Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Small arrows, birds and stars adorn the tops of the soldier’s hands and fingers. Etched into her skin from the wrists up to her ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hi! I'm Morgan, and I'm a 30-year-old Samoan woman. Morgan Sloss / BuzzFeed Even if you don't know much about Samoan culture, ...

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...

Researchers have identified the anti-inflammatory mechanism behind a plant used for centuries in traditional Samoan medicine. The new study found the plant, known as matalafi, is as effective at ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Overfishing and the degradation of reefs is a common problem across the Pacific, not least in Samoa, ...

HONOLULU (Island News)-- A Samoan Army Captain is the first soldier to receive approval to have traditional “tatau” or tattoos on her hands. This move not only honors Captain Isis Sake’s cultural ...

A traditional 'fale' structure on the island of Savaii in Samoa, in the central South Pacific. THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION/Catherine Wilson APIA, Samoa (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In many Pacific ...