Hawaii News

March 24, 2025 | 7 MIN READ

A series of bills aimed at further cleaning up government ethics, lobbying practices and campaign contributions — while making it easier for new candidates to campaign for office —...

March 24, 2025 | 7 MIN READ

President Donald Trump’s widely expected executive order Thursday to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education was met with alarm and contempt from Hawaii educators and the state’...

March 23, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

A 66-year-old murder suspect, allegedly linked by DNA evidence to the 1977 strangulation death of a 16-year-old McKinley High School student, was released from the Salt Lake County Jail becaus...

March 23, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

The state Department of Education has launched a formal review process to assess whether some public school campuses should be consolidated, citing a steady decline in student enrollment over...

March 23, 2025 | 7 MIN READ

A small sample of once-loyal Hawaii visitors from Canada have written to Gov. Josh Green and Hawaii tourism officials that they canceled their latest trips to the islands because of President...

March 23, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

Two Senate committees Tuesday unanimously passed a bill that continues momentum for a proposed artificial intelligence institute at the University of Hawaii.

March 22, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

KILAUEA — Last week, The El Dorado County Fire Protection District from Camino, California, identified 43-year-old Fire Marshal and Division Chief Lucas Shepard as the drowning victim at...

March 22, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

Temporary housing now serves fewer than half of all households affected by the August 2023 Maui wildfires, according to surveys aimed at tracking recovery from the disaster.

March 22, 2025 | 8 MIN READ

Timi Gilliom, captain and builder of the voyaging canoe Mo‘okiha o Pi‘ilani, awoke from a midday nap in Hui O Wa’a Kaulua’s Front Street shop on Aug. 8, 2023, to the so...

March 22, 2025 | 7 MIN READ

When Keawe Santos was enrolled at a kindergarten in California, his teacher had trouble pronouncing his name, sometimes calling him “Kee-ah-wee” or “Kiwi.”

March 21, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

Maui’s police chief says he has proof that he was never in any of the places where a victim of Sean “Diddy” Combs claimed he was in a federal civil suit alleging the veteran...

March 21, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

Gov. Josh Green announced Friday the first disbursement from the $175 million One ‘Ohana Fund, part of the Maui Wildfires Compensation Program created to provide direct financial relief...

March 21, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, on Thursday launched a new online guide aimed at helping Hawaii residents affected by recent shifts in federal policies under President Donald Trump’s a...

March 21, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

KILAUEA — A man was arrested last Monday following a suspicious person report in Kilauea.

March 21, 2025 | 7 MIN READ

Dr. Gina French, a pediatrician at Kapi‘olani Medical Center for Women &Children, has been spending more time these days explaining the importance of vaccines to patients and clearin...

March 21, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

ALAKAI PLATEAU – To the untrained eye, the water level in Kawaikoi Stream, which drains a portion of the vast Alakai Plateau on Kauai, looks fine. The trained eyes and stream flow measur...