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The city’s Department of Planning and Permitting is again under scrutiny, this time for having given approvals to a...

PAHOA, Hawaii >> Driving south from Hilo on Highway 130, it’s hard to miss the column of gray smoke billowing from what...

Many know her as a descendent of Hawaiian royalty, a philanthropist and an activist known for freely giving to Native...

Two rat-sniffing dogs found three areas last week where rats could still be living on Lehua island in the latest operation...

Question: I regularly play the Ewa Villages, West Loch and Pali golf courses on Sundays and have noticed that the greens...

Registered voters on the north shore of Kauai who were directly impacted by flooding in April will be mailed absentee...

HILO >> With a survey finding no significant environmental impact, the state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands is moving...

Former church outreach worker Michael Terui was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison for manufacturing child pornography...

HILO>> For more than 20 years, Hawaiian Tropicals Direct grew numerous varieties of orchids on 10 acres in Kapoho, but as...

KALAPANA, Hawaii >> It’s early evening not far from “End of Road” in what used to be Kalapana Village until 1990, when the...

One day after arguments broke out and tensions increased in a crowd waiting to buy Bruno Mars tickets at Aloha Stadium,...

Longtime Honolulu sportscaster John Noland died Friday from injuries he sustained when he was assaulted in Chinatown last...

Whatever happens when tickets for the second Bruno Mars show go on sale this morning, one thing appears certain: A good...

Three longtime employees of Abigail Kawananakoa are attempting to step into the legal dispute involving the $215 million...

Hawaii County Mayor Harry Kim, who suffered his fourth heart attack just before the May 3 eruption of Kilauea Volcano, had...

KEAAU, Hawaii >> Randy and Kathleen Kalauli still looked a bit shellshocked when they showed up Friday morning on opening...

State officials have tagged approximately 90 canoes, catamarans and other vessels lining Lanikai Beach with notices that...

As much as I loved swimming with millions of lovely, pulsing salps last week, their gelatinous bodies obscured the hard and...

Power was restored to Iroquois Point late Thursday following an outage that lasted some 31 hours. Hawaiian Electric Co. was...

The state agreed to pay $10.25 million to settle a federal lawsuit brought by the Hawaii Disability Rights Center and the...

Even as astronomers await a verdict on construction of a huge telescope on Mauna Kea, they are still trying to figure out...

She says it is not safe to visit Kilauea but that almost all of the Big Island and other destinations in the state have not...

The slopes of a simmering volcano on the Big Island have for decades attracted those who can’t afford the pricier areas of...