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April 24, 2025 | 8 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — For a president who advertises himself as a paramount dealmaker, the next 11 weeks will be a pivotal test, as his advisers race to accomplish what no other administration ha...

April 24, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

A Kona Circuit Court jury last week found in a civil trial that a Waimea businessman sexually abused a 12-year-old boy decades ago.

April 23, 2025 | 7 MIN READ

Hours after swearing an oath to defend the U.S. Constitution on January 20, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing his attorney general to scour the Justice Department and...

April 23, 2025 | 8 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arrived at the Pentagon in January with almost no government experience and huge ambitions to remake the way the military was being run....

April 23, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

“Start by doing what’s necessary, then do what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”

April 22, 2025 | 7 MIN READ

Months into his papacy in 2013, Pope Francis was asked about gay priests, and he responded, “Who am I to judge?” Across the United States, Catholics and non-Catholics alike took a...

April 22, 2025 | 8 MIN READ

Recent high-profile cases of child torture and neglect that led to the deaths of two children on Oahu have sharpened the focus for police officers and prosecuting attorneys pushing Hawaii lawm...

April 21, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

The 62nd Annual Merrie Monarch Festival kicked off on Sunday with the Ho‘olaule‘a at Hilo’s Afook-Chinen Civic Auditorium.

April 21, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

A draft stewardship plan for the protection of a culturally and ecologically vital coastline in the Ka‘u district is being formally introduced to the public through a virtual meeting fro...

April 21, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

The Army has released its finalized environmental impact statement on the prospect of retaining 22,750 acres of state-owned land at the Pohakuloa Training Area on Hawaii Island after its lease...

April 20, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

A new bill outlining a registration process for hosted transient vacation rentals, or TVRs will be introduced May 6 during Hawaii County Council committee meetings in Kailua-Kona.

April 20, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

About 250 students from five East Hawaii High Schools were present Thursday at the University of Hawaii at Hilo’s Performing Arts Center to hear oral arguments before the Hawaii Supreme...

April 20, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

Hawaii County still anticipates construction to restore lava-ravaged Pohoiki Road in lower Puna will begin before the end of June.

April 19, 2025 | 8 MIN READ

With a big win for school vouchers in Texas in the early hours of Thursday morning, the private-school choice movement conquered the last major Republican-led state.

April 19, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

The University of Hawaii announced Thursday it has lost $30 million in federal funding for research, just as the school sees the number of revoked student visas “literally (change) by th...

April 19, 2025 | 7 MIN READ

It is unclear how the Hawai‘i Tourism Authority board will deal with concerns over late payments to contractors and state probes to determine whether the agency committed procurement or...