Hawaii News

May 28, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

Police are investigating a possible parking violation scam at the top of Napo‘opo‘o Road near the Hawaii Belt Road (Highway 11) intersection in Captain Cook.

May 27, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

A thrice-convicted felon is accused of an armed carjacking of a senior citizen Saturday in downtown Kailua-Kona.

May 27, 2025 | 7 MIN READ

Patrick Hart studies birds so intently on Hawaii island, he’s nearly becoming one.

May 27, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

For many, Memorial Day is the unofficial start of summer, a holiday from work and a day for the beach and backyard barbecues.

May 26, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

Seven people celebrated returning to themselves at the 73rd Big Island Drug Court commencement ceremony at Hilo’s Third Circuit court on May 15. Judge Peter Kubota said it was the bigges...

May 26, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

Some 41% of the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine’s 2025 graduating class is staying in Hawaii for residency training — a 10-point increase from last year that...

May 25, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

Honoring May as Mental Health Awareness Month, health professionals and anti-tobacco advocates are offering education on the connection between vaping and mental health issues.

May 25, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

A group of Native Hawaiians and three environmental organizations are challenging the legality of a move by President Donald Trump to permit commercial fishing within a Pacific marine monument...

May 25, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

The voyaging canoes Hokule‘a and Hikianalia were celebrated during the Hokule‘a Ho‘olaule‘a Saturday in Hilo before continuing on to French Polynesia. The canoes are fu...

May 24, 2025 | 8 MIN READ

The Hawai‘i Tourism Authority’s destination management focus is “not new — or effective — and the agency remains unable to gauge its own performance,” accor...

May 23, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

UPDATE: 12:30 p.m.

May 23, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

A panel that forecasts state tax revenue that funds Hawaii government operations on Wednesday downgraded projections for the next three fiscal years amid swirling uncertainties over federal po...

May 22, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

A United Airlines flight from Honolulu to Los Angeles returned to the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport early Wednesday morning after a bomb threat was found written on a bathroom mirror....

May 22, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

Big Island health professionals are concerned changes to U.S. Food and Drug Administration rules for COVID-19 vaccines could limit their availability for healthy people under 65 who get vaccin...

May 21, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

A United Airlines flight from Honolulu to Los Angeles returned to the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport early this morning after a bomb threat was found written on a bathroom mirror....

May 21, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

Police have released the driver of a vehicle that struck a male pedestrian who died following a Kurtistown traffic collision Friday near the Orchidland Drive and 36th Avenue intersection....