Hawaii News

March 25, 2025 | 10 MIN READ

Steven Mana‘oakamai Johnson, a Cornell University professor who grew up on Saipan, has devoted his life to studying the ocean and how people in the Pacific depend on the fish in it to fe...

March 25, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

The last bill aimed at controlling and reducing the population of feral chickens across Hawaii died this week in the Legislature, once again, as residents remain divided over whether the ubiqu...

March 25, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

Two House committees Thursday passed a bill that would impose more user fees to nonresidents who visit specified state parks and trails.

March 24, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

The first phase of a planned years-long renovation of the Neal S. Blaisdell Concert Hall has largely been completed, city officials said.

March 24, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

LIHUE — In observance of the upcoming Prince Kuhio Day Holiday, many offices and establishments will be closed on Wednesday, March 26.

March 24, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

LIHUE — The Kauai Island Utility Cooperative announced on Saturday afternoon that Peter Yukimura, Jan TenBruggencate and Edmund Acoba have been elected to the KIUC Board of Directors. Th...

March 24, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

U.S. Rep. Ed Case lashed out at President Donald Trump’s executive order Thursday to dismantle the federal Department of Education as “shortsighted and heartless,” and the Ha...

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...