KAIILUA-KONA (AP) — Gov. David Ige has proposed building a $35 million regional biocontrol facility to research ways to control invasive species that threaten the state’s economy and natural environment. Ige advocated for the facility while addressing the Western Governors Association at ...
Tulsi Gabbard said last month that she plans to back Pelosi HONOLULU (AP) — Ed Case, who is returning to Congress next month, is supporting Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s bid to be speaker of the U.S. House. The Democrat told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser that he voted for Pelosi during a ...
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER The Associated Press HONOLULU — A man who spent decades in a state psychiatric hospital for killing a woman wants to go to trial on escape and identity theft charges after authorities said he fled the facility and flew to California before being captured, his ...
HILO (AP) — The operators of a Hawaii island geothermal power plant have started restoring road access to the property cut off by lava from the Kilauea volcano eruption. Big Island Mayor Harry Kim authorized a vegetation removal and grading permit for Puna Geothermal Venture to clear lava ...
KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — The Hawaii Department of Education is looking for a vendor to provide beef to schools as it continues efforts to locally source food for student lunches. West Hawaii Today reports the department’s School Food Services Branch issued a request for proposals last ...
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and AUDREY McAVOY The Associated Press HONOLULU — A Hawaii Air National Guard civilian contractor was in serious condition Wednesday after his plane crashed off the coast of Honolulu during a military exercise, authorities said. The pilot of the Hawker ...
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER The Associated Press HONOLULU — No single employee was directly responsible for the escape of a man from a Hawaii psychiatric hospital, a state investigation found, but questions remain about how he was able to walk out of the facility and fly to California, ...
LIHUE (AP) — Rescuers over the weekend called off their search for a California woman swept out to sea from a picturesque but dangerous spot on Kauai’s north shore. The Garden Island newspaper reported 23-year-old Yayun Cheng was the seventh drowning victim in Kauai this year. Cheng ...
KAILUA-KONA (AP) — The state Department of Agriculture is importing four brown tree snakes to be used to train dogs to detect the dangerously invasive species and hopefully prevent the snakes from establishing themselves in the islands. Jonathan Ho, acting manager of the department’s ...
HONOLULU (AP) — The world’s oldest known wild seabird has laid another egg. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says the Laysan albatross named Wisdom appeared at her nest at Midway Atoll National Wildlife refuge last month. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports biologists confirm she laid ...
HONOLULU (AP) — Opponents of a giant telescope planned for Hawaii’s tallest mountain have vowed to keep fighting even after the legal battle over the $1.4 billion project appears to have ended. Dozens of University of Hawaii faculty, staff and students rallied at the Honolulu campus ...
HILO (AP) — The Hawaii Board of Geographic Names has begun taking recommendations to name the Big Island’s new 60-foot lava cone. The state board is planning to take suggestions from the public and Hawaiian cultural practitioners to find a moniker for fissure 8, which formed during the ...
No survivor from the USS Arizona attended the ceremony this year By AUDREY McAVOY The Associated Press PEARL HARBOR — About 20 survivors gathered at Pearl Harbor on Friday to pay tribute to the thousands of men lost in the Japanese attack 77 years ago. They joined dignitaries, ...
By CALEB JONES The Associated Press HONOLULU — Retired U.S. Navy Cmdr. Don Long was alone on an anchored military seaplane in the middle of a bay across the island from Pearl Harbor when Japanese warplanes started striking Hawaii on December 7, 1941, watching from afar as the attack ...
HONOLULU (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii has filed a federal class-action lawsuit on behalf of two female high school athletes, claiming they are being unequally treated based on their gender. The lawsuit filed Thursday against the state Department of Education and the ...
HONOLULU (AP) — More than 75 years after nearly 2,400 members of the U.S. military were killed in the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, some who died on Dec. 7, 1941, are finally being laid to rest in cemeteries across the United States. In 2015, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency ...
HONOLULU (AP) — The death of a former Jacksonville Jaguars offensive lineman last month has been ruled an accident, Hawaii authorities said. The Honolulu Medical Examiner’s office has determined that the cause of death for 38-year-old Vince Manuwai was acute ecstasy intoxication. The ...
By AUDREY McAVOY The Associated Press HONOLULU — Hawaii Lt. Gov. Josh Green has appointed a former carpenters’ union official to be his chief of staff months after a super PAC funded by the union spent over $1 million supporting his candidacy in the Democratic Party primary. Brooke ...
HILO (AP) — The Hawaii Supreme Court is letting stand its decision that upholds the construction permit for a giant telescope planned for the state’s tallest mountain. The court filed an order last week denying opponents’ motion for it to reconsider the ruling on the telescope project ...
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER The Associated Press HONOLULU — A soldier based in Hawaii was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in prison for trying to help the Islamic State group. Sgt. 1st Class Ikaika Kang, 35, pleaded guilty in August to four counts of attempting to provide material ...