All the headlines from our Hawaii Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 3 2022 // Fourteen Hawaii children and teenagers filed a lawsuit Wednesday, alleging the state is violating the state constitution by operating a transportation system that harms the climate and infringes upon the plaintiffs’...
May 20 2022 // Hawaii and the Central Pacific basin should expect two to four hurricanes, tropical depressions or tropical storms this year, federal forecasters said.The annual National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration outlook...
May 12 2022 // Federal investigators blamed a deadly 2019 helicopter crash in Hawaii on the pilot’s decision to keep flying into worsening weather, and in a report this week they accused regulators of lax oversight of air tours...
Mar 21 2022 // The National Transportation Safety Board ruled that a helicopter that crashed in Hawaii last month and killed all four people on board nose-dived from 200 feet above ground after it unexpectedly stopped while making a...
Mar 11 2022 // The National Transportation Safety Board ruled that a helicopter that crashed in Hawaii last month and killed all four people on board nose-dived from 200 feet above ground after it unexpectedly stopped while making a...
Mar 3 2022 // Hawaii plans to lift its COVID-19 quarantine requirement for travelers this month, meaning that starting on March 26 those arriving from other places in the U.S. won’t have to show proof of vaccination or a negative...
Jan 10 2022 // The Monsanto Co. pleaded guilty to illegally using and storing agricultural chemicals in Hawaii, and will pay $12 million in fines.Monsanto, now owned by German pharmaceutical company Bayer, agreed to plead guilty to the...
Dec 28 2021 // A magnitude-4.9 earthquake struck a submerged volcano south of Hawaii’s Big Island last week, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory confirmed.said the temblor hit at 1:32 a.m. about 26 miles southeast of Naalehu, at a...
Dec 8 2021 // A slow-moving storm that knocked out power, swamped dozens of homes and sent creeks and streams surging had mostly passed over Hawaii on Tuesday, though the threat of flooding lingered in some already-drenched...
Dec 6 2021 // A food distributor in Hawaii has filed a federal lawsuit against a dairy company because milk from the mainland is allegedly being sold under a name that advertises local ties.The lawsuit filed by Hawaii Foodservice...
Nov 29 2021 // A food distributor in Hawaii has filed a federal lawsuit against a dairy company because milk from the mainland is allegedly being sold under a name that advertises local ties.The lawsuit filed by Hawaii Foodservice...
Nov 9 2021 // A lawsuit alleges that Hawaii officials unlawfully disclosed the COVID-19 vaccination statuses of nearly 300 Department of Public Safety employees.The Hawaii Government Employees Association and the United Public Workers...
Oct 12 2021 // CORRECTION: In a story published October 10, 2021, about an earthquake that struck Sunday off the coast of the Big Island of Hawaii, The Associated Press erroneously reported that there were two earthquakes 20 minutes...
Sep 14 2021 // A U.S. judge has given preliminary approval to a settlement in a lawsuit by Hawaii inmates who allege state officials mishandled the pandemic and failed to protect them from COVID-19 outbreaks in prisons and jails.In a...
Sep 3 2021 // A police captain on the Hawaii island of Kauai has filed a lawsuit alleging his police chief discriminated against him for being Japanese American, including an episode when the chief squinted his eyes, bowed repeatedly...
Aug 27 2021 // The ground at the summit of Kilauea volcano in Hawaii has been rumbling and swelling in recent days, prompting scientists to warn that the mountain could once again disgorge lava. But there’s no indication an...
Aug 26 2021 // Geologists said they had detected a swarm of earthquakes at Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano, though it is not erupting.The quakes began overnight on Tuesday and continued into the morning, The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory...
Jul 7 2021 // A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has hit off Hawaii’s Big Island.According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake hit less than 3 miles offshore of the northwest coast of the Big Island Monday. The earthquake was about...
Jul 5 2021 // The Hawaii Department of Taxation has been boosting its monitoring of peer-to-peer car rentals.The industry operates with the help of apps like Turo, which people can use to rent their personal cars to others. Department...
Jun 28 2021 // The Hawaii Department of Taxation has been boosting its monitoring of peer-to-peer car rentals.The industry operates with the help of apps like Turo, which people can use to rent their personal cars to others. Department...