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May 15, 2025 | 8 MIN READ

CAPTAIN COOK — On the mist-wreathed slopes of Mauna Loa, where the earth is rich with volcanic memory and the Pacific glimmers in the distance, a coveted coffee — Kona — is c...

May 15, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

The state’s biennium budget bill conveyed to Gov. Josh Green includes $2.5 million to fund the Puna Alternate Route Study.

May 15, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

A settlement has been reached in the case of a house built on the wrong lot in Hawaiian Paradise Park.

May 15, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, is moving the assembly of the president’s daily intelligence brief from the CIA headquarters to her own complex, according to offici...

May 14, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — As he called to order a marathon committee session to consider Medicaid cuts and other critical pieces of Republicans’ sweeping domestic policy bill, Rep. Brett Guthri...

May 14, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

Leeward areas of the Big Island already are showing the shift toward the summer wet season, but the windward side, which is entering the dry season, continues to be drier than normal.

May 14, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

A federal judge on Tuesday opened a path for the Trump administration to move forward with deporting a Venezuelan man under the Alien Enemies Act, a wartime law, but ruled that it must first g...

May 13, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

The state Department of Transportation intends to use existing revenue streams to dramatically scale up an automated camera system to ticket drivers who speed or run red lights — even th...

May 13, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

The United States and China took a step Monday to defuse the trade war between the world’s two largest economies, agreeing to temporarily reduce the punishing tariffs they have imposed o...

May 13, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

A federal trial is set to start today for two Hilo attorneys accused of receiving Hawaii County affordable housing credits and land conveyances worth at least $10.98 million, with no intention...

May 13, 2025 | 9 MIN READ

The largest wave of displaced Maui fire survivors, who are losing their temporary hotel housing this month, will move into Ka La‘i Ola, a modular housing project mauka of the Lahaina Civ...

May 12, 2025 | 8 MIN READ

The year-old state Department of Law Enforcement would get new funding and an increased mandate to crack down on illegal fireworks under pending legislation, which has Pearl City resident Larr...

May 12, 2025 | 8 MIN READ

The Trump administration plans to accept a luxury Boeing 747-8 plane as a donation from the Qatari royal family that will be upgraded to serve as Air Force One, which would make it one of the...

May 12, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that the United States had made “substantial progress” in talks with China after a weekend of meetings in Geneva, an...

May 12, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — The U.S. federal disaster agency FEMA has sharply reduced training for state and local emergency managers ahead of the start of the hurricane season on June 1, according to...

May 11, 2025 | 7 MIN READ

CORRECTION: A previous version of this story had an incorrect lease price. The Tribune-Herald regrets the error.