Hawai‘i News

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.

The study on Kīlauea is using a passive geophysical technique that measures tiny perturbations in the natural Earth magnetic and electric fields to map out how well the rocks beneath our feet conduct electricity in order to reveal the volcano’s subsurface magmatic plumbing.

On the summit of Haleakalā, an estimated 700 gallons of diesel fuel spilled at the Maui Space Surveillance Complex, according to the U.S. Pacific Air Forces.

Hawaiʻi Island police are investigating a shooting that happened on Jan. 28 at a home after an officer was rushed by four pit bulls and fatally shot one of them.

Baxter and his team were able to obtain new and high-precision constraints on the matter distribution of the universe across a wide range of cosmic history.

Despite the ruling by a Hawaiʻi judge lifting an injunction, aquarium fishing along the Big Island’s western shore is not automatically allowed.

Jim Leahey announced sports for the university for over 40 years.

During WHO’s International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on Friday, officials concurred the pandemic continues to constitute a public health emergency of international concern.

The legislative priorities of the Keiki Caucus for 2023 include creating an Erinʻs Law Task Force.