HILO, Hawaii (AP) — 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 Tuesday after the ordinance has been in the works for over a ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii health officials are urging health care organizations to prepare for the new state law that allows doctors to fulfill requests from terminally ill patients to prescribe life-ending medication.

State Department of Health officials said they are working to establish a ...

HONOLULU (AP) — The statewide outbreak of mumps has ended, Hawaii health officials said.

More than 1,000 people were identified with mumps since the outbreak began in March 2017, stemming from two clusters of cases involving nine people on Oahu, the state Department of Health said ...

HONOLULU (AP) — The executive director of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority is suing the city of Honolulu after his home and others were damaged by flooding in April.

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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say nine members of a California drug ring have been arrested on suspicion of trying to send methamphetamine to Hawaii inside replica Aztec calendar stones and statues.

The U.S. Attorney’s office says Tuesday that 25 pounds of meth disguised as ...

HONOLULU (AP) — A Honolulu police lieutenant accused of filing false state income tax returns is scheduled to stand trial in December.

Eric Y.N. Yiu, 54, pleaded not guilty Monday to six counts of filing fraudulent tax returns, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser

KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — A Hawaii jury has convicted a former Big Island police officer in the 2015 death of bicyclist.

Jody Buddemeyer was found guilty last week of misdemeanor negligent homicide after prosecutors said he struck and killed 63-year-old Jeffrey Surnow.

Surnow, of ...

WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — Two Hawaii men were each sentenced to 18 months in jail in the deadly beating of a homeless man on Maui.

Kaniela Dutro, 22, and Kekaimalu Cacpal, 23, were sentenced in separate hearings last week after they each pleaded no contest to a reduced charge of first-degree ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Officials are worried a strike involving about 2,700 Marriott hotel workers in Hawaii could continue into next year.

The strike, which calls for higher wages, better benefits and safer working conditions, began last Monday and continued through the end of the week, the ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii lawmakers are preparing for a series of requests and proposals to help fund disaster-recovery efforts following a run of storms, wildfires and eruptive volcanic activity.

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HONOLULU (AP) — A coalition of Hawaii unions, businesses and environmentalists is urging residents to vote in November against a state constitutional convention.

The purpose of the convention would be to amend or rewrite Hawaii’s Constitution.

“The groups coming together in ...

PAHOA, Hawaii (AP) — Police on the Big Island say officers have shot and killed a woman who rammed a stolen vehicle into them.

Police say Puna patrol officers were conducting routine beat checks early Friday when they saw a Toyota 4-Runner parked on a dirt trail near the ocean.

As ...

LIHUE, Hawaii (AP) — A man convicted of sexually assaulting two women and a child on Kauai was sentenced to 35 years in prison.

Jesse Korn, 27, was sentenced Wednesday after he pleaded no contest to kidnapping and three sexual assault charges, The Garden Island

KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — Honolulu prosecutors have declined to file charges against a former Big Island police detective who authorities believed was involved in the theft of drug evidence.

Honolulu prosecutors found that the evidence did not support criminal charges, West Hawaii Today ...

HONOLULU (AP) — A Hawaii man convicted of intentionally driving into a group of people leaving a party at an Oahu beach has been sentenced to 18 months.

Malik Morton was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty in July to charges of assault, attempted assault and terroristic ...

HONOLULU (AP) — A retired Hawaii firefighter has been convicted of killing an Oahu man in what authorities described as a road rage shooting.

A jury found 73-year-old Darryl Freeman guilty Tuesday of second-degree murder and firearm charges in the March 2017 death of 31-year-old Keenyn ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii Gov. David Ige has nominated his high school friend and former campaign manager for a seat on the state Intermediate Court of Appeals.

The Democratic governor’s nomination of Keith Hiraoka, 59, comes more than a year after Ige nominated him to become a First Circuit ...

HONOLULU (AP) — A Muslim woman who wears a hijab was discriminated against while trying to renew her Hawaii driver’s license, a civil liberties group said in a complaint letter Tuesday.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii sent a letter to officials who oversee driver’s licensing ...

HONOLULU (AP) — The Latest on a complaint that a Muslim woman renewing her Hawaii driver’s license was discriminated against (all times local):

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Hawaii County officials say they were following U.S. requirements when they issued a temporary driver’s license to a Muslim woman who ...

HONOLULU (AP) — If you got incessant phone calls last week from a hospital that cares for Hawaiian monk seals, you were butt-dialed.

Or, more specifically, foot-dialed.

By a gecko.

Marine mammal veterinarian Claire Simeone was at lunch when she got a call from Ke Kai Ola, the ...

HONOLULU (AP) — A Hawaii task force is recommending the state form an independent commission to provide oversight of correctional facilities as well as shepherd in reforms to the prison system.

