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date: 2024-11-19, updated: 2024-11-19, from: Marianas Variety
MARIANAS Variety editor Zaldy Dandan’s fourth book, “If He Isn’t Insane Then He Should Be: Stories & Poems from Saipan,” is available at the Joeten Shopping Center in Susupe.
date: 2024-11-19, updated: 2024-11-19, from: Marianas Variety
THE NMC-Cooperative Research Extension and Education Services and DLNR-Division of Agriculture are conducting a biochar mini-workshop at the Kagman Ma’a’fala Breadfruit Plantation on Saturday, Nov. 23 from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., according to Northern Marianas College.
date: 2024-11-19, updated: 2024-11-19, from: Marianas Variety
SUPERIOR Court Associate Judge Kenneth L. Govendo has rescheduled the bench trial of Shayne Villanueva for Jan. 27, 2025 at 9 a.m.
date: 2024-11-19, updated: 2024-11-19, from: Marianas Variety
ATTORNEY Vincent DLG Torres, who previously owed $1,175,096.64 in taxes to the CNMI government, has paid it off, according to the Department of Finance’s Division of Revenue and Taxation.
date: 2024-11-19, updated: 2024-11-19, from: Marianas Variety
ATKINS Kroll Saipan, an Inchcape Company, is proud to support the Mariana Skate Surf League with a $1,000 donation through its Community Matters Program. This contribution reflects Atkins Kroll’s commitment to promoting healthy, active lifestyles and fostering community wellbeing in Saipan.
date: 2024-11-19, updated: 2024-11-19, from: Marianas Variety
THE Senate and the House of Representatives, in a joint session on Tuesday, unanimously approved the lease agreement between the Department of Public Lands and Suwaso Corp. for the 581,585 square meters of public land occupied by Coral Ocean Resort in Koblerville.
date: 2024-11-19, updated: 2024-11-19, from: Marianas Variety
A select group from Japan’s Saipan Kyushoku Project visited Saipan recently to work with the Public School System on a project that encourages healthy living, with a primary focus on food education and behavioral practices. On Oct. 21-22, members of the Saipan Kyushoku Project, which is part of the University Network for Global Leadership Development, conducted an on-site visit, observation, and interviews with several public schools. The visiting group consisted of project manager Shinya Murata, supervisor Keiji Hata, Ehime University student and team leader Haruna Kyogoku, Ehime University student and sub-leader Arisa Yatsuzuka, Ehime University student Kasuke Matsuoka, and Okayama University of Science student Miyu Kitagawa. On Oct. 22, they met with Commissioner of Education Dr. Lawrence F. Camacho to discuss and present their findings. Also in photo are PSS Child Nutrition Program Nutritionist Erin Camacho and Dandan Middle School Vice Principal Reo Arriola.
date: 2024-11-19, updated: 2024-11-19, from: Marianas Variety
THE Bureau of Environmental and Coastal Quality analyzes water samples collected from Saipan’s west coast recreational beaches and storm drainages every week.
