M5.8 Quake Felt Across Marianas During “Good Morning Marianas”; No Tsunami Threat
SAIPAN — A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck southeast of Tinian at 9:06 a.m. Tuesday and was felt across the Marianas, prompting residents in villages across Saipan, Tinian, Rota, and Guam to report where they were when the shaking hit.
NWS: Showers tonight, drier midweek for CNMI; winds and hazardous surf risk rises this weekend
SAIPAN — The National Weather Service office in Guam says a surface trough east of the Marianas is expected to bring scattered light to moderate showers to the CNMI tonight and Wednesday, followed by drier conditions through Friday.
JTBC Golf Series, Youth Clinic Spotlight Saipan Winter Golf Appeal
SAIPAN — The Marianas’ push to grow its profile as a winter golf destination is being highlighted through two recent Marianas Visitors Authority projects in Saipan: the new JTBC Golf program “JTBC LaoLao Bay Invitational Season 1 The Memories” and the Marianas Youth Golf Clinic held this month for local junior players.
Three NMC students receive 2025–2026 Mobil Oil Marianas, Inc. scholarships
SAIPAN — Three Northern Marianas College students have been awarded the Mobil Oil Marianas, Inc. Scholarship for the 2025–2026 academic year, with this year’s recipients pursuing degrees in natural resource management and nursing. This year’s awardees are Chelsy Anne P. Reyes, an Associate of Science student in Natural Resource Management, and Hyena Kim and Vanessa K. Falig, both Associate of Science students in Nursing.
Mount Carmel School seniors Dela Santa, Cano earn QuestBridge Match scholarships to Boston University, MIT
SAIPAN — Mount Carmel School said two of its seniors, Heleyna Frielle Cruz Dela Santa and William Matthew Bongabong Cano, have been selected as QuestBridge National College Match Scholarship recipients, earning full four-year scholarships to partner universities.
Rob Reiner’s son Nick ‘booked for murder’ in stabbings of director-actor and wife
Rob Reiner’s younger son, Nick Reiner, is in police custody for what investigators believe was the fatal stabbing of the director-actor and his wife at their Los Angeles home a day earlier, police said.
DLNR Secretary Sylvan Igisomar pleads not guilty; case set for February status conference
SAIPAN — Department of Land and Natural Resources Secretary Sylvan Igisomar appeared in Superior Court today for arraignment alongside co-defendants Ignacio Ernesto Itibus Yiftheg and Rosemary C. Camacho, with all three entering not guilty pleas to the criminal charges filed against them by the CNMI Office of the Attorney General.
NMC Opens Registration for Spring 2026 Semester
SAIPAN — Northern Marianas College has opened registration for its Spring 2026 semester, inviting new and returning students to apply for programs ranging from business and nursing to education, hospitality, and criminal justice.
OP-ED: CNMI, the Covenant, and the Myth of “Biting the Hand That Feeds Us”
For decades, too many in the CNMI have internalized a dangerous myth—that if we speak up, we are somehow “biting the hand that feeds us.” That myth has kept us silent while billion-dollar decisions are made about our seabed, our islands, and our future.
Impossible Metals pitches profit-sharing seabed mining plan for CNMI to BOEM
SAIPAN — A U.S. seabed-mining startup has formally told federal regulators it wants to mine polymetallic nodules in waters east of the Northern Mariana Islands and is offering a profit share for the CNMI if leasing moves forward. In a letter to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Impossible Metals CEO Oliver Gunasekara said the San Jose-based, Delaware-incorporated company is “affirm[ing] our commercial interest in a lease in this area” under BOEM’s Request for Information and Interest for offshore minerals in the CNMI exclusive economic zone, docket BOEM-2025-0351.
