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(SHS) — Saipan Humane Society will host a free public training on animal handling and capture on Feb. 3, from 9:30 a.m. to noon, at Casa Marianas (Gold Beach Hotel). This hands-on training is open to the public, and no prior experience is required.

(TTT) — Tåno Tåsi yan Todu is pleased to announce the 2026 Mariana Islands Conservation Conference or MICC, a free, virtual conference dedicated to advancing terrestrial and marine conservation throughout the Mariana Islands.

(Press Release) — Clerks from the NMI Supreme Court, Superior Court, and the District Court for the NMI join over 50 participants from court systems in the Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, and Palau in the Court Clerk Training sponsored by the Pacific Judicial Council this week on Jan. 28-30, …

(NMCADSV) — The Northern Marianas Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, alongside its partners, invites the community to attend the 2026 Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month or TDVAM proclamation signing ceremony on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026 at 10 a.m. in the cafeteria of Dandan Middle School…

What makes CPT Santos’s journey especially meaningful is that becoming a JROTC instructor was not something he originally planned.

(NMTech) — The Northern Marianas Technical Institute campus will reopen and resume normal operations on Monday, Feb. 2, 2026, following a recent closure.

(Commonwealth Utilities Corporation) — There will be a temporary road closure along the northbound lane on Chalan Pale Arnold in Lower Navy Hill on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026 from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

(Press Release) — The CNMI Judiciary has begun its security improvement projects in its three courthouses on Saipan, Tinian and Rota. On Jan. 12-16, 2026, consultant Joseph Duren Lopez of Weigh Anchor Consulting conducted site visits to provide short-term and long-term planning for courthouse secur…

(BECQ-DEQ) — The Bureau of Environmental and Coastal Quality’s Division of Environmental Quality invites the public to provide comments on the updated Environmental Protection Agency State Revolving Fund Project Priority List Scoring Criteria for drinking water and wastewater infrastructure project…

SUPERIOR Court Associate Judge Kenneth L. Govendo has ordered the parties in the Tinian stablecoin lawsuit to submit proposed certified questions by the end of February, tightening the timeline in a case that has been stalled since Attorney General Edward Manibusan moved last year to block the law.