date: 2024-11-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>President-elect Donald Trump confirmed Monday that he intended to declare a national emergency and use the U.S. military in some form to assist in his plans for mass deportations of immigrants who do not have legal residency status.</p>
date: 2024-11-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Nearly 11 years of coral growth in West Hawaii waters was successfully relocated to reefs and coral nurseries last week.</p>
date: 2024-11-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The Hawaii County Council has reorganized its leadership for the upcoming 2024-2026 term.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/11/19/hawaii-news/inaba-onishi-tapped-to-lead-council/
date: 2024-11-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>In 2017, when she was still a Democratic member of Congress, Tulsi Gabbard traveled to Syria and met the country’s authoritarian president, Bashar Assad. She also accused the United States of supporting terrorists there.</p>
date: 2024-11-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — SpaceX’s new Starship rocket far exceeds the projected maximum noise levels, generating a sonic boom so powerful it risks property damage in the densely populated residential community near its South Texas launch site, new data suggests.</p>
date: 2024-11-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine signaled a new sense of urgency Monday following a decision by the Biden administration to allow long-range strikes inside Russia using U.S.-provided missiles, with Ukrainian politicians suggesting that the first launches would come soon and without warning.</p>
date: 2024-11-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults are overweight or obese, according to a sweeping new study. The findings have wide-reaching implications for the nation’s health and medical costs as it faces a growing burden of weight-related diseases.</p>
date: 2024-11-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>President Joe Biden urged Congress on Monday to provide nearly $100 billion in “urgently needed” aid for communities ravaged by hurricanes and other disasters in recent months, saying funding for some critical programs has either run out or is nearly exhausted.</p>
date: 2024-11-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Barnard’s Star is a dim, reddish ball of gas just six light-years away from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus. It is the nearest stand-alone star to our sun, but with only one-fifth the mass, it is so dim that no one knew it was there until 1916, when astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard recorded its image on a photographic plate.</p>
date: 2024-11-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Hawaiian Airlines today is introducing a new locals-only program that could reshape the competitive neighbor-­island landscape much in the way that Southwest Airlines’ bodacious long-running $39 one-way fares did after the carrier entered Hawaii’s interisland market.</p>
date: 2024-11-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Winners of the 2024 KTA Super Stores Recipe Contest were announced in professional, amateur, culinary students and keiki division. Kona coffee was the inspiration to create unforgettable dishes and desserts, showcasing the versatility and unique flavor of Hawaii’s most iconic coffee.</p>
date: 2024-11-19, from: Island Times
By: Eustoria Marie Borja Koror, Palau – The annual blue water spawning events of Moorish Idols (MI) and Orange spine Surgeonfish (OSS) in Palau, along with the high-stakes predator-prey interactions between these fish and grey reef sharks, was highlighted in the BBC series Asia, airing on November 3, 2024 The fascinating research behind these spawning […]
The post Palau’s spawning events of Moorish Idols and Orange Spine Surgeonfish featured in BBC’s New Series appeared first on Island Times.
date: 2024-11-19, from: Island Times
KOROR (KYODO NEWS) —Palau’s re-elected President Surangel Whipps said on Tuesday he may ask the United States for a Patriot missile defence system, citing a recent Chinese missile test as a “direct threat” to the Pacific island nation. Under the Compact of Free Association, an agreement allowing U.S funding and military access to Palau, Whipps, […]
The post Whipps Labels China ICBM Test a ‘Direct Threat,’ Urges U.S. for Patriot Defense appeared first on Island Times.
https://islandtimes.org/whipps-labels-china-icbm-test-a-direct-threat-urges-u-s-for-patriot-defense/
date: 2024-11-19, from: Island Times
KOROR, Palau — The Ministry of Finance will host its annual symposium on Thursday, Nov. 21, at the Ngarachamayong Cultural Center under the theme From Recovery to Growth: Unlocking Palau’s Prosperity. The event will spotlight initiatives aimed at transitioning Palau from economic recovery to sustained growth. Attendees can participate in interactive discussions, activities, and knowledge-sharing […]
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https://islandtimes.org/ministry-of-finance-to-host-economic-growth-symposium/
date: 2024-11-19, from: Island Times
By: Eustoria Marie Borja The Bureau of Public Safety is still investigating the suspected homicide of 51-year-old Tellames Johanes, who was found dead at the Koror State Animal Center on October 30. Director Curtis Elobt confirmed on November 18 that the autopsy, a crucial next step in the investigation, has yet to be conducted. “Dr. […]
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https://islandtimes.org/investigation-continues-in-malakal-homicide-case/
date: 2024-11-19, from: Island Times
