The U.S. Interior Department said on Thursday it was publishing a request for information and interest to explore the potential for seabed mineral leasing offshore American Samoa.

Congressman Faleomavaega Eni Hunkin, American Samoa’s longest serving delegate to the U.S House of Representatives, died Feb. 22 at his home in Provo, Utah, according to a statement released by ...

“American Samoa has been U.S. soil, U.S. jurisdiction, for 125 years. According to the supreme law of the land, that’s my birthright.” ...

A criminal case in Alaska involving nearly a dozen people born in American Samoa is highlighting concerns about birthright citizenship and voting by people who are not U.S. citizens, issues that have ...

The Trump administration is taking a step toward potentially allowing companies to trawl for minerals under the ocean floor off the coast of American Samoa. The Interior Department announced late ...

American Samoa votes for a representative for Congress every two years. The representative participates in House functions, including voting on committess, but cannot vote on the floor.

In 2016, the American Samoa Renewable Energy Committee (ASREC) set a goal to meet 100% of American Samoa’s energy from renewable energy resources by 2040, primarily with solar energy.

More information: Clara E. Yoon et al, Remote Single-Station Seismic Monitoring of the July–October 2022 Earthquake Swarm at Ta'ū Volcano, American Samoa, The Seismic Record (2025).

An American territory since 1900, Samoa was introduced to football after a wave of investment in the islands in the 1960s. Since 1971, more than 40 players born on the islands have played in the ...

Noah Sewell spent the first nine years of his life in the small village of Malaeimi on the island of American Samoa with his parents, three brothers and one sister. When he was growing up on the ...

Born in Malaeimi, American Samoa, a young Sewell moved to Utah with his family and prepped at Desert Hills in St. George, where he grew into a 6-foot-4 All-American two-way lineman by the U.S ...