ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A state appeals court is being asked to dismiss felony voter misconduct charges against an Alaska resident born in American Samoa, one of numerous cases that have drawn ...

WHITTIER, Alaska — They were born on U.S. soil, are entitled to U.S. passports and allowed to serve in the U.S. military, but 11 people in a small Alaska town are facing criminal charges after they ...

Growing up in American Samoa, Filipo Ilaoa’s neighbors were his cousins on a plot of land full of banana and breadfruit trees shared by his extended family and overseen by a chief elected by his ...

WHITTIER — Squeezed between glacier-packed mountains and Prince William Sound, the cruise-ship stop of Whittier is isolated enough that it’s reachable by just a single road, through a long, one-lane ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Ten Alaska residents faced arraignment Thursday on voter misconduct or other charges in cases that have renewed attention on the complex citizenship status of people born in ...

NOAA plans to scour more than 30,000 square nautical miles of waters off American Samoa to figure out the possibilities there ...

Members of Alaska’s Court of Appeals appeared skeptical Thursday about Alaska prosecutors’ claim that a Whittier resident from American Samoa violated state law when she ran for school board in 2023.

Voting American Samoans FILE - Michael Pese and his wife Tupe Smith pose for a photo with their son Maximus and daughter Cataleya in Whittier, Alaska, May 13, 2025 ...