BY: Eustoria Marie Borja SAIPAN—Two critical letters from community organizations have called for immediate action from Governor Arnold I. Palacios, highlighting urgent issues related to utility rates and healthcare financing in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). Health System in Crisis In a letter dated November 7, 2024, Kånnai Komunidat – Payúúr Toulap, […]
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date: 2024-11-19, from: Island Times
By: Samantha Iyar BRISBANE, Australia — A workshop on prebunking disinformation brought together participants from across the Pacific on November 12, 2024, to tackle the rising tide of misinformation. Titled “Prebunking Disinformation: Next Generation Workshop,” the session was part of the two-day Disinfo Pacific Conference held in Brisbane. The workshop emphasized equipping attendees, especially younger […]
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https://islandtimes.org/youth-empowered-in-fight-against-disinformation-at-brisbane-workshop/
date: 2024-11-19, from: Island Times
[13 November 2024; Koror, Palau] The Republic of Palau’s Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (BCBP) received an advanced server to host the recently implemented ASYCUDA, a state-of-the-art customs management software, streamlining customs and border processes. The arrival of the upgraded server marks a significant step in enhancing Palau’s customs infrastructure. The Director of the […]
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https://islandtimes.org/new-server-for-palau-customs-to-optimize-operations/
date: 2024-11-19, from: Island Times
On Saturday, November 9, the Palau International Coral Reef Center (PICRC) hosted the Ocean Stories Film Festival, in partnership with our sister sanctuary, the National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa (NMSAS). The event brought together over 200 attendees for a night of exploration, learning, and celebration for the 9th anniversary of the Palau National Marine […]
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https://islandtimes.org/picrc-hosts-the-ocean-stories-film-festival-in-collaboration-with-the-nmsas/
date: 2024-11-19, from: Island Times
Lashon ha-ra is a Jewish term that refers to speech that is negative or harmful about a person, even if it is true. It can damage a person emotionally or financially, or lower their standing in the eyes of others. The term literally translates to “the evil tongue”. Some sources indicate that lashon ha-ra is […]
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https://islandtimes.org/lashon-ha-ra/
date: 2024-11-19, from: Island Times
SUVA/PORT VILA (PMN) — While Vanuatu and Fiji’s first-ever foreign policy documents reveal their non-aligned positions, the papers give both countries credibility amid competition by major geopolitical powers, such as China and the United States, for influence in the Pacific region. Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka launched his government’s Foreign Policy White Paper and said […]
The post Pacific leaders outline foreign policy priorities amid geopolitical and climate crises appeared first on Island Times.
date: 2024-11-19, from: Island Times
COP29 Loss and Damage update BAKU (SPREP) — The operationalization of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) was regarded as one of the biggest achievements of COP28 in Dubai in 2023. Only a year after it was first proposed at COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, Governments pledged almost USD $702 million […]
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date: 2024-11-19, from: Island Times
“Unfair to target Media for doing their job” HONIARA (INDEPTH SOLOMONS) —Media Association of Solomon Islands (MASI) President Ofani Eremae defended the country’s journalists, stating that they are fulfilling their responsibility by reporting on issues of public interest and holding those in power accountable, in response to Finance Minister Manasseh Sogavare’s accusations. He said the […]
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https://islandtimes.org/masi-defends-journalists/
date: 2024-11-19, from: Island Times
WASHINGTON/TAIPEI (REUTER) — Taiwan President Lai Ching-te is planning to stop in Hawaii and maybe Guam on a visit to Taipei’s diplomatic allies in the Pacific in the coming weeks, sources told Reuters, a sensitive trip coming shortly after the U.S election. Lai, who won election in January, has yet to travel overseas since taking […]
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date: 2024-11-19, from: Island Times
By Riley Stuart in Washington DC In short: (ABC-Australia) President Joe Biden has permitted Ukraine to use long-range missiles supplied by the US to strike targets inside Russian territory, according to multiple US media reports. It’s a major policy change from the White House, which had previously insisted US weapons could only be used against Russia’s forces […]
The post Joe Biden allows Ukraine to use long-range US-supplied ATACMS missiles on targets in Russia, prompting threat of world war appeared first on Island Times.
date: 2024-11-19, from: University of Hawaiʻi News
Teani Arakawa is named Player of the Year, while Savina Zamborini takes Newcomer of the Year honors, and five athletes earn All-PacWest Second Team selections, with one on the Third Team.
The post Hilo women’s soccer lands 8 All-PacWest honors first appeared on University of Hawaiʻi System News.
https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2024/11/18/hilo-womens-soccer-8-all-pacwest/
date: 2024-11-19, from: University of Hawaiʻi News
Koki Hamada, Brian Trujillo and Felix Drizinsky garnered conference regular season honors as the Vulcans prepare for the inaugural PacWest tournament.
