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

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 ...

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

President Biden overwhelmingly won the Democratic contests on Super Tuesday, with one notable exception — American Samoa. The American territory, an island located in the South Pacific Ocean ...

After nearly a year of shutting down to flights due to the pandemic, American Samoa is beginning to repatriate its residents on flights back home under a strict quarantine protocol. NewsHour ...

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 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.