Hawaii News

March 3, 2025 | 8 MIN READ

Hospitality industry members from the Hawai‘i Hotel Alliance and the American Hotel &Lodging Association are seeking to draw attention to current and looming challenges facing their...

March 3, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

About two dozen people attended a public meeting with East Hawaii Community Policing Section officers last Wednesday at the Mokupapapa Discovery Center in downtown Hilo.

March 2, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

Hilo-native Reed Sunahara has been named the new head coach of the UH Hilo Vulcans Women’s Volleyball program.

March 2, 2025 | 8 MIN READ

The Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge on Kauai, with its historic lighthouse, attracts more than 500,000 visitors a year.

March 2, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

Although the Kama‘ehuakanaloa Seamount has been a little restless recently, new information about the undersea volcano is still sparse.

March 2, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

The state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands wants to start up a modular housing factory on Oahu to produce homes more quickly and at less cost for beneficiaries.

March 1, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

For the fifth straight year, there will be no Hawaii County Fair in Hilo or Kona in 2025.

March 1, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

A 32-year-old Oklahoma man will be extradited from the Big Island to Ohio to face two counts of aggravated murder for the shooting death of a married couple who were reportedly his business pa...

March 1, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

State proposals to pursue geothermal development on the Big Island are still going strong.

March 1, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

A 22-year-old Hilo man remains in jail on 19 criminal charges in connection with an armed robbery Tuesday on Waiakea Peninsula in Hilo.

March 1, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

Wendy Hensel, the new president of the University of Hawaii system, continued her statewide tour of universities, community colleges and education centers last week at the Hawaii Community Col...

February 28, 2025 | 9 MIN READ

The 2025 first-quarter economic forecast by the University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization paints a somber outlook of the state economy, warning of the potential for a recession depen...

February 27, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

The U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday medevaced a cruise ship passenger who experienced multiple strokes 300 miles offshore of Kailua-Kona.

February 27, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

Hawaii lawmakers are considering a contingency plan to help fund nonprofit organization operations facing federal funding cuts.

February 27, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

Kealakehe High School had the only team in the state that was chosen to participate in this year’s NASA TechRise Student Challenge, a nationwide contest to engage students in technology,...

February 27, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

An early morning structure fire Thursday destroyed a vacant, single-story home in Puna’s Fern Acres subdivision.