HHSAA swimming and diving championships: BIIF’s best settle for silver
KEAAU – Michelle Axelson appreciated her backstroke, tipping her cap to the only swimmer who could beat her.
HHSAA soccer: Kamehameha claims D2 boys soccer title
Lucas Kay Wong already had helped keep his Kamehameha teammates calm after a shocking penalty kick miss.
HHSAA boys soccer: Hilo, Kaniaupio stop Kaiser in PKs, gain chance at first state crown
Hilo High goalkeeper Tysen Kaniaupio dove to his left to deflect the ball, picked himself up, raised his arm and ran to his teammates.
A Rose without a thorn: With sweet X-cellence, Waikoloa swimmer continues rapid rise
PAHOA – The name befits a Hollywood Script, and so does the physique.
HHSAA boys soccer: Hilo High advances to semifinals as favorites fall
Michael DeCoito sneaked in a goal Thursday for Hilo High when Aiea wasn’t paying attention, but his free kick was far from the only surprise at the HHSAA Division I boys soccer tournament.
Barr’s book discovers that Trump was unfit – duh
Former Attorney General William Barr spent almost two years running interference for a dangerously unfit president. Now, in a brazen but not terribly persuasive attempt to clean up his image in history, Barr warns that his ex-boss, Donald Trump, didn’t belong in the White House and shouldn’t be invited back. “Trump cared only about one thing: himself,” Barr writes in his new memoir. “Country and principle took second place.”
Biden vows to halt Russia, inflation
By ZEKE MILLER and COLLEEN LONG
Vikings hit the mark on mat: Hilo wrestlers collect eight weight divisions in sweeping team titles
KAILUA-KONA – Tyler Milare leads Hilo High’s wrestling room with a hands-on approach, putting on shorts every day in practice to get a feel for the strengths and weaknesses of each Viking.
BIIF wrestling: Coming in all shapes and sizes, league champs reap rewards of hard work
KAILUA-KONA – Twenty-seven BIIF wrestling champions, 27 different stories.
HHSAA girls soccer: Waiakea empowered to come back stronger
Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades … and for BIIF soccer teams at the HHSAA Division I girls tournament.
UH-Hilo/UH: BIIF alums lend big hand to Hawaii’s first road win
Big Islanders had their fingerprints all over the University of Hawaii baseball team’s first road win of the season.
Baseball: UHH salvages split of doubleheader at HPU
Joseph Gallagher stroked a two-run, two-out double in the sixth inning Friday against his former team, and UH-Hilo beat Hawaii Pacific 7-4 to split a doubleheader in Waipahu, Oahu.
Pahoa primed for swimming: Hawaii age group championships run through Sunday
The end of the BIIF swimming season did not include a medal haul for Pahoa High, but there were other perks for swimming coach Dorothy Staskawicz.
Late run rallies Hawaii to 63-54 victory over Cal Poly
HONOLULU, Hawaii — Jerome Desrosiers finished with 14 points, Jovon McClanahan scored 13 and Hawaii closed the game on a 9-0 run to defeat Cal Poly 63-54 on Thursday night.
HHSAA soccer: Waiakea girls reach state D-I semis for first time
Waiakea’s girl soccer team keeps on making history.
Russia attacks Ukraine as Putin issues warning
Russian troops launched a wide-ranging attack today on Ukraine, as President Vladimir Putin cast aside international condemnation and sanctions and warned other countries that any attempt to interfere would lead to “consequences you have never seen.”
US Navy contractor names 4 killed in Kauai helicopter crash
HONOLULU — A civilian contractor working for the U.S. Navy on Wednesday disclosed the names of four employees killed when their helicopter crashed on the Hawaii island of Kauai.
Ex-defense contractors plead not guilty to bad donations on Oahu
HONOLULU — Three former executives of a Hawaii-based defense contractor pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of funneling more than $200,000 in illegal donations to aid the reelection campaign of Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine.
COVID shots unlikely to prompt rare inflammation in kids
COVID-19 vaccines are unlikely to trigger a rare inflammatory condition linked to coronavirus infection in children, according to an analysis of U.S. government data published Tuesday.
BIIF swimming and diving championships: Kealakehe does it right with clean sweep
KEAAU – Nolan Morton couldn’t say his three favorite words enough: “This means everything.”
