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date: 2024-03-17, from: Pacific Island Times
By Pacific Island Times News Staff Saipan– CNMI leaders on Sunday announced plans to revise the government’s current budget to address…
https://www.pacificislandtimes.com/post/cnmi-seeks-to-address-fiscal-crisis
date: 2024-03-17, updated: 2024-03-17, from: Marianas Variety
(Marianas Writers Movement) — Our stories commemorate the past, preserve our cultural identity, and entertain our family and friends! While we have a rich memory for stories from the past, and active imaginations to create fiction, the best way to ensure these stories live on in the future is to write them down!
date: 2024-03-17, updated: 2024-03-17, from: Marianas Variety
IT remains the greatest aeronautical mystery of our time. Last week marked the ten-year anniversary of the loss of Malaysian Airlines flight 370. How can a modern, massive, technologically complex beast like a wide-body jet liner disappear? How is it possible that we have not found it yet? Let’s review the case.
date: 2024-03-17, updated: 2024-03-17, from: Marianas Variety
(NMC) — In support of funding higher education in the CNMI, IT&E has donated $2,500 cash and a brand new Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 worth $2,500 to the Northern Marianas College Foundation for its Golf Open on March 23 and 24, 2024.
date: 2024-03-17, updated: 2024-03-17, from: Marianas Variety
(Reuters) — Stephen Curry scored 31 points in his return from a three-game absence and Klay Thompson added 26 points as the visiting Golden State Warriors earned a 128-121 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday.
date: 2024-03-17, updated: 2024-03-17, from: Marianas Variety
THE CNMI Department of Labor would like to remind all employers that effective March 15, 2024, CNMI DOL will no longer be accepting job vacancy announcement posts on www.marianaslabor.net/. The marianaslabor.net website was decommissioned on March 15, 2024 so any posts or submissions made after that date will not be processed.
date: 2024-03-17, updated: 2024-03-17, from: Marianas Variety
JOHN Oliver Delos Reyes Bolis Gonzales announced his candidacy for the U.S. Congress on KKMP radio, Facebook and Zoom Sunday morning.
date: 2024-03-17, updated: 2024-03-17, from: Marianas Variety
COMMUNITY volunteer and Division of Parks and Recreation staffer Marcelino “Max” Aguon is again asking the owners of cows that roam freely in Marpi to secure the animals. The cows leave manure on the road that leads to the popular tourist sites in the area, he added.
date: 2024-03-17, updated: 2024-03-17, from: Marianas Variety
VICTOR Nash Santos and Kaithlyn Chavez, both 16 years old, are the overall winners of the 2024 Triple J Bubble Color Run 5k Run on Saturday morning.
date: 2024-03-17, updated: 2024-03-17, from: Marianas Variety
FITNESS has become an integral part of many people’s lives, not just as a means to achieve physical well-being, but also as a pathway to personal transformation.
date: 2024-03-17, updated: 2024-03-17, from: Marianas Variety
AGAPE Christian School’s hard work throughout the years finally paid off as they secured their very first title in the boys middle school division of the NMIVA-PSS Interscholastic Volleyball League SY23-24 at the Marianas High School gym on Saturday.
date: 2024-03-17, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Farmers in Waimea are one step closer to having a refurbished food processing facility after the partial demolition of the Kamuela Vacuum Cooling Plant.</p>
date: 2024-03-17, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>HONOLULU — Maui’s mayor says he is prioritizing housing, evaluating evacuation routes and hiring more firefighters as his Hawaii community recovers from the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century.</p>
date: 2024-03-17, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — As Salvatore LoGrande fought cancer and all the pain that came with it, his daughters promised to keep him in the white, pitched roof house he worked so hard to buy all those decades ago.</p>
date: 2024-03-17, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Lawmakers and boaters hope for smooth sailing at the Wailoa Small Boat Harbor in Hilo as a long-awaited dredging project inches closer toward beginning.</p>
date: 2024-03-17, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>A yearlong project to replace a small bridge in Hilo will begin Monday.</p>
date: 2024-03-17, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Garbage day may come twice a week again for Kalapana residents thanks to a new County Council proposal.</p>
date: 2024-03-17, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Voters across Russia cast ballots Saturday on the second day of an election set to formalize six more years of power for President Vladimir Putin, who faces no serious challengers after crushing political dissent over his nearly quarter-century of rule.</p>
date: 2024-03-17, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>CAIRO — Stalled talks aimed at securing a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war are expected to resume in earnest in Qatar as soon as today, according to Egyptian officials.</p>
date: 2024-03-17, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Assemblyman Anthony Rendon likes to spend his spare time away from the Capitol in Sacramento with his 4-year-old daughter back home near Los Angeles. Last weekend, he took her ice skating and to an indoor playground, then let her get a donut after she agreed to ride her scooter on the way there.</p>
date: 2024-03-17, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>PORTLAND, Ore. — A post-flight inspection revealed a missing panel on an older Boeing 737-800 that had just arrived at its destination in southern Oregon on Friday after flying from San Francisco, officials said, the latest in a series of recent incidents involving aircraft manufactured by the company.</p>
date: 2024-03-17, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>LAKEVIEW, Ohio — Residents in a swath of the central U.S. hit by deadly tornadoes were cleaning up, assessing damage and helping neighbors on Saturday. But it will be a long recovery from the storms that ripped through parts of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Arkansas.</p>
