Northern Marianas

The CNMI utilities company has received more than $US36 million from the US Environmental Protection Agency for 38 projects.

The Northern Marianas government is expecting a huge windfall as the company building a casino and hotel complex on Saipan is due to pay its annual licence fee.

Less than a week after health authorities warned the public to guard against mosquito bites, the Northern Marianas reported its first case of dengue fever yesterday.

Tropical depression becomes a tropical storm and is named.

In light of dengue outbreaks around the region, Northern Marianas health authorities have urged the public to take precautions against being bitten by mosquitoes and to clear areas where they breed.

The Saipan casino in the Northern Marianas is expected to open six luxury suites next month.

A law has been passed in the Northern Marianas that authorises a $US15 million loan to help with the recovery from Super Typhoon Yutu.

As much as three percent of the Northern Marianas workforce was propped up by grants and payments from the US Department of the Interior last fiscal year.

The company building a large casino complex on Sapian in the Northern Marianas has begun another major construction project on the island.

A lawmaker in the Northern Marianas says overtime pay given to cabinet members during the recovery period following Super Typhoon Yutu was illegal.

Guam's National Weather Service says category 4 or 5 typhoons are less likely to strike the Northern Marianas this season compared with 2018.

The Northern Marianas public school system has been given US$2.56 million to rebuild schools destroyed by Super Typhoon Yutu.

More than a thousand people on the Northern Marianas' main island, Saipan, are homeless in the wake of a devastating super-typhoon in October.

Tourism in the Northern Marianas is showing further signs of recovery with Japan's Skymark Airlines confirming nine more charter flights in August and September.

A temporary generator is being used to provide power for the Northern Marianas island of Rota after a $US700,000 diesel engine broke down a day after being installed.

The US Navy's plan to effectively take control of the airspace around the Northern Marianas island of Tinian is being opposed by the territory's ports authority.

More than a thousand people in the Northern Marianas have breathed a sigh of relief after President Donald Trump yesterday signed a bill allowing them to live permanently in the territory.

Claims of human trafficking and forced labour are to be heard in the Northern Marianas following a decision by the federal court.