Guam

A new textbook to teach people how to speak, read and write Chamorro aims to keep the Pacific language from disappearing as the number of native speakers dwindles. The Conversation spoke to retired University of Hawaiʻi professor Faye Untalan about developing the curriculum.

For the first time in more than 30 years, the latte stones are making a public appearance at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu. They've lived in the museum for over a century since researchers took the cultural relics from across the Pacific Ocean to expand the museum's collection. HPR's Cassie Ordonio reports.

The nearly $3.4 billion dry dock modernization project at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard is spurring creative thinking to fill the engineering jobs needed over the next several years.

The Conversation learns about an effort to map World War II shipwrecks in Micronesia — boats that ended up on the ocean floor as payback for the Pearl Harbor bombing. Archeology professor William Jeffery of the University of Guam has more.

Authorities in the U.S. territory of Guam are vowing to bring to justice those who fatally shot a Korean visitor in a tourist district. KUAM-TV reports the shooting occurred when the traveler and his wife were walking toward a hotel on Guam’s popular Tumon Bay from a nearby beach on Thursday evening.

Guam native Craig Santos Perez is the first Pacific Islander to win the prestigious National Book Award for Poetry — and the first Pacific Islander to win in any category. The Conversation's Catherine Cruz talked to the author about what that win meant not just to him as a Chamorro, but to a culture often overlooked.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has officially declared two Guam native species extinct. HPR's Derrick Malama has more in the Pacific News Minute.

Julian Aguon, a native of Guam, is using his skills as a writer and a lawyer to tackle issues of environmental justice — tangled in complicated political history. He's in Honolulu as a featured speaker at the University of Hawaiʻi’s Better Tomorrow Speaker Series.

In the aftermath of Typhoon Mawar, a critically endangered bird faces extinction on Guam. The ko'ko' bird now "teeters on the brink" with just 74 left on the island, according to the animal welfare organization American Humane.

Typhoon Mawar passed north of Guam as a Category 4 typhoon on May 24, bringing hurricane-force winds and heavy rain. More than 90 percent of the island lost power, water, and phone service following the storm.