Hawaii News

Wednesday is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. It is commemorated during National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, which has been observed each year in January since 2010.

The twin-engine, turbine-powered airplane crashed into the Maui Channel late on the night of Dec. 15 off the coast of Kaupo, Maui.

New Hawai’i State Attorney General Anne Lopez said she decided that the continued pursuit of the cases of protesters of the Thirty Meter Telescope was not in the best interest of the people of the state.

Specialized, highly-trained federal and state workers head out on a search and rescue mission when a report of a humpback whale entanglement is received.

Hawaiʻi Gov. Josh Green has established a Climate Advisory Panel and is re-committing the state to the U.S. Climate Alliance.

A man recently urinated into the home of Pele, one of the most active volcanoes in the world.

Of the four finalists for Hawaiʻi County police chief, Benjami Moszkowicz, a 22-year veteran with the rank of major at Honolulu Police Department, was the only person with no law enforcement experience on the Big Island.

Real-time views of an eruption site are a vital source of information for emergency managers, so Hawaiian Volcano Observatory webcams on the Big Island are one of the most important tools in an eruption crisis.

This new Kīlauea eruption is viewable from almost all open areas around the caldera in Hawaiian Volcanoes National Park, but there are some parts of the park that are closed to protect breeding and nesting nēnē.

“As we have seen in Hawai‘i, Native speaker-led language programs have proven that culturally based instruction is key to revitalizing and maintaining indigenous knowledge and traditions,” Sen. Brian Schatz said.

Marcio Freire was surfing 40- to 50-foot faces when he caught a wave a little too deep and it swallowed him at Nazaré on the central coast of Portugal.

The Hawaiʻi Life Flight air ambulance was on its way to Waimea to pick up a patient when it crashed with three crew members aboard.

Lava flows have inundated much of the crater floor, which is nearly 300 acres

The report by the University of Hawaiʻi Economic Research Organization is based on responses from 1,627 adult Hawaiʻi residents to a survey administered in partnership with the Pacific Alliance Against COVID-19 during fall 2022.

On Tuesday when the 118th Congress convened, U.S. Rep. Ed Case (HI-01) began his fifth term and U.S. Rep. Jill Tokuda (HI-02) began her rookie term in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The Lānaʻi Culture & Heritage Center celebrates the new year with the opening of a virtual audio and visual exhibit that takes visitors on a journey to explore Lānaʻi’s past as a way to better understand the island of today. 

The Hawai’i State House Committee on Finance will hold its first informational briefings of 2023, during which various state department representatives will provide updates and requests on their budget proposals.

U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) won reelection to a second full term last November, garnering more than 71% of the vote – the largest margin of victory by any Senate candidate in 2022.

This year, a computer science club at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa will offer a free online or in-person 3-month introductory coding class for 6th to 12th grade students on how to create websites.

The earthquake was at a depth of 12 miles below sea level; and it occurred in a region of stress interaction between Mauna Loa and Kīlauea volcanoes.