The 13-member task force chaired by Hawaii Supreme Court Associate Justice Michael Wilson is ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Honolulu police officers shot and killed a man across from the Hawaii Capitol after he hit an officer with a machete, police said.

State deputy sheriffs responded to call reporting an armed man threatening another person outside the state Department of Health building ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Workers at some of Hawaii’s most iconic hotels are joining a national strike.

About 2,700 Marriott employees on Oahu and Maui on Monday joined the strike that began last week in Boston, San Francisco and other cities.

They work at five properties operated by Marriott. ...

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) — Relatives of a Chicago-area Marine killed during World War II are welcoming his body back after 75 years being buried in Hawaii as an unknown serviceman.

WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — A Maui man convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Brandon Silva, 32, was sentenced last week after reaching an agreement with prosecutors where he pleaded no contest to kidnapping and a reduced charge of ...

HONOLULU (AP) — The Hawaii Department of Education is proposing changes to its misconduct and discipline policy, creating a new offense of sexual harassment and increasing the offense classification of bullying.

The state Board of Education voted unanimously last week to send the proposed ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Oahu’s median price for a single-family home hit a record $812,500 last month, a Honolulu Board of Realtors report said.

The price is a 6.9 percent increase from the median price in September 2017 and a slight bump from the previous record of $810,000 set in August, ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii officials have finally laid out an inventory of land owned by the state and who pays to use it in a new statewide public online database.

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HONOLULU (AP) — Freshman Chevan Cordeiro threw a 38-yard touchdown pass to JoJo Ward with 1:26 to play to Hawaii beat Wyoming 17-13 on Saturday night and move to 3-0 in Mountain West Conference play for the first time in program history.

Cordeiro, making his first career start in place of ...

HONOLULU (AP) — A former Hawaii teacher and coach was convicted of five counts of invasion of privacy for secretly filming male students in the shower.

Honolulu Circuit Judge Rom Trader found Gabriel Alisna guilty Friday at the conclusion of a nonjury trial.

Alisna did not testify. ...

HILO, Hawaii (AP) — The Hawaii County Council is asking the Mass Transit Administration to quit accepting used buses from other counties.

West Hawaii Today reports the ...

HILO, Hawaii (AP) — More than 15,000 people have visited Hawaii Volcanoes National Park since it partially reopened last month, according to the National Park Service.

The park reopened on National Public Lands Day — when admission was free — after closing in May because of the Kilauea ...

HONOLULU (AP) — The Hawaii Supreme Court has agreed to hear a petition from the state’s four counties that are seeking to quash a ballot question giving the Legislature the power to tax investment real estate to fund education.

The state’s highest court is scheduled to hear arguments on ...

HONOLULU (AP) — In a story on May 18, 2018, The Associated Press reported that former U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka was the first Native Hawaiian elected to Congress. Akaka was the first Native Hawaiian to serve in the U.S. Senate after Hawaii became a state, but other Native Hawaiians had been elected ...

WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — The National Park Service is considering implementing a wristband system as way to manage crowds at the popular Pools of Oheo on Maui.

Haleakala National Park closed the pools in the Kipahulu District indefinitely in January 2017 following a rockslide that injured a ...

HILO, Hawaii (AP) — Big Island officials are working on a public-private partnership to create a viewing platform for people to see the new fissure and lava from the Kilauea volcano eruption.

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HONOLULU (AP) — Two health insurers in Hawaii will cover dental care for adults on Medicaid after the state program excluded oral health benefits a decade ago.

AlohaCare and Ohana Health Plan are investing nearly $1 million to provide basic adult dental care for Medicaid members, which ...

HILO, Hawaii (AP) — An electric utility on the Big Island has restored power to nearly all active customers in a neighborhood that was evacuated when the Kilauea volcano began erupting.

Power has been restored to all customers who requested reconnections to their homes in Leilani Estates ...

LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming didn’t show well in its Mountain West Conference opener last week, but the Cowboys aren’t dwelling on it.

They don’t have time to.

Wyoming is moving on quicker than usual from its 34-14 loss to Boise State with a trip to Hawaii looming Saturday. The ...

KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — Two Hawaiian monk seal pups found malnourished on Laysan Island are recovering at an animal hospital on the Big Island.

A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration team surveying the endangered monk seal populations last month in the northwestern Hawaiian ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Construction spending across Hawaii is expected to reach a decade high of $9 billion this year despite last year’s projections of spending leveling out, according to an economic report.

The analysis by the University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization projects a 7 ...

HILO, Hawaii (AP) — Conservationists have released five more Hawaiian crows into the wild a year after 11 were released on the Big Island.

The two females and three males were released last week in the Puu Makaala Forest Reserve, bringing the total number of known in the wild up to 16, the ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Humpback whale sightings are becoming less common in the Hawaiian Islands.

Researchers have found that along with fewer sightings, fewer male Hawaiian humpback whales have been recorded singing, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser