Northern Mariana Islands News

The Northern Mariana Islands, a commonwealth of the United States, held its gubernatorial election on November 7, 2009.

The General Patton Memorial Museum will open an exhibit Nov. 11 of artwork created by a soldier who never came home.

"My heart is still here." That is how strongly Kwang Joong "KJ" Kim feels about the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands that has bestowed on him this week the title of honorary tourism ambassador.

THE U.S. Department of Homeland Security published on Monday an interim final rule revising the language of certain immigration regulations so that the asylum program observed in the country would not apply to the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands even as the U.S. immigration law is extended to the islands on Nov.

Guam will play host to the first Forensic Science Symposium next week at Harvest Christian Academy Family Life Center.

It's time to say goodbye to daylight saving time. Standard time returns this weekend, so don't forget to set your clock back an hour before turning in Saturday night.

The United Micronesia Development Association announced yesterday that a settlement has been reached with its former director, Robert Pfaff, in a civil suit UMDA filed in the Superior Court of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

On May 8, 2008, President Bush signed into law Public Law 110-229, the Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008.

Guam will receive more than $16 million in Compact Impact funding, according to a release from the Department of the Interior.

Federal regulators are evaluating rules allowing the Navy to practice using sonar in waters around Guam and nearby Pacific islands so long as sailors take steps to protect whales and other marine mammals.

Jean-Paul Chaine, Heath Kelly, Mariana Sablan, and Michaela Riddell Author affiliations: Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ; and Department of Public Health, Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands To the Editor: The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands , a group of northern ...

Two Putnam County science teachers have been chosen as Fellows in the 2009 NSTA New Science Teacher Academy.

Although the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands recently received at least $24 million in federal stimulus funding to improve its public schools, the Guam Department of Education has still only been awarded about $1 million.

The Northern Marianas has received the first installment on the largest, single grant ever awarded to the commonwealth.

THE Marianas Visitors Authority and the governor's Strategic Economic Development Council are working with the Hotel Association of the Northern Mariana Islands to help revive local tourism, Press Secretary Charles P. Reyes Jr.

A man with local ties has pleaded guilty in Indiana to three counts related to a mortgage fraud scheme in which Henry County residents were the victims.

Casino investors are buying up hotel properties on Rota, the second-largest island of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, in hopes of attracting military gamblers once the U.S. increases its presence in nearby Guam.

In recent years, a cultural renaissance has taken shape on island reviving interests among local teens to rediscover the unique traditions of the Mariana Islands.

THE Hotel Association of the Northern Mariana Islands admits that competing with other tourist destinations like Guam and Hawaii is a oedifficult,a and it expects local hotel occupancy rate to further decrease after federalization.

The Marianas Visitors Authority recently promoted Saipan, Tinian, and Rota at the Pacific Asia Travel Association Travel Mart 2009 in Hangzhou, China.