The post 3 Vulcan men’s soccer players earn All-PacWest spots first appeared on University of Hawaiʻi System News.
https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2024/11/18/3-vulcan-mens-soccer-earn-pacwest/
date: 2024-11-19, from: University of the South Pacific (Fiji)
The University of the South Pacific (USP) has achieved global recognition for its excellence in…
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date: 2024-11-19, from: University of Hawaiʻi News
The focus groups will be held November 21–26.
The post Community input sought for Red Hill Registry first appeared on University of Hawaiʻi System News.
https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2024/11/18/community-input-red-hill-registry/
date: 2024-11-18, from: University of Hawaiʻi News
The program will expand nationwide, offering a concierge platform and specialized AI resources.
The post $500K to broaden AI program for equitable healthcare access first appeared on University of Hawaiʻi System News.
https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2024/11/18/ai-for-equitable-healthcare-access/
date: 2024-11-18, from: University of Hawaiʻi News
The new pre-engineering pathway program allows students to begin their engineering studies at UH Hilo before transferring to UH Mānoa to complete their degrees.
The post Hilo native returns home to build statewide engineering pipeline first appeared on University of Hawaiʻi System News.
https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2024/11/18/trevor-shimokusu-engineer/
date: 2024-11-18, from: HIKI NŌ ON PBS HAWAIʻI
In this episode of HIKI NŌ on PBS Hawai‘i, learn about the different kinds of production studios at schools on Oʻahu and Kauaʻi and revisit some memorable stories from our archives. We visit Honowai Elementary School’s new recording studio at their campus on Oʻahu and discover how far their program has come. Waiʻanae High School […]
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https://www.pbshawaii.org/celebrating-student-production-studios/
date: 2024-11-18, from: Hawai’i Pacific Review (HPU Literary Magazine)
by Connor Donovan We don’t speak of it anymore: the hilltop bonfires holding natural light, bottlenecking the cans & burning them green. The cathedral clock tower above us like a jaundiced eye. Being passed an apple packed with burnt nubs … Continue reading
https://hawaiipacificreview.org/2024/11/18/self-portrait-with-wellbutrin-pig-roast/
date: 2024-11-18, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Marianas Variety
BARRIGADA, Guam (ESGR) — The Guam-CNMI Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve State Committee, a Department of Defense program, proudly honored employers who go above and beyond in supporting their National Guard and Reserve employees. The 16th Annual Employer Awards Ceremony took place on Aug. 29, 2024, at the Hyatt Regency Guam, recognizing the unwavering dedication and patriotism of 22 employers across Guam and the CNMI who were nominated for the prestigious 2024 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award.
date: 2024-11-18, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Marianas Variety
KYIV (Reuters) — The U.S. decision to authorize long-range Ukrainian strikes could help Kyiv defend the foothold in Russia’s Kursk region that it seized as leverage in any war talks, but may come too late to change the course of the war, analysts said.
date: 2024-11-18, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Marianas Variety
(MVA) — Casting a wider net to attract travel investors and visitors to The Marianas, the Marianas Visitors Authority talked travel trade and CNMI tax structure at World Travel Market on Nov. 5-7, 2024, in London.
date: 2024-11-18, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Marianas Variety
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President-elect Donald Trump has said he might install his picks for top administration posts without first winning approval in the U.S. Senate. This would erode the power of Congress and remove a significant check on his authority as president.
date: 2024-11-18, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Marianas Variety
FOLLOWING a buy-walk operation by the Department of Public Safety-Drug Enforcement Task Force, Nick Cena Patulot and Minyan Jiang were separately arrested for selling methamphetamine or “ice.”
date: 2024-11-18, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Marianas Variety
OMAR Nawaz, who is believed to be homeless, was arrested by the police for pulling his pants down and showing his privates to a 6-year-old girl at a restaurant in Garapan on Friday.
