The Trump administration is taking a step toward potentially allowing companies to trawl for minerals under the ocean floor ...

The Trump administration says it will consider selling leases to extract minerals from the seabed off the South Pacific island of American Samoa ...

Palmer posted on X, formerly Twitter, that “Washington D.C. is long overdue for a president who will be an advocate for American Samoa.” The upset will not derail Biden's path to the ...

Looking at a map, it’s easy to understand why the National Park of American Samoa gets relatively few visitors, but seeing images, it no longer makes sense. How could this breathtaking place ...

Apr. 14—In a letter to the U.S. Office of National Marine Sanctuaries in September, American Samoa's Gov. Lemanu Mauga wrote that "fishing prohibitions not only weaken U.S. fisheries but also ...

American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, within Polynesia, consisting of five volcanic islands and two coral atolls. Its capital is ...

American Samoa currently has no Coast Guard planes or vessels permanently based in the territory. Fishing vessels sit moored next to the StarKist Samoa tuna cannery in Pago Pago, American Samoa.