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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 | 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 8, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson has dropped one of the most aggressive options the GOP was considering to cut Medicaid costs to help pay for President Donald Trump’s domestic age...

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...

May 8, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The second-seeded Hawaii men’s volleyball team ended practice at a recreation gym on the campus of Ohio State on Tuesday singing a happy birthday song to Kristian...

May 7, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

With statistics showing the state of Hawaii imports about 90% of the food its residents consume, a pair of bills with the goal of improving food security has made it through the Legislature an...

May 7, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

The U.S.-led trade war with China has delivered a hard initial blow to one of Hawaii’s largest companies, ocean cargo transportation firm Matson Inc.

May 7, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney visited the White House on Tuesday for his first talks with Donald Trump and bluntly told the U.S. president that Canada would never be f...

May 7, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

The U.S. Department of Education said Native Hawaiian, American Indian and Alaska Native history will not be categorized as “diversity, equity and inclusion” or “critical rac...

May 6, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

Hawaii nonprofits stand to receive a lot more grant funding from the Legislature this year due to expectations of federal aid cuts by President Donald Trump.

May 6, 2025 | 7 MIN READ

SAN FRANCISCO — Boatloads of tourists traipsed around Alcatraz Island on Monday morning and peered into tiny prison cells, learning about the most notorious inmates who stayed there &mda...

May 6, 2025 | 8 MIN READ

When Amy Feeley-Austin of Kona was going through a tough time, Medicaid was a lifesaver that provided health care for her two young children.

May 5, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

President Donald Trump said in an interview that aired Sunday that he did not know whether every person on American soil was entitled to due process, despite constitutional guarantees, and com...

May 5, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

Tourists — and local residents — who book hotel rooms and cruise ship cabins will begin providing $90 million to $100 million annually in new funding for Hawaii to adapt to climate...