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(DPS) — The CNMI Department of Public Safety will conduct four separate sobriety checkpoints on Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025.

AT a forum organized by Our Common Wealth 670 and held at Caravan of Food in Garapan on Nov. 14, political anthropologist Dr. David Vine delivered a pointed critique of U.S. military expansion in the Marianas, urging communities to challenge prevailing myths underpinning militarization and to recla…

THE U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has affirmed a District Court for the NMI ruling that retiree Rosa Camacho is not entitled to cost-of-living allowances, or COLAs, as part of her retirement benefits.

A FEDERAL complaint has been filed against a Saipan diving instructor accused of possessing child pornography on his Apple iPad.

GOVERNOR David M. Apatang on Friday declared a CNMI state funeral will be held in honor of the late former Lt. Gov. Diego Tenorio Benavente.

MENTAL health and wellness coach Asia Camacho Hilario, who returned from California last summer, has been helping many people who are stressed by austerity measures in the CNMI — especially employees of the Public School System — through sound healing sessions she launched in September.

ALMOST two months after it ceased operations on Oct. 31, 2025, the Triple J store on Beach Road in Chalan Kanoa is back.

(FOTM) — Local advocacy group, Friends of the Mariana Trench, reaffirmed their strong opposition to deep sea mining, demanding greater transparency in the federal government’s motivations to rip up the seafloor in the Northern Mariana Islands to extract rare minerals.

(CNMI Judiciary) — On Nov. 20, 2025, the local Supreme Court issued an opinion in Tang v. Guo affirming the Superior Court’s findings of parol evidence regarding fraud, calculation of post-judgment interest and conditioning the return of certain leasehold properties on satisfaction of the judgment.…

A Refaluwasch cultural advocate is urging Commonwealth leaders and residents to reject seabed mining, warning that the practice threatens the Marianas’ ecological integrity, cultural heritage and sovereignty. Refaluwasch, which means “people of the island” in the Carolinian language, is a term that…