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Ninety students crossed the stage on June 3 as members of the Napu Riders Class of 2026, marking the end of middle school and the beginning of a new chapter under the theme, “Rooted as Riders, Rising with the Tide.”

THE Commonwealth Utilities Corporation ended fiscal year 2024 with stronger overall finances, a growing net position and an unmodified, or “clean,” audit opinion. However, auditors again flagged weaknesses in procurement controls, marking the third consecutive year the utility failed to…

LIEUTENANT Gov. Dennis James Camacho Mendiola is now facing a second active criminal case after the Office of the Attorney General filed an eight-count information accusing him of theft, misconduct in public office, and misuse of public funds tied to the alleged unlawful use of rental vehicles duri…

TINIAN residents are temporarily paying no electricity charges beyond a basic customer fee because the U.S. military and the Federal Emergency Management Agency are covering both generation and fuel costs, Commonwealth Utilities Corporation Executive Director Kevin Watson said in a June 5 public up…

MARIANAS Visitors Authority Acting Managing Director Judy Torres on Monday asked the bicameral conference committee tasked with drafting a unified version of the tobacco settlement fund spending measure to maintain the full appropriation “for thousands of families, workers and small business owners…

THE bicameral conference committee tasked with drafting a compromise version of the Super Typhoon Sinlaku emergency funding bills agreed Monday to retain the Senate version that the House rejected last month.