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NORTHERN Marianas College on Friday launched the Proa Union student center, its $30 million “flagship” building, with an official ribbon cutting ceremony that gathered NMC students, alumni, community members, and dozens of local officials.

WITH the federal shutdown suspending food stamp benefits for more than 5,500 households in the Commonwealth, the Department of Public Safety is preparing for a potential increase in domestic disturbances and community unrest.

JAWN Joyner and Luwan Angui Reyes have successfully completed the CNMI Drug Court program, earning recognition for maintaining sobriety and meeting all program requirements without any violations.

THE Department of Finance’s Division of Revenue and Taxation is closely monitoring construction activities in the CNMI, including the ongoing military buildup on Tinian, its director, Daniel Alvarez, told lawmakers during a joint meeting of the House Ways and Means and Senate Fiscal Affairs Committ…

THE NMI Democrats hosted the first Civic Engagement Series: Precincts Listening Tour on Thursday at the Saipan Southern High School cafeteria.

MEMBERS and officials of the Palauan Community Association of the CNMI gathered at Garapan Central Park on Saturday to celebrate the island nation’s 31st Independence Day.

(Press Release) — Scholars from Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Puerto Rico will unpack the historical and current impacts of accelerating U.S. military activity under a colonial legal framework.

(CHCC) — The Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation successfully maintains its Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments or CLIA certification across all three island laboratories in Saipan, Tinian, and Rota following the biennial compliance and certificat…

(MVA) — The Marianas Club, a project launched by the Marianas Visitors Authority and BEAMS Creative, Inc., which engages in business-to-business transactions that leverage the creativity, sensibility, and expertise cultivated through the operations of Japan’s select shop BEAMS, is working to help J…

(Office of the Governor) — The CNMI government intends to solicit no-cost labor assistance from the Department of War’s Innovative Readiness Training (Program through the Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133.  The assistance will include little to no-cost minor repairs to existing facilitie…