NEWCASTLE, Australia (AP) — Samoa will head to the polls on Aug. 29, a half-year earlier than expected, after Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mata’afa’s government collapsed following a budget defeat in ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Samoa ’s Prime Minister said she would seek to dissolve Parliament, prompting an early election, after a vote on her government’s budget for the next year failed Tuesday ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Samoa went to the polls Friday in a critical election that could decide the future of the Pacific Island nation’s first woman leader, who called the vote after her ...

APIA, Samoa (AP) – Samoa says it will release 35 prisoners as an act of forgiveness as it celebrates its 50th anniversary of independence. Samoa’s head of state made the announcement Friday as he ...