All the headlines from our Hawaii Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 11 2019 // The National Transportation Safety Board says two skydivers made a last-minute decision to board the Hawaii plane that crashed and killed 11 people last month.The NTSB’s preliminary report gave no cause for the...
Jul 9 2019 // Officials have raised the alert level for the world’s largest active volcano, Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, which last erupted in 1984.The U.S. Geological Survey changed the level from “normal” to...
Jul 2 2019 // Hawaii will soon provide drivers the option to select “X” as their gender on licenses.Democratic Gov. David Ige was expected to sign the bill aimed at reducing discrimination against transgender and gender...
Jun 25 2019 // Federal investigators will review repair and inspection records on the skydiving plane that became inverted before crashing shortly after takeoff on Oahu’s North Shore, killing all 11 people on board in the deadliest...
Jun 3 2019 // Hawaii and the Central Pacific could experience more storms than normal during this year’s hurricane season.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted in late May that there will be five to eight...
May 31 2019 // The maker of Kona beer agreed to offer partial refunds to settle a lawsuit claiming it misled consumers in the continental United States into believing the craft brew was actually made in Hawaii, causing them to...
May 29 2019 // Communities near Hawaii Volcanoes National Park lost up to $94 million in economic benefit last year compared to the previous year due to the eruption of Kilauea Volcano, officials said.The National Park Service found the...
May 24 2019 // Hawaii and the Central Pacific could experience more storms than normal during this year’s hurricane season.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted Wednesday there will be five to eight named...
May 22 2019 // Members of a Hawaii condominium association have filed a lawsuit saying the building is unsafe and uninhabitable.The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported that the lawsuit filed by owners of units in the 3-year-old Waiea tower...
May 20 2019 // The parent company of a Hawaii brewery has agreed on a tentative settlement with the plaintiffs in a lawsuit over allegations that the company’s packaging and advertising misleads customers. West Hawaii Today...
May 6 2019 // Hawaii’s coral reefs provide more than $835 million in flood protection for the state annually, according to a new study.The report by the U.S. Geological Survey, The Nature Conservancy and the University of...
May 3 2019 // The parent company of a Hawaii brewery has agreed on a tentative settlement with the plaintiffs in a lawsuit over allegations that the company’s packaging and advertising misleads customers. West Hawaii Today...
Apr 22 2019 // The Honolulu City Council has advanced two bills aimed at providing regulations on short-term vacation rentals on Oahu.Both bills now go back to the Council Planning Committee, as interim Council Chairwoman Ann Kobayashi...
Apr 18 2019 // Island Insurance Company Ltd. in Hawaii has named Michael Tanoue vice president and general counsel. In thisTanoue is responsible for strategic initiatives, policy management, legal strategy, compliance and regulatory...
Apr 15 2019 // A magnitude 5.3 earthquake hit the west side of the Big Island of Hawaii on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed.The quake hit about 5 p.m. and had an epicenter about 15 miles southwest of Kailua-Kona, a city of...
Apr 1 2019 // A federal jury awarded more than $700,000 in damages to a Hawaii man who sued a hospital, saying staff injected him against his will with anti-psychotic drugs that left him incapacitated for months.A jury in U.S. District...
Feb 20 2019 // Kauai officials are suing the owners of a vacation home, claiming they are violating county zoning ordinances for using the property as a short-term rental.The Garden Island reports the Kauai County Planning Department...
Feb 19 2019 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider limiting the scope of a landmark law aimed at curbing water pollution in a dispute pitting environmentalists against local authorities in Hawaii over a wastewater...
Feb 12 2019 // Hawaii lawmakers have advanced a measure that would allow judges to prohibit people convicted of drunken driving from purchasing or publicly consuming alcohol for three years after their conviction.The measure, introduced...
Feb 6 2019 // Island Insurance, a Honolulu, Hawaii-based property and casualty (P/C) insurance carrier, appointed Daniel Lee as vice president, Commercial Lines.Lee will oversee Island’s commercial insurance division, which...