Hawai‘i News

The 98-year-old decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family instead of receiving additional medical intervention following a series of short hospital stays.

This is the first time scientists have detected new colors – or wavelengths – of aurora at Jupiter’s moons, which help determine what their atmospheres are made up of.

David Matlin will retire as the athletics director of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa on June 2, 2023 after completing an 8-year term.

The Big Island Air tour plane aborted its takeoff on Tuesday morning and hit hard without landing gear before ending up outside the safety runway area at Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport on the Big island.

“Flight 2, I don’t know if you copied, but Skymaster … just crashed off the north end,” said the air traffic controller at Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport on the Big Island.

The threat for heaviest rainfall will begin on the Big Island and then spread to the remaining islands.

The donations include $80,000 to support a graduate assistantship and efforts to foster a Native Hawaiian place of learning at the School of Ocean and Earth Science Technology.

The two fires were ignited by lightning strikes on Feb. 12 in a remote area of the Big Island where the U.S. Army has a training facility.

Daniel R. Foley (now a retired judge) reflected about representing three same-sex couples who filed the original lawsuit against the State of Hawaiʻi in 1993 as part of the Hawai‘i Equal Rights Marriage Project.

Kaua‘i has long been home to many endangered honu, or green sea turtles, and their numbers have grown in recent years – most noticeably at Poʻipū Beach Park.

Hawaiʻi Gov. Josh Green today sent additional budget requests to the State Legislature that support his long list of priorities.

Chennai, India, of all places, currently holds the Guinness World Record for the longest fresh flower lei, but now a Big Island hotel worker is leading an effort to break the record by May Day.

The 11-week correctional officers training in Hawaiʻi includes more than 400 hours of classroom time and physical training.

Now the source of the beams that formed a green curtain — which some described as resembling the green code from the movie “The Matrix” — likely is from a satellite owned by U.S. adversary China and not by NASA.

Hawai’i State Speaker of the House Scott K. Saiki introduced six of the bills on behalf of recommendations outlined in the Commission to Improve Standards of Conduct Final Report.

Aina Cachero, 32 of Hilo, was shot after two officers saw brandish a black and silver handgun while trying to run away after attempting to steal a truck, according to police.

Two new viruses are infecting hibiscus plants in Hawaiʻi and they could pose a threat to the state flower, the yellow hibiscus, according to researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

Gov. Green also plans to meet with members of Hawai‘i’s Congressional Delegation and will attend the National Governors Association Winter Meeting.

The Subaru Telescope atop Maunakea on the Big Island captures two recent celestial spectacles appearing in Hawaiʻi skies.

The Kanaloa Octopus Farm, a 4,000-square-foot wet lab that does research and public education on octopuses, also is a tourist attraction on the Big Island.