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April 1, 2020 - President Donald J. Trump declared that a major disaster exists in the State of Hawaii and ordered Federal assistance to supplement State and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic beginning on January 20, 2020, and continuing

Hawaii health authorities began a search on Friday for anyone who may have had close contact with a Japanese tourist who fell ill on the island of Oahu and tested positive for a new coronavirus soon after returning to his home country.'

'There are no indications of survivors'

One person is dead after security forces at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam responded to a reported shooting at the U.S. Navy and Air Force base on Wednesday. The latest: The base said the shooter was a U.S. sailor, who reportedly shot and injured three De

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Hurricane Lane was downsized to a Category 3 storm Thursday night, but it has still managed to dump 30 inches of rain on Hawaii's major islands.

The Category 4 hurricane is expected to reach the Hawaiian islands Thursday.

Half of the Aloha State is under hurricane warning with the approach of Hurricane Lane, a Category 4 storm with winds up to 156 miles per hour. Lane had even reached Category 5—the highest ranking on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale—late Tuesday

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A basketball-sized lava bomb slammed through the roof of a tour boat near an active fissure of the Hawaiian volcano early Monday morning, showering the vessel with debris.

For the seventh time in eight days, an explosion at the Kilauea summit on Hawaii's Big Island erupted Thursday morning with a force equivalent to an earthquake of magnitude 5.3 or higher, according to the US Geological Survey.

The shaking is near constant. And sometimes it's severe.

A neighborhood called Vacationland on Hawaii's Big Island had disappeared by Wednesday as lava poured into two oceanfront subdivisions, smothering hundreds of homes and filling an ocean bay, turning it into new land that now juts into the sea.

An explosive eruption at Hawaii's Klauea volcano has sent a plume of ash 4,500 metres into the air, the U.S. Geological Survey says.

Lava from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is approaching the ocean, and the Hawaii Volcano Observatory is warning of a new danger if the two meet.

The Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island erupted last Thursday and has shown no signs of stopping. Two NASA astronauts onboard the International Space Station earlier this week snapped some dramatic photos of the ash plumes.

The Kilauea eruption continued its journey across Lower Puna on Sunday as two new fissures opened, destroying one structure and shooting molten rock hundreds of feet into the air.

A man who lives near the large volcanic fissure that opened up Sunday and spewed lava near Halekamahina Loop Road in lower Puna called the event "absolutely deafening."