Hawaii News

March 4, 2025 | 7 MIN READ

About three dozen members of the public learned Monday night at a community meeting at Aupuni Center called by the Hawaii Police Department that construction of a temporary morgue started abou...

March 4, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

A proposed energy facility in Pana‘ewa is still far from reality but already has residents raising their eyebrows.

March 4, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

A pair of adult coconut rhinoceros beetles were found Monday and Tuesday in Kailua-Kona.

March 3, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

UPDATE 1:40 p.m. Wednesday

March 3, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

A historic building in Hilo could be sold or closed amidst cutbacks by the Trump administration.

March 3, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

Police have launched an arson investigation after several brush fires started under suspicious circumstances Monday in the Hawaiian Ocean View Estates subdivision.

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 6, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

Prosecutors are seeking to hold a big-wave surfer from Keaau without bail for domestic abuse-related offenses that allegedly occurred between November 2024 and earlier this month.

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 | 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 | 2 MIN READ

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