Sionna Stallings Ala’ilima became the Tacoma Fire Department's new chief on Tuesday, breaking ground as the first Samoan to hold the position in the city’s history. She says she wants to ...

Fiame said that advice was accepted, and the Head of State has confirmed that the official dissolution of Parliament will ...

U.S. Census data shows over 11,000 people of Samoan descent live in Los Angeles County, with a large concentration living in the South Bay. On Saturday, June 24, Carson city leaders and over 1,000 ...

Travelers arrive on the 46-mile long island of Upolu, which is also home to Samoa’s capital city, Apia. Most stay on Upolu, perhaps taking a day trip to one of the other Samoan islands.

Launiu recently sat down with Kansas City Star culture and identity reporter J.M. Banks to talk about growing up in a Samoan village, moving to the United States and fusing his culture with others ...

Dancers from the Ladies of the Pacific Dance Academy — dressed in traditional Samoan regalia — led the ceremony on the eighth floor of City Hall. The dancers methodically mixed the dried roots ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Analei Samasei’a is busy making calls and getting the word out to young Samoan women about a new fellowship. The fellowship program, created by the Nafanua Foundation ...

A forensic pathologist was due to travel from Fiji to Apia, a city of 36,000 people on Samoa’s second-largest island, Upolu, to conduct an autopsy later this month. Tulsi Gabbard, a former U.S ...

A jury this week awarded $11.5 million to a former Los Angeles police K-9 handler who sued the city alleging that his ... against him in part because of his Samoan ancestry. The officer, Mark ...

That’s how Sewell played as a child in Samoa. While some of his future Lions teammates trained with virtual reality goggles under the supervision of $200-an-hour coaches, Penei and his brothers ...

Editor's Note: This interview is part of an ongoing Star series highlighting Kansas Citians from historically underrepresented communities and their impact on our region. The series builds on The ...