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Daylight saving time ends Nov. 2: What to know about the time change
Daylight saving time will end on Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025, at 2 a.m. The primary purpose of daylight saving time is to better utilize natural daylight and conserve energy. Efforts to make daylight saving time permanent have not advanced in Congress....

American Samoa Power Authority to Deploy Itron’s AMI Technology
The American Samoa Power Authority (ASPA) is partnering with Itron to modernize its electricity distribution system through the deployment of an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) solution. The project includes smart electric meters, the...

Volcano Watch: The wild job of HVO’s technicians
The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory monitors volcanic activity across the Hawaiian Islands and American Samoa, helping to ensure public safety and support scientific research. Behind the scenes, the work of field technicians is critical to this...

American Samoa Power Authority to deploy Itron’s AMI solution
LIBERTY LAKE, Wash — American Samoa Power Authority (ASPA) will implement Itron, Inc.’s (NASDAQ:ITRI) Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) solution to modernize its electricity distribution network, according to a press release statement. Itron,...

American Samoa on a Cruise: The Ultimate Traveler’s Guide
American Samoa is a U.S. territory in the heart of the South Pacific, offering travelers a blend of vibrant Polynesian culture, volcanic landscapes, and warm island hospitality. For many visitors, arriving by cruise ship is the perfect way to...

Trump isn’t cutting Pell Grants, after all …
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — As an education researcher who has studied the economic returns of higher education, I know that college degrees remain cost-effective investments for most students. But college tuition has risen at roughly twice the...

Health Dept. policy change prompted by consumer complaints
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Department of Health has issued a strong and clear warning to businesses: as of now, there will no longer be a "30-day extension" granted for the sale of items that have passed their expiration dates in stores. This...

American Samoa says no to deep-sea mining. The Trump administration might do it anyway.
In early August, in the village of Utulei on the eastern shore of Tatuila, the largest of seven islands that make up American Samoa, more than two dozen local residents gathered in an auditorium. They were there to learn about a proposal to allow...

FEATURE ǀ American Samoa says no to deep-sea mining. The Trump administration might do it anyway.
A view of the harbor at Pago Pago, American Samoa. AP via Grist IN early August, in the village of Utulei on the eastern shore of Tatuila, the largest of seven islands that make up American Samoa, more than two dozen local residents gathered in an...

Please Keep the Lights On in American Samoa
Dear Editor, My name is Mauola Jedidiah Fasio. I am 10 years old, and I am from the village of Lauliituai. Even though I do not live in American Samoa right now, I visit my grandparents every year, and I have family and friends there who are very...

Yet Another Study Reveals Just How Bad Daylight Saving Time Is For Everyone’s Health
iStockphoto Audio By Carbonatix For some reason, Daylight Saving Time (DST), an initiative that was first enacted in the United States in 1918 to conserve energy during World War I, is still with us more than 100 years later. Why? No one you ask...

How the “One Big Beautiful Bill” will impact the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico’s rum Industry
On July 4, 2025, President Donald Trump (R) signed HR 1 into law, referred to as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” First introduced on May 20 by Representative Jodey Arrington (R) of Texas, the bill includes signature policies from President...

Guam, CNMI may have to pay more to ship to US
Residents from Guam and other U.S. territories may have to pay more to ship packages to the continental United States, according to at least two territorial delegates to Congress. This week, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Del....

Samoa Shipping Corporation: Vacancy – Mechanical Maintenance Engineer
Samoa Shipping Corporation: Vacancy – Mechanical Maintenance EngineerSeptember 10, 2025Share via: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn More Related posts: JOB VACANCY : FINANCE ASSISTANT EATHU CASTING AND FORGING CO., LTD CBS Security Officer – Vacancy...

Bahrain sponsors deep-sea mining firm Impossible Metals for international permit
Bahrain has sponsored deep-sea mining firm Impossible Metals' application for a mining permit with the International Seabed Authority, becoming the first Middle Eastern country to support the fledgling industry as part of an economic...

Deep sea mining on agenda of Scientific & Statistical Committee
From sharks to deep-sea mining to catch limits, the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council’s Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) will take on some of the Pacific’s most pressing ocean issues this week Sept. 9-11, 2025, in...

The Pacific’s united front on climate action is splintering over deep-sea mining
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In recent years, Pacific island nations have earned global credibility as champions of climate action. Pacific leaders view sea level rise as an existential threat. But this united front is now under strain as some...

Am Samoa says NO to deep-sea mining. Trump admin might do it anyway
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In early August, more than two dozen local residents gathered in Lee auditorium to learn about a proposal to allow deep-sea mining across more than 18 million acres of surrounding waters in the Pacific Ocean. President...

Charges filed after tensions go up in land dispute
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On July 14, 2025, a woman called the Fagatogo Police Station (FPS) claiming that she and her son had been threatened and assaulted by members of the Fruean family, in a land dispute incident. Two men were eventually...

Governor Stresses Island Needs at IGIA, Congresswoman Raises Deep Sea Mining
Governor Pulaali’i Nikolao Pula at the second meeting this year of the Inter Agency Group on Insular Areas, stressed island needs while Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata planned to bring up local opposition to deep-sea mineral mining. KHJ News...