Big Island voters will help decide county, state and federal contests
The General Election will be held Tuesday, and Big Island voters will have the opportunity to choose Hawaii County’s next mayor, along with state senators and representatives, County Council members, and of course the U.S. president.
Trump and Harris offer night-and-day views of the economy
ATLANTA — Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump swept through Southern battleground states Saturday, outlining sharply divergent economic messages for voters in areas where the presidential race remains in a dead heat.
1 in 4 child deaths after ER visits are preventable, study finds
The morning after Phyllis Rabinowitz brought her newborn daughter home from the hospital, she knew something was terribly wrong. The baby, Rebecca, had thick mucus, trouble breathing and lethargy unlike anything Rabinowitz had seen in her first child.
Xenophobia and hate speech are spiking heading into the election
The last time there was a presidential election, the country was coming off a summer of protests in favor of greater racial equality. Support for increased immigration was at the highest level ever polled.
They’re giving scammers all their money. The kids can’t stop them
When Chris Mancinelli walked into his father’s home for the first time after the 79-year-old man died last summer, he stopped to look at family photos displayed on the refrigerator door. Near a crayon drawing spelling out “grandpa” in rainbow colors were photos of his father’s three granddaughters at a swimming pool.
In election’s final days, dark money and ‘gray money’ fund ‘dirty tricks’
The campaign literature that landed in Republican mailboxes in North Carolina this week was jarring. On one side was a sonogram image of a human fetus, with this message: “Her heart is beating. We all know it. Only the courageous few will protect her.” On the other side was a call to action: “You have the courage and the conviction to vote for Randall Terry.”
Why we may not know the winner of the US presidential election on Nov. 5
The U.S. presidential election will take place on Nov. 5, but the winner of the razor-thin race between Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump may not be known for days after the polls close.
Alaska’s first financial report since Hawaiian acquisition shows combined strengths
Visitor arrivals still recovering from the pandemic, Maui wildfires
Number of students at UH Hilo down 4% while most other UH campuses see gains
Although enrollment at nearly all of the campuses in the University of Hawaii system increased this fall semester compared to last year, UH Hilo is lagging behind.
US voters use trackers, cameras to deter political theft
WASHINGTON — Tired of her Kamala Harris signs disappearing from her Springfield, Missouri, front yard, Laura McCaskill taped a tracking device to one to see where it might end up.
Controversial do-over fills special seat on state water commission
In US swing states, officials brace for conspiracy theories and violence
DETROIT — With the U.S. election days just away, officials in the most competitive battleground states are bracing for misinformation, conspiracy theories, threats and possible violence.
Fatal Lahaina fire was not a crime, state AG says
New vehicles, face paint and a 1,200-foot fall: The US Army prepares for war with China
MAUNA LOA, Hawaii — Early one morning this month, 864 Army paratroopers bundled into C-17 transport planes at a base in Alaska and took off for a Great Power War exercise between three volcanic mountains on the Big Island.
Harris’ closing argument: Turn the page on Trump, and avert chaos
WASHINGTON — On Jan. 6, 2021, President Donald Trump stood onstage at the Ellipse, a park just south of the White House, and encouraged thousands of his supporters to fight to overturn an election he falsely claimed had been stolen.
A pivotal choice: Trump vs. Harris on climate change
WASHINGTON — The window is closing for nations to reduce enough of the pollution that is heating the planet to avoid the most dangerous levels of climate change, according to scientists across the world. And the outcome of next week’s presidential election could determine whether the United States and other countries meet that challenge.
Lease extension for Hilo mainstay spurs debate
A business that has operated in the Kanoelehua Industrial Area for more than 65 years narrowly avoided its state lease expiring next month.
Trump team fears damage from racist rally remarks
Donald Trump and his allies are full of bravado over his chances of victory in the closing days of the 2024 campaign. But there are signs, publicly and privately, that the former president and his team are worried that their opponents’ descriptions of him as a racist and a fascist may be breaking through to segments of voters.
