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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 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 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 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 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 | 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 | 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...