Hawai'i State News

While Hawaiʻi is known as the Rainbow State and has been called the Rainbow Capital of the World, a complete rainbow is a once-in-a-lifetime sight for most people.

“[T]he House reaffirms that ethics reform legislation sets the tone in ensuring the highest standards of integrity among our elected officials,” said the committee’s chair, Rep. David A. Tarnas of the Big Island.

Kaua‘i Island Utility Cooperative – the county’s electricity provider – is planning to rehabilitate existing reservoirs, roads and irrigation systems throughout the West Side with project partner AES, a Fortune 500 global energy company.

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.

The mysterious blue swirl and green laser light show captured by the Subaru-Asahi Star Camera at the Subaru Telescope atop Maunakea on the Big Island inspired a lot of different ideas as to what they could be, but the explanations aren’t as out of this world as some might think.

New Hawaiʻi Land Trust president and CEO ʻOlu Campbell previously worked as the community and government relations manager for Kamehameha Schools.

Researchers at the Health and Stranding Lab spent 15-hours trying to find clues about the death of a 56-foot-long sperm whale that washed up Friday on the reef in front of Lydgate Park on Kaua’i.

An estimated 700 gallons of diesel fuel spilled at the Maui Space Surveillance Complex located at the summit of Haleakalā. Authorities pointed toward a mechanical issue in which a diesel fuel pump for an onsite backup generator failed to shut off on Sunday night. The spill was identified on Monday morning.

The Big Island nonprofit will use the funds to improve access to quality and equitable health care through providing clinical assessments, case management, psychiatric services and substance abuse treatment.

Like most indigenous languages throughout the world, the Hawaiian language faced a significant decline due to colonization.

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.

The Hawai’i State Public Safety Department has hired a consultant to review security camera systems at each of the state’s jails and prisons and repair nonfunctional devices or replace them.

The sperm whale’s burial location on Kauaʻi is not being publicized to avoid the taking of body parts of a protected species, which is illegal under federal and state laws.

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 a bill introduced by Big Island state Rep. Jeanné Kapela.

Three excavators have been working to try to remove the 56-foot-long, 120,000-pound deceased sperm whale from a beach on Kaua’i.

Little fire ants are native to Central and South America, but have colonized the globe. Kaua‘i is now grappling with several back-to-back infestations.

A Laysan Albatross was rescued at Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge on Kaua’i in what experts believe was due to a pig destroying her egg and causing yoke to get on her feathers.

Native Hawaiian practitioners have been conducting cultural protocols as heavy equipment is attempting to move the 56-foot, 60-ton carcass onto the beach.