All the headlines from our Hawaii Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 27 2018 // Hawaii is giving a $10 million grant to the Big Island to help jump-start recovery efforts following the Kilauea volcano eruption.The Hawaii County Council adopted a resolution last week to accept the funding, the Hawaii...
Nov 14 2018 // A North Carolina couple has filed a class-action lawsuit saying they should have been warned about a Hawaii hotel workers’ strike before their honeymoon.The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Dr. Ovais Inamullah and...
Nov 5 2018 // A 33-year-old pilot, formerly of Kemah, Texas, was sentenced in early October to more than five years in prison and ordered to repay nearly $1 million in an insurance fraud-related case.Theodore Robert Wright III...
Oct 26 2018 // A private school system in Hawaii has paid $65 million to 32 people who sued the institution for the sexual abuse perpetrated decades ago by a psychiatric consultant.The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported the payment...
Oct 23 2018 // A survey of Big Island farmers has found that they suffered nearly $28 million in damages because of the months-long eruption earlier this year of the Kilauea volcano, the Hawaii Tribune Herald reported.The survey of 46...
Oct 19 2018 // A Big Island panel has advanced a measure that would prohibit short-term vacation rentals in residential and agricultural zones.The Hawaii County Council Planning Committee approved the measure’s fifth draft this...
Oct 17 2018 // A 33-year-old pilot, formerly of Kemah, Texas, was sentenced in early October to more than five years in prison and ordered to repay nearly $1 million in an insurance fraud-related case.Theodore Robert Wright III...
Oct 16 2018 // Hawaii Insurance Commissioner Gordon Ito has appointed Andrew Kurata deputy commissioner and captive insurance administrator for the department of commerce and consumer affairs insurance division.Kurata previously held the...
Sep 19 2018 // The state Department of Transportation says pedestrian fatalities have increased by 525 percent from the same time last year.The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported 25 pedestrians have died as of Sept. 13 this year compared...
Sep 13 2018 // A gradually weakening tropical storm hit Hawaii on Wednesday, soaking a part of Maui and sending gusts of wind that toppled trees and cancelled flights at a number of airports in the state.Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa urged...
Sep 4 2018 // Officials in Honolulu, Hawaii have agreed to a $2 million settlement to a woman who was hit by a car while crossing a street in 2014. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported the city approved the payment last month to Mariah...
Aug 29 2018 // A.M. Best is expecting Hurricane Lane to be considered more of a flood event than a wind event.As a result, the storm that buffeted Hawaii should bring a potential triggering of the National Flood Insurance Program’s...
Aug 27 2018 // A once-powerful hurricane twisted and drifted away from Hawaii, leaving behind heavily saturated ground on the Big Island and many residents on other islands relieved it didn’t wreak more havoc.Firefighters on the...
Aug 24 2018 // Hurricane Lane has brought record rainfall to Hawaii, where flooding threatens $8 billion of homes and few can remember such torrential downpours.In 12 hours, 16.48 inches of rain fell on the Big Island of Hawaii and daily...
Aug 24 2018 // As a Category 4 hurricane roared toward Hawaii, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said it’s learned the lessons of last year’s devastation of Puerto Rico and is vowing a better response.Calling 2017...
Aug 23 2018 // As emergency shelters opened, rain began to pour and cellphone alerts went out, the approaching hurricane started to feel real for Hawaii residents.Hurricane Lane was forecast to continue i Hurricane Lane was forecast to...
Aug 22 2018 // A new analysis shows 48,617 homes in Hawaii with a total reconstruction cost value of roughly $8 billion are at extreme-to-very high risk of hurricane-driven flood damage from Hurricane Lane.The CoreLogic analysis issued...
Aug 22 2018 // Hurricane Lane has weakened as it approaches Hawaii but was still expected to pack a wallop, forecasters said Wednesday, as people hurried to buy water and other supplies and the Navy moved its ships to safety.The National...
Aug 22 2018 // Hawaii is bracing for a grazing blow from Category 5 Hurricane Lane, now packing 160-mile-per-hour winds, enough to collapse frame buildings, cause power outages that could last weeks or months and snap trees off at the...
Aug 17 2018 // Hawaii will allow ridesharing services to operate at the Honolulu airport on a permanent basis after changes were approved to administration rules.Uber and Lyft, which the state refers to as transportation network...