Prosecutors are declining to charge a Hawaii man who was arrested on suspicion of murder after shooting a neighbor who opened fire at a gathering where three women were killed
September 19, 2024A former CIA officer and contract linguist for the FBI who received cash, golf clubs and other expensive gifts in exchange for spying for China has been sentenced to a decade in prison
September 11, 2024
Police have released a man who was arrested on suspicion of murder after shooting and killing a neighbor who opened fire at a Hawaii gathering
September 03, 2024Second Amendment activists in Hawaii are celebrating a recent legal change that allows them to carry not just guns but other weapons — from battle-axes to butterfly knives — openly in public
August 28, 2024
Nearly a year after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century destroyed their historic Maui town, there’s a bright spot for 13 recent Lahainaluna High School graduates who are receiving scholarships that will cover the cost of attending an out-of-state college
August 01, 2024Officials say a man who was identified as a possible new suspect in the 1991 killing and sexual assault of a Virginia woman who was visiting Hawaii killed himself last week after police took a DNA swab from him
July 29, 2024
A Hawaii judge is temporarily blocking the state from enforcing a law requiring the licensing of practitioners and teachers of traditional Native Hawaiian midwifery
July 25, 2024
Several people on the Hawaiian island of Kauai needed to be rescued from floodwaters during heavy rain, but there were no immediate reports of injuries
April 13, 2024Maui officials are highlighting some steps toward rebuilding nearly a year after a deadly wildfire destroyed much of Lahaina
June 27, 2024
Hawaii authorities say the death toll from last year’s wildfire in Lahaina on the island of Maui has risen to 102
June 25, 2024
About two years after 13 children and teens sued Hawaii over the threat posed by climate change, both sides have reached a settlement that includes an ambitious requirement to decarbonize the state's transportation system over the next 21 years
June 21, 2024
Devotees of two Catholic saints — Damien and Marianne of Molokai — want to see where they spent a pivotal part of their lives caring for Hawaii’s leprosy patients
December 01, 2023
A former CIA officer and contract linguist for the FBI accused of spying for China for at least a decade has pleaded guilty in a federal courtroom in Honolulu
May 24, 2024
Forecasters say this year's hurricane season for waters around Hawaii will likely be “below normal” with one to four tropical cyclones across the central Pacific region
May 21, 2024
Honolulu has agreed to approve or deny applications to carry guns in public within four months of submission in response to a lawsuit by residents who complained of delays of up to a year
May 11, 2024
Hawaii Gov. Josh Green announced Wildfire Mitigation and Risk Reduction Preparedness Month nine months after the nation’s deadliest wildfire in over a century burned the historic town of Lahaina
May 10, 2024
Maui County is suing major cellular carriers for failing to properly inform police of widespread service outages during the height of last summer’s deadly wildfire
May 02, 2024
Richelle Dietz is a mother of two and wife of a U.S. Navy officer living on a Hawaii military base who often thinks about water
April 28, 2024
Hawaii’s attorney general is blaming a delay of the release of a key report into a deadly Maui wildfire on county agencies that forced investigators to issue subpoenas
March 18, 2024
A pinky and thumb extended with the remaining fingers curled down: That’s the “shaka” in Hawaii
March 14, 2024
A ruling by Hawaii’s high court saying that a man can be prosecuted for carrying a gun in public without a permit uses pop culture references in an apparent rebuke of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that expanded gun rights nationwide
February 08, 2024
A month before the start of a trial against Honolulu’s former top prosecutor for allegedly taking campaign donation bribes in exchange for prosecuting an employee of an engineering and architectural firm, the judge who has been presiding over the case for several years is unexpectedly recusing himself
January 24, 2024
The University of Idaho says a judge's ruling helps it move closer to acquiring the for-profit University of Phoenix for nearly $700 million
January 31, 2024
There will be at least $100 million left in the estate of the so-called last Hawaiian princess to support Native Hawaiian culture
January 11, 2024
Devotees of two Catholic saints — Damien and Marianne of Molokai — want to see where they spent a pivotal part of their lives caring for Hawaii’s leprosy patients
December 01, 2023
GM to lay off about 1,700 workers at Kansas plant
Ireland drops plans for hate speech law, minister says
Tens of thousands of bees found living in a Maine family’s farmhouse
Russia says it will take no part in follow-up to 'peace summit'
France unveils a more right-wing government after deadlock
Sullivan expresses worry over escalating Israel-Lebanon tension, calls Hezbollah strike as justice served
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She was born blind, but she travels the world by herself
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