Hawaii

Thanks to supportive Tribune-Herald readers and the community, Pahoa High School students raised the funds needed for their junior/senior prom....

The small, round domed building that has fronted Caesars Palace for decades is no more. The Caesars rotunda has been demolished in order to clear space for grandstands for the Formula One race this fall....

One of the jobs of the City Council is figuring out how much it should get paid....

Henk Rogers is known in Hawaii for, among many things, founding the Blue Planet Foundation, which spearheaded the state's renewable energy policy. He's also credited for the establishment of Tetris, the stacking puzzle game that is one of the most...

Hawaii ended the first of two quick road trips with a speedy sweep of Saturday's series finale at Cal State Northridge....

Can't we do better?...

HILO — The Ka 'Umeke 'Ka'eo boys varsity volleyball team beat St. Joseph High School 3-1 Friday night at the Hilo High School gymnasium....

SEATTLE — UConn's record Final Four run is over, thanks to a monumental performance by Ohio State....

HILO — The Hilo High School varsity softball team defeated Ka'u High School 15-0 in a four inning contest Friday afternoon at Walter Victor Baseball Complex....

WEST READING, Pa. — An explosion at a chocolate factory in Pennsylvania on Friday killed two people and left five people missing, authorities said. One person was pulled alive from the rubble overnight....

As funding for albizia removal on the Big Island dries up, the invasive trees — and the danger they pose — are spreading again....

Nobody wants to be forced to schedule a doctor's appointment....

It's not difficult to understand why a visitor impact fee has such broad support. As an idea, it's appealing. Make tourists pay to offset their impact on our state? Not only does that have an innate sense of justice to it — like someone wash...

Question: Where is the survey to say whether we want raised crosswalks in our neighborhood?...

Most military service members in Hawaii are facing a possible pay cut of around 4.6% amid persistent high inflation as the Department of Defense contemplates amending its cost of living allowance for armed forces personnel outside the contiguous United St...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva has canceled his trip to China after contracting pneumonia, the presidential palace said on Saturday....

Hawaii's beauty attracts millions of visitors to our islands each year, and the onslaught of tourists hurts the places we enjoyed as children, especially our coral reefs. Many tourists enjoy reef walking, snorkeling, diving and fishing to experience t...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin announced plans on Saturday to station tactical nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus, a warning to the West as it steps up military support for Ukraine....

Did you spot a sign of Hawaiian life on your travels? To submit photos, check out our new, simple online submission form at staradvertiser.com/signs . You must fill out all required fields in order to be considered for publication. Photos must have a pers...

Where land is a precious commodity, as it is statewide and certainly on Oahu, decisions about how to use as much as 243 acres demand intense scrutiny....

The state Department of Health has fallen several years behind in producing annual reports detailing infections patients acquire during hospital stays, leaving the public with less information about how well health care facilities are doing in controlling...

Some have called it the best job in football, or even all of pro sports....

Shiny and elusive, featherlight and golden-brown. If poets were to write about rocks, I'm sure they would sing their praises of Pele's hairs. Don't be fooled, though, because Pele's hairs are strands of volcanic glass, and they can pose a ...

The Big Island as seen by Hawaii Tribune-Herald cartoonist Gary Hoff....

Books recommended by the Hawaii State Library:...

When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail....

'Iolani's Kaleb Abara missed two consecutive soccer seasons due to a pandemic and a knee injury, so he put in the work to ensure his return to the pitch would be successful....

Left-hander Randy Abshier pitched a one-hitter over six innings and third baseman Kyson Donahue smacked a grand slam to power the Hawaii baseball team to tonight's 7-1 victory over Tulane at Les Murakami Stadium....

A 53-year-old woman suffered fatal injuries in a single-car crash Friday night on Keaahala Road in Kaneohe....

A 9-year-old boy was rescued this morning by Honolulu Fire Department crews after becoming ill and falling on the Koko Crater Trail in Hawaii Kai....

Master gardener Tom Timmons never realized that plants were fussy eaters until he was lollygagging in the garden shop rather than cleaning the garage like he promised his wife and discovered shelves piled with every imaginable kind of fertilizer....

Leslie Karst, now an author based in Hilo on the Big Island, writes about how the nine months of preparation for that one intimate meal changed the trajectory of her life in her sixth book, a memoir: "Justice is Served: A Tale of Scallops, the Law, & ...

Storms producing tornadoes, damaging wind gusts, and hail up to the size of golf balls were moving through several southern states Friday night with widespread damage and injuries reported in Mississippi from a large tornado....

The new rules conform to other changes in the Catholic Church's handling of abuse that have been issued since then....

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Get live streaming, TV channel and game information for the South Carolina vs. UCLA women's basketball NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 game on Saturday, March 25, 2023....

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China threatened "serious consequences" Friday after the United States Navy sailed a destroyer around the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea for the second day in a row, in a move Beijing claimed was a violation of its sovereignty and...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — March has gone from madness to unprecedented....

Skimming the treetops, three Soviet-era attack helicopters bank and swoop down on a field after an early-morning mission to the front lines in the fight against Russia's invasion of Ukraine....

New research finds that drinking caffeinated coffee did not significantly affect one kind of heart rhythm that results in extra beats. But it did signal a slight increase in another type of heart hiccup in people who drank more than one cup of coffee per ...

The National Hockey League's Pride nights are in the spotlight after some high-profile incidents. The events have been held annually for several years by NHL teams to show support for the LGBTQ+ community. A handful of players have objected to partici...

A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts:...

Max Smith played drums in Rwanda, raced down sand dunes in New Mexico and rode a camel in Dubai....