands, and Yap State of the ...

Sometime around 2 p.m. on Saturday the Cielo Mare, a 127-foot sport fishing yacht that has taken over three years to build, will take its first dip into the water -- that is if weather permits.

Budget cuts forced the Marshall Islands Ministry of Education to eliminate a lunch program for Majuro public schools and student attendance and academic performance is expected to drop as a result.

Two weeks ago Newsday devoted eight full pages to a devastating indictment of how Brookhaven National Laboratory dealt with the people of the Marshall Islands.

The Marshall Islands consist of two chains of coral atolls, together with more than 1,000 islets, just north of the Equator.

Two weeks ago, Thomas Maier at Newsday pinged me about a project he and the team at Newsday had just published - an ambitious multimedia investigation into the aftermath of U.S. nuclear testing in the Pacific .

KOROR a ' President Johnson Toribiong sent to the lawmakers the draft resolution to extend the treaty regarding the College of Micronesia.

Resolution of land and traditional title disputes in the Marshall Islands has ground to a halt as a key customary court has been without judges since early this year.

Retired cook Calvin Nelson says that when he came to Hawaii from Kwajalein after the United States had seized his home for a new missile range, he was told, "everything will be covered." But 20 years later, he learned that a new health program that the state government was issuing for himself and thousands of other Micronesian immigrants wouldn't ...

MAJURO a ' Explosive population growth of the 1980s in the Marshall Islands has been nearly reversed by out-migration to the United States, suggest population figures released by the governmentA1s Economic Policy, Planning and Statistics Office this week.

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Hawaii's government must continue providing lifesaving dialysis and chemotherapy treatments to Pacific island migrants suffering from kidney disease and cancer.

Dorine Lee Gendron, 81, of Wareham, passed away quietly at home after a short illness surrounded by her family.