The U.S. has 16 territories in areas of the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean. People living in U.S. territories are citizens of ...

While deep-sea mining could reduce U.S. dependence on foreign supply chains, environmental advocates warn that the practice ...

Alaska’s largest city has reached a $2.1 million settlement with the family of a 16-year-old girl who was holding a knife last August when she was fatally shot by a police officer. Anchorage ...

Now open to commercial fishing, the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument is home to a vast array of threatened or ...

A California company’s bid to mine the seafloor near American Samoa gained momentum after the U.S. Interior Department agreed ...

Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa says it's a tough time for the Pacific region as leaders navigate a dynamic geopolitical ...

Samoan Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa says the geopolitical landscape in the Pacific "is becoming very contested".

Read about senior missionaries of the Church who travel around Savai'i, Samoa, fashioning prosthetics for dozens of amputees.

Commercial mining on the miles-deep Pacific Ocean floor came one step closer to reality with an announcement late Tuesday by ...

The Trump administration says it will consider selling leases to extract minerals from the seabed off the South Pacific ...

One of the most beloved figures in the Pacific Islander community, Oscar Kightley is an actor, writer, director, comedian, ...

Impossible Metals, a deep-sea mining startup, submitted a formal request to the Department of the Interior to sell leases to ...