Hawaii News

May 20, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

A controversial commercial development on the famous black sand beaches of Big Island has been stalled by foreclosure.

May 20, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

Hawaiian Electric is drones for aerial inspections of its electrical infrastructure in identified wildfire risk areas on Hawaii Island.

May 20, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

Hawaii households, with higher electricity rates than the rest of the nation, could benefit from any help available to keep those bills down.

May 19, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

A controversial proposal to build a resort development in Punaluʻu appears to be dead.

May 19, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

Hawaii County is holding another hearing to consider proposed entry fees for Pana‘ewa Rainforest Zoo &Gardens.

May 18, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

The state agency helping Native Hawaiians with housing needs is at risk again of a federal funding cutoff.

May 18, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

For the fifth consecutive year, bills were introduced in the state Legislature to reduce the blood-alcohol content threshold for a drunken driving charge from 0.08% to 0.05%.

May 18, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

Twenty-three inmates closing in on their release date from Big Island correctional facilities participated Thursday in a reintegration resource fair at Hawaii Community Correctional Center&rsq...

May 18, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

Tree trimming and vegetation maintenance will take place starting Monday on Waipi‘o Valley Road.

May 18, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

Police called in the Hawaii Island Bomb Squad Thursday evening after a resident reported discovering what appeared to be an unexploded grenade in a riverbed at a trail park in Waimea.

May 18, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

The Hawaii Army National Guard will be preparing for its annual training exercises in June by shipping its vehicles and equipment from Oahu to Hawaii Island starting today.

May 17, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

Police launched a negligent homicide investigation after a 21-year-old male pedestrian was killed in a traffic crash Friday evening in Kurtistown.

May 16, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

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May 16, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

A Guatemalan national illegally in the U.S. since 2016 likely will be deported after he was arrested for a second time in January for drunken driving in Kailua-Kona without a license or insura...

May 16, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

A near- to below-average hurricane season is forecast for Hawaii and the Central Pacific.

May 15, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

Forecasters with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Central Pacific Hurricane Center and Climate Prediction today predicted there will be between one and four tropical...