date: 2024-11-18, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Marianas Variety
GOVERNOR Arnold I. Palacios on Thursday issued Executive Order 2025-001 designating coral reefs as the CNMI’s “critical natural infrastructure.”
date: 2024-11-18, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Marianas Variety
LAYING anti-skid materials, also known as high-friction surfacing, the Department of Public Works, GPPC Inc. and Pacific Engineering Group & Services began applying the final layer on Beach Road on Monday.
date: 2024-11-18, from: Pacific Island Times
The first tranche of U.S. Marines stationed in Okinawa is anticipated to arrive on Guam in the next few weeks, commencing the troop realignm
https://www.pacificislandtimes.com/post/small-detachment-of-marines-expected-to-arrive-on-guam-soon
date: 2024-11-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — Somehow disruption doesn’t begin to cover it. Upheaval might be closer. Revolution maybe. In less than two weeks since being elected again, Donald Trump has embarked on a new campaign to shatter the institutions of Washington as no incoming president has in his lifetime.</p>
date: 2024-11-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>SAN FRANCISCO — After Donald Trump won the election this month, his supporters gravitated to a panoply of online destinations to celebrate.</p>
date: 2024-11-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The ashes of last summer’s devastating fire in Lahaina on Maui, which killed 102 people and destroyed the town, were still smoldering when talk turned to how fraught the rebuilding process would be.</p>
date: 2024-11-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>One person has died and 39 people have become ill in an E. coli outbreak linked to organic carrots, federal regulators said Sunday.</p>
date: 2024-11-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>East Hawaii residents are invited to attend three upcoming Coffee With a Cop events in Papa‘aloa, Hilo, and Volcano, to get to know their district police officers.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/11/18/hawaii-news/have-coffee-with-a-cop-in-east-hawaii/
date: 2024-11-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>BERKELEY, Calif. — Berkeley, California, long associated with the counterculture of the 1960s, has a reputation for erring on the side of compassion when it comes to addressing drug use and homelessness. The city is such a liberal outlier that Vice President Kamala Harris downplayed her origins there as she tried to appeal to moderate American voters this year.</p>
date: 2024-11-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>New York state issued the first voluntary evacuation for residents affected by the Jennings Creek wildfire Saturday night after gusty winds blew the flames northeast, breaching a line firefighters had put in place to contain the blaze.</p>
date: 2024-11-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>KYIV, Ukraine — Russia renewed its campaign to destroy Ukraine’s battered power grid Sunday, targeting facilities across the country with missiles and long-range drones in one of the largest and most complex bombardments of the war, Ukrainian officials said.</p>
date: 2024-11-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Actress Betty White, who is known to generations of viewers for her memorable characters in television shows such as “The Golden Girls” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” will be getting her own postage stamp.</p>
date: 2024-11-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>A wave of offensive text messages and emails has gone out to Hispanic and LGBTQ+ people in recent days, according to the FBI, coming on the heels of a barrage of racist texts that were sent to Black people in the wake of the election.</p>
date: 2024-11-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The quest for fusion energy — the clean, potentially limitless source that could end mankind’s power woes — began as an answer to an old question, one we’ve been asking since we first raised our heads toward the sky.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/11/18/features/the-quest-to-build-a-star-on-earth/
date: 2024-11-18, from: Pacific Island Times
The Consolidated Commission on Utilities is inclined to explore the nuclear energy option for Guam to supplement the island’s renewable mix,
https://www.pacificislandtimes.com/post/ccu-commissioner-recommends-nuclear-energy-for-guam
date: 2024-11-17, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Marianas Variety
500 Sails celebrated its first decade as a nonprofit organization with a fundraising gala on Friday, Nov. 15 at Crowne Plaza Resort.
date: 2024-11-17, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Marianas Variety
ALL four contestants in the Voice of the Marianas Foundation’s Harmony in the Community singing contest brought home $100 each after winning the competition at Kagman Community Center on Saturday.
date: 2024-11-17, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Marianas Variety
THE offices of outgoing U.S. Congressman Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan on Saipan, Tinian and Rota will remain open to the public through Dec. 13, 2024.
