Start small, start now: What will it take to bring sihek back to Guam?

I recently returned from a 10-week trip assisting with sihek Guåhan (Guam kingfisher) monitoring at The Nature Conservancy’s Palmyra Atoll Preserve. Last year, nine sihek were released into the atoll’s rainforest, the first birds of their species to fly …

Serve Guam OKs 3 AmeriCorps applications, funding uncertain

The Serve Guam Commission approved three applications for AmeriCorps funding during a special meeting Wednesday, while acknowledging ongoing concerns about potential federal funding cuts that could impact community service programs. Commission Chair Peter …

Traveler faces trafficking charges after arriving in Guam with meth

A man faces drug trafficking charges for allegedly purchasing pills in Mexico that tested positive for methamphetamine and flying with them from Hawaii to Guam. On Monday afternoon, Mark Edwin Cacho Ocampo, 32, arrived in Guam by plane from Hawaii and …

Parts of Guam Avenue in Mishawaka to remain closed until late May

MISHAWAKA, Ind. (WNDU) - Part of Mishawaka’s Guam Avenue will be closed from now to May 23. According to our reporting partners at The South Bend Tribune, crews are in the process of working on utility extensions for the Normain Heights Park improvement …

Outdated: Guam Customs agency languishing in the paper world

 By Pacific Island Times News Staff Despite the government’s push for digitalization, the Guam Customs and Quarantine Agency still uses a manual filing system and relies heavily on “paper-intensive” submissions for cargo documentation. “All entry documents …

OPA: Guam collects 'woefully low' alcohol taxes over bad filing system, cargo data in cardboard boxes

Auditors were unable to calculate just how much taxable liquor comes in and out of the island because the Guam Customs and Quarantine Agency tracks all cargo data on paper forms — some in Japanese and German — stored in a warehouse full of 5,000 cardboard …

Guam plans state-of-the-art medical complex to address island’s health care challenges

The Guam Governor's Office hopes to relocate Guam Memorial Hospital in Tamuning, seen here on Dec. 11, 2022, to Mangilao as part of a proposed medical complex. (Alex Wilson/Stars and Stripes) Guam is advancing plans to build a $743 million medical …

Unresolved incidents on Guam: Missing sailor, unidentified body, and hospital

Guam's Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Kenny Su, confirmed to KUAM that the victim has been identified and that he determined both the cause and manner of death on the same day an autopsy was performed. However, authorities have yet to release those details …

Next-Use book donation from Guam to Chuuk to support education for thousands of students

Guam Education Board passes resolution to align with Trump's ban on transgender athletes

The move follows the AG's compliance guidance, with Moylan cautioning the potential loss of roughly $170 million in federal funding.  “They recently just passed a resolution - took that resolution, and sent it back to the White House and the Department …