Northern Marianas

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.

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.