Northern Mariana Islands News

The victims of the Nov. 20 Saipan mass shooting have officially been identified by the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Department of Public Safety, according to a release from spokesman Officer Jason Tarkong.

Incumbent Gov. Benigno R. Fitial is narrowly leading a runoff election to serve a five-year term as governor of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

A Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas Anthony M. Babauta awarded a $1,930,443 Compact-Impact grant to the CNMI.

U.S. Congressman Gregorio C. Sablan is an original co-sponsor of legislation that will increase funding for domestic violence shelters in the Northern Mariana Islands and around the United States.

SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands- Incumbent Gov. Benigno R. Fitial has narrowly won a runoff election to serve another term as governor of the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

These undated images provided by the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Department of Public Safety shows Li Zhongren, 42, a Chinese male who is believed to have started the initial shooting at the Kannat Tabla Shooting Range and who took his own life on Banzai Cliff with a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head Friday, Nov.

At least four people were shot dead and six South Korean visitors wounded when a gunman fired into a crowd of tourists on the resort island of Saipan, South Korea's Foreign Ministry said on Friday.

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands leaders are once again asking more than 16,000 registered voters to be part of history by voting in the CNMI's first gubernatorial runoff election on Monday.

The Navy announced today that the draft environmental impact statement/overseas environmental impact statement for the military buildup on Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is available.

The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or CNMI, is a chain of 14 islands in the north-west Pacific.

SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands - SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands a ' A gunman went on a rampage on the Pacific resort island of Saipan Friday, first at a shooting range and then at a World War II historical site, killing four people and wounding six others before fatally shooting himself, officials said.

At least five people have died in a shooting incident in the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific.

Second part of a series That was how the U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of Inspector General capsulized the health care condition in the insular areas, including the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, in a scathing report last year.

U.S. Rep. Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan and more than 70 of his colleagues in the House of Representatives have joined the new bi-partisan Congressional Military Family Caucus.

October 2009 visitor arrivals to the Northern Mariana Islands were down 31 percent compared to October 2008, a drop forecasted two months ago for these low travel demand "shoulder" months before the peak yearend holidays.

Palau Minister of State Sandra Pierantozzi confirmed yesterday that the island nation's consulate offices on Guam and in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands will close next month because of a funding shortage.

The Commonwealth Election Commission has certified the 2009 General Election on Monday, Nov.

The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed legislation providing sweeping healthcare coverage for Americans by a vote of 220 to 215.

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.