Hawai‘i News

Through the first three episodes of the CBS reality competition show, Ilima Shim is giving her 11 fellow contestants a run for their money.

Three visitors described to be in their 20s were transported by Maui Emergency Medical Service for treatment of injuries sustained after being knocked down by a big wave at Olivine Pools in Kahakuloa.

The Merrie Monarch Festival will be back to its full glory in April 2023, celebrating its 60th anniversary of showcasing hula and Hawaiian culture — and the world can’t wait.

A 28-inch live ball python was turned in to the Honolulu Zoo Wednesday afternoon under the state’s Amnesty Program.

Pro surfer Matahi Drollet wiped out at Jaws on Maui and broke his board, but a local found the tail piece and is returning it to him because keeping the fins of somebody else is “bad luck.”

The funding from the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research will be used to develop and advance energy, marine and other blue economy technologies and opportunities aimed at strengthening the state’s economy and workforce.

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.