Northern Marianas

A bill providing permanent status for more than 1000 people, living in the CNMI under humanitarian parole, passed the US Senate last week.

Lawmakers in the Northern Marianas say the government has to be more transparent as the territory continues to reel from a financial crisis due to dwindling revenue.

Critical health services in American Samoa have recommenced following their suspension last month due to a lack of funding.

The Northern Marianas currently has no capability to perform autopsies as the islands and neighbouring Guam have no forensic pathologist.

Still recovering from the wrath of last year's Super Typhoon Yutu, the Northern Marianas has been warned to brace itself for more this cyclone season.

A Russian businessman arrested in the Northern Marianas at the end of last year has pleaded guilty to acquiring US defence articles without a licence.

Democrats in the US House of Representatives are expected to pass a $US19 billion aid package for communities, like the Northern Marianas, hit by natural disasters in 2018 and 2019.

Tinian has experienced a sharp increase in flu-like illnesses and the Commonwealth Health Care Corporation is advising the public to get vaccinated.

The US House of Representatives has passed legislation giving permanent status to more than a thousand people in the Northern Marianas.

The utilities agency in the Northern Marianas is still waiting for the Federal Emergency Management Office to reimburse the $US8 million it incurred from recovery efforts following last year's…

A bill that would have provided disaster relief funding for the Northern Marianas and more than a dozen US states has been blocked by a Republican lawmaker.

A school in the Northern Marianas which was destroyed by Super Typhoon Yutu is to be rebuilt on the same vulnerable site instead of being purpose built at a new location.

The Pacific Games Council is confident the 2021 Mini Games will now remain in the Northern Marianas, after the Governor had a change of heart.

The Northern Marianas Public School System admits that it's facilities are not ready for the upcoming typhoon season with buildings still not fully rebuilt after last October's Super Typhoon Yutu.

The Northern Marianas Nutrition Assistance Program said families participating in the program have increased 9.4 percent over the past two years.

The Northern Marianas government has agreed to host the 2021 Pacific Mini Games, provided the Games Council helps with funding the scaled back event.

The Public School System in the Northern Marianas says it has received $US1 million in disaster-response money from the Office of Insular Affairs in preparation for the upcoming school year.

The US federal agency that provides health coverage to low-income people in the Northern Marianas says it has exhausted all its federal and local funding.

Four public schools on Saipan are still providing double sessions more than six months after Super Typhoon Yutu devastated the island and neighboring Tinian.

CNMI residents are being warned that severe to exceptional drought is expected to continue through May and are urged to conserve water.