Hawai'i State News

The request for a federal disaster declaration comes on the heels of one-day, onsite inspection Jan. 5 by an 11-person team of state and federal emergency management officials of damages and impacts caused by the eruption of Mauna Loa.

New DNA evidence in the case excluded Albert “Ian” Schweitzer, whose conviction was overturned Tuesday. DNA found on key evidence belongs to another unknown individual.

House Bill 550 would would require the Hawai‘i Department of Education to offer training for teachers, educational officers and school-based behavioral health specialists on sex trafficking prevention and response.

The 2023 Environmental Legislative Caucus package includes bills to establish green fees, create a tax credit for cesspool conversion and implement a soil health initiative.

Fifty years ago nēnē, a rare goose and the Hawaiʻi State bird, was a species on the brink of extinction, with fewer than 30 geese in the wild statewide. They are still endangered and federally protected.

Hawaiʻi Gov. Josh Green delivered his inaugural State of the State address Monday to a joint session of the 32nd Hawai‘i State Legislature, pledging to take on housing, climate change, homelessness and poverty; and he presented his plan about how to tackle these long-standing, challenging issues.

Oʻahu lifeguard Luke Shepardson won the Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational held Sunday at Waimea Bay on Oʻahu’s North Shore.

The U.S. Geological Survey’s rain gauge at Kawainui Stream had the highest monthly total of 15.03 inches, or 112% of average, and the highest daily total of 9.23 inches on Dec. 19.

The public can watch the speech live in person at the Capitol in Honolulu or via several outlets on the internet.

This is the second time this season the 6-foot-11 sophomore forward-center for the Vulcans has received the honor.

As the 2023 State Legislative session ramps up, will policymakers tackle a crisis of violence against Native Hawaiian women and girls?

The princess, who died on Dec. 11, 2022 at age 96, will lie in state at ‘Iolani Palace on Sunday for the public memorial and on Monday there will be her private funeral at Mauna ‘Ala.

Interim superintendents at four complex areas in the state were approved by the Hawai‘i State Board of Education to permanently fill the positions.

Current and former councilmembers Luke Evslin and Mason Chock, as well as nonprofit director Nikki Cristobal, are in the running.

The interagency warrant sweep on Maui was conducted between Jan. 9-11, 2023 by the Maui Police Department’s Crime Reduction Unit, Special Response Team and the U.S. Marshals Service.

Hawaiʻi Attorney General Anne Lopez joined a coalition of 15 attorneys general supporting the constitutionality of New York’s concealed-carry laws by asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to reverse a lower court decision that preliminarily enjoined certain aspects of New York’s Concealed Carry Improvement Act, also known as CCIA.

Governor Josh Green, M.D. has ordered that the United States flag and the Hawaiʻi state flag be flown at half-staff in honor of Honolulu veteran State and City legislator Ron Menor, who died unexpectedly Monday after a medical emergency.

For nearly three years, the COVID-19 pandemic forced the Hawaiʻi State House and Senate to operate solemnly online, but Wednesday the public was back and the mood was festive.

In recent weeks, the U.S. Coast Guard has continued to monitor a Russian vessel, believed to be an intelligence gathering ship, off the coast of the Hawaiian Islands.

Jonathan Taum, 50, the officer who supervised the beating of the Hawaiʻi Community Correctional Center inmate and orchestrated the conspiracy to cover it up, received the biggest sentence: 12 years.