Friday, November 28, 2025
Today's Paper
November 28, 2025 | 4 MIN READ
Four state lawmakers picked 95 Hawaii nonprofits to receive $49.5 million in emergency grants to offset impacts of federal cuts by the Trump administration last Thursday.
November 27, 2025 | 7 MIN READ
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The officials arrived at the secret CIA archival facility in the Washington area one morning in early April. Their mission: to seize still-classified CIA files on the...
November 23, 2025 | 9 MIN READ
Just when it appeared that President Donald Trump’s hold over his party might be slipping, his most vocal Republican antagonist seemed to back away from the fight.
November 20, 2025 | 4 MIN READ
The acting U.S. Attorney for Hawaii told the state House speaker that a public corruption probe that convicted two state legislators and a Maui County official for bribery remains “activ...
November 19, 2025 | 4 MIN READ
Hawaii’s Legislature may want to consider offering new state tax-credit funding for renewable energy expansion to at least partially offset federal withdrawals.
November 19, 2025 | 4 MIN READ
State lawmakers and voting-rights advocates gathered at the state Capitol on Thursday to oppose a recent recommendation from the Hawaii Elections Commission to eliminate universal mail-i...
November 16, 2025 | 7 MIN READ
NEW YORK — Exiled by the elite after his conviction for sexually soliciting a teenage girl and failing to rehabilitate his image as a sexual predator, an embittered Jeffrey Epstein in 20...
November 16, 2025 | 3 MIN READ
The Maunakea Stewardship and Oversight Authority took no vote Thursday but heard hours of testimony sparked by Gov. Josh Green’s recent letter outlining a path for permitting the Thirty...
November 15, 2025 | 5 MIN READ
The speaker of the state House of Representatives is asking law enforcement officials to investigate allegations that an unnamed state lawmaker accepted $35,000 in campaign contributions in Ja...
November 14, 2025 | 6 MIN READ
The state Board of Education on Wednesday approved a new four-year contract for Schools Superintendent Keith Hayashi, extending his tenure through 2029 and increasing his annual salary to $294...
November 14, 2025 | 3 MIN READ
Hawaii’s two House members voted against reopening the federal government, saying the legislation contained no guarantees to prevent insurance premiums from rising for island residents w...
November 13, 2025 | 1 MIN READ
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees has formally approved up to $6.1 million in emergency funding to support Native Hawaiian beneficiaries affected by the ongoing federal governme...
November 13, 2025 | 4 MIN READ
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed legislation ending the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, roughly two hours after the House of Representatives voted to restart disrupted f...
November 13, 2025 | 6 MIN READ
The state Legislature will be asked to ban wildly popular mail-in voting and return to one-day, in-person voting as a majority of Hawaii Elections Commission members continue to echo election...
November 12, 2025 | 2 MIN READ
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the apparent near end of the nation’s longest government shutdown amounted to a “very big victory” for Repub...
November 12, 2025 | 1 MIN READ
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday extended a pause on a judge’s order that required President Donald Trump’s administration to fully fund food aid for 42 m...
November 12, 2025 | 3 MIN READ
About a dozen local Filipino young adults demonstrated outside the Philippine Consulate in Nuuanu Saturday as part of an international activist organization confronting Philippine government p...
November 11, 2025 | 1 MIN READ
LIHUE — The County Charter Review Commission is considering several changes to the County Charter for the 2026 General Election ballot and invites public comment at its next meeting on N...
November 4, 2025 | 2 MIN READ
LIHUE — Tyler Saito was installed on Monday as the new County Attorney, according to an announcement by Mayor Derek S.K. Kawakami.
October 28, 2025 | 5 MIN READ
Three House-led committees comprising state and county governments, private developers and environmental interests, among others, face tight December deadlines to make recommendations before t...