Governor Announces $17.5 m Surplus
Governor Lolo Moliga shared some positive financial news at a cabinet meeting yesterday , the third one this month. Based on figures provided him by Treasurer Ueligitone Tonumaipe’a, he said ASG ...Read more
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Fono Passes 60-Days Appropriations Bill
The outcome of a conference committee between the House and Senate today on the administration’s interim appropriations bill is to approve the changes that the House made to the bill. The ...Read more
National Security Adviser Announces ‘Fast Response’ Coast Guard Cutters for AS and Guam
President Trump’s National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien has announced the US will build and deploy to American Samoa and Guam ‘fast response’ Coast Guard cutters to counter malign ...Read more
Interim Budget Bill Moves Forward in Senate
The was some progress in the Senate yesterday on the interim appropriations bill to fund ASG which is now in its third week of Fiscal Year 2021 without an approved annual budget. Governor Lolo ...Read more
No Stimulus, No Flight, but There’s Still Hope
The Tagata Tutu Faatasi Alliance of American Samoa, the community group pushing to repatriate residents of the territory who are stranded in Hawaii and the mainland have yet to get a response form ...Read more
Voters get 2 Paid Hours to Cast Ballots
In exactly two weeks voters will head to the polls to elect a Governor and Lt Governor, Delegate to Congress and members of the House of Representatives. Today, Governor Lolo Moliga sent out a ...Read more
334 Votes Cast Absentee, 199 by Stranded Voters
As of this morning 334 people have voted absentee for the offices of governor and lt governor, congressional delegate and American Samoa House of Representatives. Those who have voted by outside ...Read more
Local Resident Seeks Help from President Trump
A US Army veteran and candidate for the Tuala-uta seat in the House of Representatives, Su’a Lucia Bartley, has written to President Donald Trump requesting assistance to repatriate American ...Read more
Senate President Gaoteote Admitted at LBJ
Senate President Gaoteote Palaie Tofau was admitted to the LBJ Hospital yesterday afternoon. KHJ News received confirmation that the Senate leader was taken by ambulance to the hospital around 1 ...Read more
Fono Reconvenes Monday to Discuss FY2021 Budget
Lawmakers are being called back to session next Monday to review the Fiscal Year 2021 budget. This follows a meeting yesterday between Governor Lolo Moliga, Senate President Gaoteote Palaie Tofau ...Read more
