Hawaii News

Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, introduced legislation Thursday to reauthorize the construction of a Native American veterans memorial on the national Mall.

Construction is helping to drive economic growth in all four Hawaii counties, according to a county forecast by the University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization.

Gov. Neil Abercrombie announced this week that nearly $26 million will go toward various public housing program site improvements.

Photographer Miles Morgan took the concept of living on the edge to the extreme - and the experience ended up costing him a pair of shoes and some of his equipment.

The Navy will name an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in honor of the late Hawaii Sen.

Malcolm Ashlee Clark Carter May 10, 2013 Malcolm Ashlee Clark Carter, 35, of Waianae died at home.

Two years after tests first indicated the presence of a sexually transmitted disease in a handful of Hawaii Island cattle, state officials imposed a statewide quarantine order requiring testing of new dairy and beef bulls brought to the state and moved from one herd to another.

An unexpected bid for a bankrupt Big Island brewery has postponed a court auction and set up a possible bidding war for the microbrewery.

H awaiki Rising by Sam Low tells the epic saga of voyaging on the Hokulea , which, as every Island schoolchild should know, is a traditionally constructed Hawaiian sailing vessel that is steered by observing natural elements, without instruments or maps.

The feeling of being an outsider in one's beloved homeland is the theme underpinning Pamela Frierson's fluid and honest nature writing.

A deeply researched and careful weaving of previously unheard voices can be found in Mai Lepera, adding another layer about leprosy patients exiled to settlements at Makanalua peninsula in the 19th century.

Calling this big fat novel Hawaii was bound to raise eyebrows. Hey, come run to the schoolyard to watch Mark Panek throw down! Pow! Right in the kisser of that other big fat novel named Hawaii , by whatsisname, the one everyone loves to put down that for better or worse became the siren call for mainland millions to take a jumbo jet to Waikiki.

Greenwood, who is retiring from the university in September, referred to Kim's telephone call in an interview broadcast by Hawaii News Now on Monday in which she described her deteriorating relationships with the state Legislature and Gov.

Here's a link to the live web cam on the summit of near 13,800 foot Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Hilo is at the end of the line but is finally about to get a full serving of Hawaii Public Radio.

Chef Roy Choi believes food more than anything else brings people from different cultures together.

The state Department of Education is scaling back a move to provide extra learning time for students at struggling schools.

Three Hawaii tour guides and businesses and a Maui writer were recognized at the Hawaii Ecotourism Association's annual awards luncheon for their commitment to sustainable travel practices and outstanding efforts in educating Hawaii's visitors.

Hawaii Island is home to most of the 192 bed and breakfasts legally operating in the state, according to Hawaii Tourism Authority's 2012 Visitor Plant Inventory data.

HILO >> Biking to the top of the 13,796-foot Mauna Kea volcano might seem like a daunting undertaking for many people, but it's just another adventure for a globetrotting Swiss couple with their four children.