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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 | 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 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 | 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 11, 2025 | 7 MIN READ

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

May 11, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

Hawaii will receive $700 million in a landmark settlement from pharmaceutical giants Bristol Myers Squibb and Sanofi following more than a decade of litigation over the blood thinner Plavix an...

May 11, 2025 | 8 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — Top economic officials from the United States and China concluded their first day of meetings in Geneva on Saturday evening, setting up a second day of high-stakes negotiati...

May 10, 2025 | 9 MIN READ

The American dream — often idealized by the house and white picket fence — has been debated, pondered and relentlessly pursued by those who have lived in the United States for gene...

May 10, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

University of Hawaii economists expect the state economy to begin gradually contracting later this year due to federal policy impacts hurting tourism, employment and personal income.

May 10, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

Federal agents arrested 50 people this week on Oahu, Maui and Hawaii island for violating immigration laws due to convictions for crimes including murder, domestic violence and drug possession...

May 9, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy unveiled a plan on Thursday to ask Congress for billions of dollars to modernize the aging U.S. air traffic control system to addres...

May 9, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

Federal agents served search warrants, detained and arrested more than two dozen people in Kona on suspicion of immigration law violations, and detained a group of Maui teachers from the Phili...

May 9, 2025 | 8 MIN READ

On the steps of Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago, a group of excited sixth graders dressed in Catholic school uniforms began jumping up and down. “Long live the pope!” they chanted....

May 8, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — A federal judge said Wednesday that the deportation of immigrants by the Trump administration to Libya would be in violation of a court order he issued in March, creating a...

May 8, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

Some 37% of Hawaii businesses said tariffs make them “very concerned,” while another 40% are “somewhat concerned,” adding up to a whopping 77% of businesses feeling tar...

May 8, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested China initiated upcoming senior-level trade talks between the two countries and said he was not willing to cut U...