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 ...

(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 ...

Hundreds of patients at Samoa's main hospital in the capital, Apia, went without meals after kitchen staff failed to show up ...

Britain's King Charles III and his wife Queen Camilla departed Samoa Saturday, wrapping up a marathon 11-day tour that included a controversy-tinged stop in their Australian realm. The 75-year-old ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Rescuers reached scenes of stunning devastation on Thursday after a killer tsunami obliterated Samoan island villages, killing at least ...