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DPS to conduct sobriety checkpoints

November 24, 2025

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

US delivers $20M for Palau Pension Plan, but use hinges on reform

November 24, 2025

KOROR (Island Times/Pacnews) — President Surangel Whipps Jr. has received the United States’ $20 million grant for Palau’s struggling Civil Service Pension Plan, but the funds come with a key condition: Palau must enact pension reform within one year. The update was announced at a Nov. 19 press co…

Fiji conference focuses on region’s expertise

November 24, 2025

(Press Release) — The 2025 Pacific Islands GIS and Remote Sensing User Conference, to be held Nov. 24-27 at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji is bringing together about 300 scientists, companies, policymakers and regional users, creating a crucial hub for regional growth.

DOGE ‘doesn’t exist’ with eight months left on its charter

November 24, 2025

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate, ending an initiative launched with fanfare as a symbol of Trump’s pledge to slash the government’s size but which critics say delivered few meas…

Anthropologist calls military spending ‘terrible economic strategy’

November 23, 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…

Ninth Circuit upholds ruling denying COLAs for CNMI retiree

November 23, 2025

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.

Diving instructor charged with child pornography

November 23, 2025

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

State funeral set for late former Lt. Gov. Benavente

November 23, 2025

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.

Sound healing program helps ease stress from austerity measures

November 23, 2025

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.

Triple J store scales down, reopens as Fresh Market in CK

November 23, 2025

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

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