For the first time, legislators in the state House will be addressing their leader as “Madame Speaker,” after Kauai Rep. Nadine Nakamura became first woman to hold the top position. First elected to ...

On a monster night in Manoa, center Tanner Christensen boosted the Hawaii basketball team to an 80-69 victory over San Jose State in Sunday’s second round of the Outrigger Resorts Rainbow Classic in ...

A 21-year-old Kailua-Kona man who pleaded no contest to manslaughter in August for a 2022 traffic crash that killed a 63-year-old woman told a judge Nov. 4 he has “a heavy heart, fully aware of the ...

Hawaii County could change how it defines “affordable rental,” which could raise the cost of rent for some low-income residents.

A proposal by the Hawaii County Council to revamp how the county regulates short-term vacation rentals could start again from scratch.

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Not everyone expecting a strong night for former President Donald Trump was a Republican. I’m the former vice chair of the Oahu County Democrats, and I did, too. Now an independent, it bemused me to ...

Erin Kanno Uehara, Choco Le‘a’s owner and chocolate connections officer, still remembers the shock of having to temporarily shut down her Manoa-­based chocolate business and lay off 22 workers at the ...

I’ve tried to call multiple times to different numbers that I received from the South Korean National Assembly, and I was just passed on to from person to person. … I spoke to an immigration official ...

Over 200 new units could be added to an affordable housing development in Hilo under a proposal by the Hawaii Public Housing Authority.

He played in his 134th career game, tying him with Rocky Freitas for 10th among players born in Hawaii. >> Ka‘imi Fairbairn, Texans kicker: Tied an NFL single- season record with his 11th field goal ...

The public is being warned about bad actors “spoofing” phone numbers from the Hilo Courthouse (Hale Kaulike) in an attempt to ...