date: 2024-03-17, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Geraldine “Gerri” Ann Carreira, 77, of Hilo died Feb. 29 at Yukio Okutsu State Veterans Home. Born in Hilo, Hawaii. She was a childcare provider and member of St. Joseph Catholic Church. Visitation 8:30-9:10 a.m. Friday (March 22) at St. Joseph Catholic Church. Funeral Mass at 9:30 a.m. Burial 11:30 a.m. at East Hawaii Veterans Cemetery No. 2 Pavilion. Casual attire. Survived by son, Darren (Tina) Carreira of Temecula, Calif.; daughters, Renee (Alton) Pulgados of Keaau and Denise Carreira of Hilo; sister, June (Richard) Ha of Hilo; brother, Carl (Terry) Perreira of Hilo; brother-in-law, Dennis Carreira of Hilo; sisters-in-law, Sharon Luiz of Fort Walton Beach, Fla., and Kathleen (Paul) Goo of Honolulu; four grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren; nephews and nieces. Arrangements by Dodo Mortuary.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/03/17/obituaries/obituaries-for-march-17-9/
date: 2024-03-17, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>NEW YORK (AP) — People across the United States celebrated Irish heritage at several major St. Patrick’s Day parades Saturday, marking the holiday a day early at events that included a big anniversary in Savannah, Georgia, and honored a pioneering female business leader as grand marshal in New York.</p>
date: 2024-03-17, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>NEW YORK — It seems like a bizarre mishmash: A former Trump cabinet official is saying he wants to buy TikTok just days after leading a group that pumped $1 billion into a beaten-down bank. But it all actually fits in with the complicated career of Steven Mnuchin.</p>
date: 2024-03-17, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>On the Island of Hawaii, frequent eruptions foster a close relationship between the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory and the Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency. HVO monitors the active volcanoes and their associated hazards; HCCDA alerts and protects communities from impacts of volcanic events. This relationship, between volcano observatories and their emergency managers, was highlighted at the recent “Cities on Volcanoes” meeting in Antigua, Guatemala.</p>
date: 2024-03-17, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
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date: 2024-03-17, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>UH-Hilo’s baseball and softball teams traveled to California to play a pair of four-game series against Fresno Pacific and Concordia Irvine, respectively, on Friday and Saturday.</p>
date: 2024-03-17, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>KEA‘AU — Kohala High’s baseball and softball teams made their second trip of the week to the isle’s east side, suffering a pair of losses to Kamehameha Schools - Hawai‘i on Saturday.</p>
date: 2024-03-17, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>NEW YORK (AP) — Donovan Clingan scored 22 points and Jaylin Stewart gave No. 2 UConn an unexpected boost with three second-half 3-pointers during a decisive run as the top-seeded Huskies beat No. 10 Marquette 73-57 on Saturday night to win the Big East Tournament for the first time since rejoining the league four years ago. </p>
date: 2024-03-17, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>By CONNOR WHITT</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/03/17/sports/photos-hilo-high-judo-invitational/
date: 2024-03-17, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>In February the UH Board of Regents held its monthly meeting on the Hilo campus, and coincidentally, there were several things on the agenda regarding University of Hawaii at Hilo beyond the regional presentation I did with my colleague, Interim Chancellor Kazama of Hawaii Community College.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/03/17/opinion/irwin-community-engagement-abounds/
date: 2024-03-17, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Hawaii grapples with a daunting challenge: the urgent need for 4,000 to 5,000 affordable rental units annually over the next five years to tackle our lack of affordable housing. This acute shortage of housing drives both the houselessness and outmigration crises. The state Legislature has a pivotal opportunity to address this situation by reevaluating conveyance tax rates on the sale of multimillion dollar investment properties.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/03/17/opinion/rethinking-hawaiis-conveyance-tax/
date: 2024-03-17, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>With a one-two punch, the incumbent president made a strong case for his reelection — especially given that the alternative is a man who seeks to overturn the results of democratic elections, who’s champing at the bit to punish his political enemies and who says immigrants are vermin.</p>
date: 2024-03-17, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Even if you’ve never been to Miami, you’ve sort of already been to Miami.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/03/17/features/how-to-have-a-great-first-visit-to-miami/
date: 2024-03-17, from: Guam Daily Post
With only six players on their roster and a seventh who showed up just in time for the playoffs, the Harvest Christian Academy Eagles made it to the finals of the Guam Sports Network High School Boys Volleyball Preseason Tournament…
date: 2024-03-17, from: Guam Daily Post
On Friday evening, people young and old gathered by the waterfront to watch the fireworks light up the night sky, it was just one of the attractions of the 2024 Malesso’ Gupot CHamoru Crab Festival at the Malesso’ Sons and…
date: 2024-03-17, from: Guam Daily Post
Arthur Root Jr., a certified laser specialist, specializing in nonablative laser tattoo removal, has not presented his case to the Guam Board of Medical Examiners to allow him to perform laser tattoo removal, but board members were gravely concerned as…
date: 2024-03-17, from: Guam Daily Post
The election of officers for the Guam Board of Medical Examiners was postponed for various administrative reasons, according to Dr. Nathaniel Berg, the current chair, who said the postponement was made at the request of Zennia Pecina, Guam Health Professional…
date: 2024-03-17, from: Guam Daily Post
The Office of the Attorney General has conducted a review of the Guam Power Authority contract for procurement of temporary power, and has sent back the proposed contract for corrections and the inclusion of missing clauses to further its legal…
date: 2024-03-17, from: Guam Daily Post
A man who was leaving a store in Maite allegedly was assaulted by RK Mark Luke, according to court documents filed Saturday with the Superior Court of Guam.
date: 2024-03-17, from: Guam Daily Post
The Guam Legislature will convene a regular session on Monday to consider more than a dozen measures, including various election-related bills and a bill related to updating fines and penalties for tobacco and nicotine violations.
date: 2024-03-17, from: Guam Daily Post
A 22-year-old man is in jail accused of assaulting his parents.
date: 2024-03-17, from: Guam Daily Post
Staff from a dental clinic in Harmon came to the aid of a woman who was in fear of her boyfriend on Friday.