Hundreds of patients at Samoa's main hospital, the Tupua Tamasese Meaole Hospital in the capital, Apia, went without meals after kitchen staff failed to show up for work in protest over unpaid wages.

APIA, Samoa (AP) - The U.S. Geological Survey says a powerful 7.9-magnitude earthquake has struck in the South Pacific between Samoa and American Samoa. A tsunami alert has been issued for the region.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Samoa’s main streets were eerily quiet on Thursday as the government stepped up efforts to curb a measles epidemic that has killed 62 people. The government told most ...

AN earthquake of magnitude 6.0 struck off the South Pacific island nation of Samoa today, seismologists reported, two weeks after a violent quake caused a tsunami that devastated Tonga, Samoa and ...

(Reuters) -Samoa held a national election on Friday with the Pacific Island nation's first female prime minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa seeking to return to office in a race against the long-serving ...

US Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa Scott Brown says cultural differences prompted an investigation into comments he made that caused "offense" at an event in Samoa -- and that politics might have ...

SYDNEY, March 27 (Reuters) - Climate change and efforts to keep up with advances in artificial intelligence top the agenda for a Commonwealth meeting set for the small Pacific Islands nation of Samoa ...