Hawai'i State News

“Despite our best efforts to navigate the balloons to land and recover them, both flights had to be terminated over the Pacific Ocean and unfortunately recovery was not feasible,” Sierra Nevada Corporation said in an email to Big Island Now.

Tuesday’s sign-waving event featured Sex Abuse Treatment Center partners including Honolulu’s Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, police and more.

Several plant species previously thought extinct were rediscovered through field surveys last year.

State Epidemiologist Dr. Sarah Kemble said hospitals still have capacity.

Hawaiʻi Gov. Josh Green last week signed seven “Good Government” bills into law to advance the goals of ethics, lobbying and campaign spending laws in Hawai‘i.

The Hawaiʻi monthly test of the all-hazard Statewide Outdoor Warning Siren System is scheduled for April 3 at 11:45 a.m.

When Yachiyo Hamada and Jeanette Rhamsey were born in March 1922, Warren Harding was president, Wallace Farrington was governor of the Territory of Hawai‘i and Babe Ruth had already signed a three-year contract with the New York Yankees at $52,000 a year. Later that month, the U.S. Navy’s first aircraft carrier, USS Langley, was commissioned and the first airplane landed at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Multiple media outlets, entertainment blogs and social media accounts report that Big Island resident Maia Keahola will play Lilo in the live-action adaptation of Disney’s 2002 animated film “Lilo & Stitch.”

Researchers have speculated about what ‘Oumuamua is since the reddish cigar-shaped galactic guest was first observed nearly six years ago by the Pan-STARRS1 telescope atop Haleakalā on Maui.

It’s been a little more than three weeks since the lava supply to the lake within Halema‘uma‘u crater at the summit of Kīlauea volcano on the Big Island ceased March 7 and the eruption paused.

Eric Roberts previously served as deputy superintendent of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument since September 2019, where he led a team of policy and program specialists in the day-to-day management.

The University of Hawai’i at Mānoa’s research team, led by professor Tung Hoang, hopes its findings will help cystic fibrosis patients avoid hospitalizations and increase their life expectancy.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts the demand for social workers will increase 12 percent in the next 10 years.

Hawaiʻi Gov. Josh Green has ordered the U.S. flag and the Hawaiʻi state flag to be flown at half-staff at the State Capitol, all state offices and agencies, and at the Hawaiʻi National Guard to honor the shooting victims at a Nashville elementary school.

A 26-year-old male hiker from California who was reported missing in Waimea Canyon was found early Tuesday morning by Kauaʻi firefighters.

The aerial anomaly was no soaring cephalopod. It also wasn’t a Chinese spy balloon or Batman looking for his parking spot, as suggested in other social media posts and replies. The reality behind the object’s appearance that spurred all the chatter is far less imaginative than scientific.

Lilinoe Kahalepauole-Bustamonte and her husband helped law enforcement retrieve a nēnē gosling that was abducted from a Hilo state park in an onion bag and have it reunited with its parents.

U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono on Thursday during a meeting of the Senate Armed Services Committee questioned Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of the U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command, about the need for a robust, unified plan for missile defense of Hawai‘i.

The freshmen class of the Hawaiʻi House of Representatives Majority came together Thursday to share their experiences since being elected. The group also shared highlights of several bills that crossed over to the state Senate and their personal experiences serving in office settling in at the Capitol in Honolulu.

Don’t be fooled. While Pele’s hairs are shiny and elusive, featherlight and golden brown, they are strands of volcanic glass, and they can pose a serious hazard.