date: 2024-11-17, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Marianas Variety
SUPERIOR Court Presiding Judge Roberto C. Naraja on Friday, Nov. 15, recused himself from Shayne Villanueva’s contempt of Legislature case.
date: 2024-11-17, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Marianas Variety
(DNLR) — The CNMI Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Animal Health, is enacting immediate measures to protect local poultry and wildlife from the risk of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza or HPAI, following its recent detection in Hawaii. As HPAI can spread rapidly through migratory birds and the movement of poultry, these proactive steps aim to prevent the virus from reaching our shores.
date: 2024-11-17, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Marianas Variety
FAHA Digital Media is officially soliciting proposals in the form of regrant applications by CNMI-based/resident storytellers to conceptualize, develop, create, produce and film three-piece film series (each film shall be at least three minutes and up to five minutes long) or one short film (up to 15 minutes long) that showcase the unique life, culture, history, language, and/or nature of the Northern Marianas.
date: 2024-11-17, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Marianas Variety
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Office of the American Samoa Congressional Delegate) — U.S. Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming the announcement that President-elect Trump will nominate former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who was born in American Samoa and represented Hawaii in Congress, to be director of national intelligence, a position in the cabinet of the President of the United States.
date: 2024-11-17, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Marianas Variety
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of Tulsi Gabbard as U.S. intelligence chief has sent shockwaves through the national security establishment, adding to concerns that the sprawling intelligence community will become increasingly politicized.
date: 2024-11-17, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Marianas Variety
LAOLAO Bay Golf & Resort features some of the most superb views of the Pacific Ocean on Saipan. It’s no exaggeration to say it is a golfer’s paradise.
date: 2024-11-17, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Marianas Variety
THE former Hyatt Regency Saipan in Garapan will reopen as Marianas Beach Resort on Monday, Nov. 25, according to MB Capital LLC general manager Gloria Cavanagh.
date: 2024-11-17, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — Locked out of power next year, Democrats are hatching plans to oppose President-elect Donald Trump that look nothing like the liberal “resistance” of 2017.</p>
date: 2024-11-17, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Work to restore the lava-covered Highway 137 remains on schedule, despite a minor snag.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/11/17/hawaii-news/county-provides-update-on-highway-137/
date: 2024-11-17, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Gov. Josh Green has “severe reservations” and is strongly criticizing President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.</p>
date: 2024-11-17, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>A man and woman, both from Puna, face criminal charges after allegedly leaving a dog alone inside a car in a Kona parking lot earlier this month.</p>
date: 2024-11-17, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to cut wasteful government spending, fire what he considers rogue bureaucrats and overhaul federal agencies once he is back in power.</p>
date: 2024-11-17, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>I love exploring the world of ancient Rome, with its grand architecture, fascinating culture, and stories of larger-than-life leaders. But since many of the 2,000-year-old empire’s landmarks are reduced to ruins, it can be hard to make sense of the stones and rubble left behind.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/11/17/features/pompeii-italys-frozen-in-time-roman-city/
date: 2024-11-17, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Native Hawaiian oral traditions record a rich history of the changing volcanic landscape in Hawai‘i. Interweaving cultural knowledge with scientific disciplines can provide a more complete understanding of past events, including the largest known lava flow eruption of Kilauea. </p>
date: 2024-11-17, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>To his detractors, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s Cabinet looks like a rogues’ gallery of people with dubious credentials and questionable judgment.</p>
date: 2024-11-17, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>TEL AVIV, Israel — The Israeli military pressed on Saturday with its dayslong bombing campaign targeting an area near Beirut dominated by Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite militia, while in the country’s south, Israeli airstrikes killed two paramedics, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.</p>
date: 2024-11-17, from: Pacific Island Times
Did you know that betel nut chewing was a social activity that played an impor tant part in the daily lives of the early Micronesians?…
https://www.pacificislandtimes.com/post/the-social-aspect-of-betel-chewing-in-micronesia
date: 2024-11-17, from: Pacific Island Times
While most Guam wartime stories are told from the point of view of CHamoru survivors and American marines, Peter R. Onedera flips the narrat