The tiny Pacific island of Yap, home to just 11,000 people, was best known for its snorkeling and wreck-filled dives before the state’s acting attorney general, Rachelle Bergeron, was gunned … ...

Henry S. Falan, the governor of Yap, announced that "arrests have been made" in the Oct. 14 shooting of Bergeron, who served as acting attorney general for the remote island.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Micronesian island state of Yap is small and remote, about 21 hours of flying from North Carolina without counting airport stops along the way. “Paradise, if ...

The island is only 39 square miles, and was under Spanish control until the turn of the twentieth century. Paul Zimmer has just returned from a mission to Yap, on which his wife and six children ...

Amos Collins, a friend of the couple and coworker of Haemmerling’s, called her position as acting attorney general the “most dangerous job” on the island. Bergeron moved to Yap in 2015 after working ...

The people of Yap, a flyspeck of an island in the western Pacific, learned long ago how to make money the hard way: They carved giant stone currency and ferried it across open ocean in canoes.

HAGATNA, Guam (AP) - A typhoon warning has been issued for Yap Island in the Federated States of Micronesia in the western Pacific Ocean. The National Weather Service said in a statement that ...

Credit: David Morris. On the tiny Pacific island of Yap, when it was time for a girl to become a woman, she would traditionally go to a special house in the forest for four months.

Micronesia has posted a typhoon warning for the tiny island. The storm is currently 22 miles south-southwest of Ulithi (one of the outer islands of the State of Yap) and is moving west at 2 knots ...

Yap State Public Service Corp. is seeking bids to supply solar minigrids with battery energy storage systems (BESS), totaling 79 kW, for Yap Island in the Federated States of Micronesia.