HONOLULU (AP) — The Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve reopened to the public after a nine-month break because of the coronavirus pandemic in pristine condition due in large part to its extended closure. The bay, which reopened Wednesday, has water that is now 64 percent clearer than it was ...

Inspection report on Big Island facility where 106 staff, residents infected not made public HONOLULU (AP) — A Hawaii seniors advocacy group has called on the state Department of Health to release more information about nursing home inspections after a coronavirus outbreak at a veterans ...

HONOLULU (AP)— A judge sentenced a former Honolulu police lieutenant on Tuesday to three-and-a-half years in prison and a former officer to four-and-a-half years for helping a now-retired police chief and his now-estranged ex-prosecutor wife frame a relative as part of a wide-ranging ...

HONOLULU (AP) — A group of Hawaii island organizations has distributed $7.5 million in federal funds to help pay rent and mortgages for 1,322 households during the COVID-19 economic and health crisis, officials said. The organizations used their backgrounds in homeless assistance and ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Airbnb and Expedia Group have agreed to provide Honolulu with information that will help the city enforce its laws governing vacation rentals, the companies and the city said Tuesday. Hosts will have to provide the “tax map key” property identification number issued by ...

HONOLULU (AP) — The number of coronavirus cases among Oahu’s prison population must continue to be included in local case counts to monitor available health care resources and hospital space, Honolulu’s mayor said. Mayor Kirk Caldwell responded to critics who have said outbreaks in the ...

By AUDREY McAVOY The Associated Press HONOLULU — The mayor of Kauai County said Tuesday he wants to reinstate a requirement that all travelers arriving in his jurisdiction quarantine for 14 days, regardless of whether they have obtained a negative COVID-19 test. Mayor Derek Kawakami ...

HONOLULU (AP) — The Honolulu Police Department said it would cancel special coronavirus enforcement units after allegations of overtime abuse from its officers. Department leaders were told that 59 officers on the coronavirus enforcement team had been flagged in an audit for overtime ...

HONOLULU (AP) — The annual Remembrance Day ceremony to commemorate the attack on Pearl Harbor will be closed to the public this year and streamed online as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The ceremony will begin at 7:50 a.m. on Dec. 7 at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial’s ...

HILO (AP) — A Big Island nonprofit organization has proposed the development of a regular shuttle service to the top of Mauna Kea. A meeting Tuesday of the Maunakea Management Board included a proposal to operate shuttles to the summit of Hawaii’s tallest mountain, The Hawaii ...

HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has made significant changes to a Honolulu flood control project that would increase costs and add a four-story pump station. A Corps official said updates to the Ala Wai Flood Risk Management Project focus on evacuating water in the upper ...

HONOLULU (AP) — A Hawaii development partnership plans to take over a stalled project to turn a former movie theater site into a high-rise housing complex. The partnership led by developer Stanford Carr wants to substantially revise the $800 million plan permitted by Honolulu on the site ...

HILO, Hawaii (AP) — A Hawaii island group has launched an effort to reduce the number of feral rabbits, which the campaigners say are wreaking havoc on yards and burrowing under homes. The Big Island Invasive Species Committee has asked for reports from residents who have seen the wild ...

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER The Associated Press HONOLULU — A former Honolulu prosecutor convicted of conspiracy in Hawaii’s biggest corruption case refused to come out of her jail cell to meet with her lawyer. Katherine Kealoha’s attorney, Gary Singh, said Tuesday he tried to ...

HONOLULU (AP) — A protest by neighbors of an Oahu housing development has stopped construction crews from completing the subdivision’s drainage project, which demonstrators believe will harm marine wildlife. Residents say the project in Maili on the island’s west coast will discharge ...

HONOLULU (AP) — A computer error has required the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to conduct a new lottery to choose successful applicants for housing assistance. A vendor experienced a software glitch causing the names of some applicants for Section 8 housing vouchers to be entered into ...

HONOLULU (AP) — A Hawaii school plans to change its mascot after receiving complaints the name was disrespectful to Native Americans. The Kahuku High and Intermediate School on Oahu will no longer be known as the Red Raiders, Hawaii News Now reported Monday. Principal Donna Lindsey ...

By AUDREY McAVOY The Associated Press WAIPAHU (AP) — Susan Galicha can see Honolulu’s rail cars being tested on elevated tracks just minutes from her home. Yet the Waikiki hotel housekeeper may never get to ride them to work and avoid the city’s horrendous traffic jams because the ...

HONOLULU (AP) — An assistant chief of police in Kauai settled a lawsuit against his department and Kauai County for $1.84 million. Mark Begley sued the county and the Kauai Police Department in 2016, alleging he was harassed and retaliated against by former Kauai Police Chief Darryl Perry, ...

HONOLULU (AP) — A lawyer for U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams pleaded not guilty Monday on behalf of the official who was cited by Honolulu police for being in a closed park during a trip to help Hawaii cope with a spike in coronavirus cases. Adams didn’t travel to Hawaii for the ...