Hawaii News

May 29, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

Three years since surveys began, the University of Hawaii has found that the state’s numerous health care challenges continue to grow, especially for those living in poverty.

May 28, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

The island of Molokai is perhaps the most rural of all of the main Hawaiian isles, with a population of just about 7,400 on about 260 square miles of land.

May 28, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

A more than 100-year-old family-owned business has requested the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation pause its plans to condemn the company’s large automotive servicing center pr...

May 28, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

A group of Native Hawaiians and three environmental organizations are challenging the legality of a move by President Donald Trump to permit commercial fishing within a Pacific marine monument...

May 27, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

A March lawsuit against the Department of Government Efficiency has Hawaii’s Japanese Americans concerned about future visits to former incarceration camps, many of which are national hi...

May 27, 2025 | 8 MIN READ

The Hawai‘i Tourism Authority’s destination management focus is “not new — or effective — and the agency remains unable to gauge its own performance,” accor...

May 27, 2025 | 9 MIN READ

As the Army prepares to move into negotiations to renew leases on state-owned land it has used for training for decades, on Oahu it’s proposing a significantly smaller footprint.

May 27, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

Hawaii island health professionals are concerned changes to U.S. Food and Drug Administration rules for COVID-19 vaccines could limit their availability for healthy people under 65 who get vac...

May 26, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

KALALAU — First responders rescued an injured 32-year-old visitor from Kalalau Beach on Friday.

May 26, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

The transport of 400,000 tons of nonhazardous debris from the August 2023 Lahaina wildfire from a temporary storage site in Olowalu to a permanent disposal site at the Central Maui Landfill in...

May 26, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

Randall Wallace, 67, was apartment hunting last week for a permanent home of his own following years on the street and after only two months living in the new Iwilei homeless kauhale community...

May 26, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

It was standing room only Wednesday afternoon at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl as veterans and community members gathered to honor the anniversary of the West Loch...

May 25, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

Recent headlines have raised concerns about microplastics in our bodies and the harm they may be doing.

May 25, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

LIHUE — A number of road-related projects are on tap in the days ahead with grass cutting, tree trimming and guardrail repair making up the bulk of the work, the Hawaii Department of Tra...

May 25, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

The U.S. Training Ship Golden Bear, the 500-foot training vessel of the California State University Maritime Academy, arrived at the Nawiliwili Harbor on Saturday amid the excitement of outrig...

May 25, 2025 | 7 MIN READ

Mahina Robbins, a second-year Ph.D. student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, moved to Hawaii in 2023 to reconnect with her Native Hawaiian heritage and family while fulfilling a dream of...