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An architect has been sentenced to a year in prison for paying more than $100,000 in bribes to Honolulu city employees in exchange for expediting approval of his projects.
Sun’s out, guns out? Not on Hawaii’s world-famous beaches. Beginning Saturday, a new law prohibits carrying a firearm on beaches, as well as banks and restaurants that serve alcohol.
Authorities in Hawaii have arrested a man and woman they say supplied the fentanyl in a mass overdose in a room at an oceanfront hotel that left two people dead.
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s largest electric utility aims to transform an 85-year-old oil-fired power plant into one that will run on renewable energy.
HONOLULU (AP) — A man accused of firing into a large crowd at a Hawaii cockfight in a shooting that killed two people pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges Thursday.
Police in Hawaii have vowed to step up illegal gambling enforcement after one of the most serious shootings in state history called attention to the dangers that come with cockfighting.
Two victims died after five people were shot during an altercation at a late-night cockfight Friday in Honolulu, police said.
A Hawaii surfer credits his faith in God for surviving an Easter shark attack. Mike Morita said Wednesday from a hospital bed that he’s at peace with losing his right foot to Sunday’s shark attack at his regular Honolulu surfing spot known as Kewalos on the south shore of the island of Oahu.
HONOLULU (AP) — Honolulu police are searching for an attempted murder suspect who they say shot at a woman with a handgun and then dumped an unknown acidic liquid on her.
HONOLULU (AP) — A surfer was in serious condition after being bitten in the leg by a shark Sunday morning off Honolulu, authorities said.
A former Hawaii lawmaker has been sentenced to two years in prison in a federal corruption case that’s drawn attention to a perennial problem in the islands: the tens of thousands of cesspools that release 50 million gallons of raw sewage into the state’s pristine waters every day.
Hawaii housing has been expensive for decades, but only in the last few years have pricey dwellings set off a population decline.
HONOLULU (AP) — Four Honolulu police officers pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges related to their roles in a cover-up of a high-speed chase that resulted in a crash and a traumatic brain injury to the driver of another car.
HONOLULU (AP) — An investigation has found that an ambulance fire that killed a patient and critically injured a paramedic last year originated in a portable oxygen cylinder’s regulatory assembly, Honolulu officials said Wednesday.
HONOLULU (AP) — Honolulu prosecutors on Thursday filed charges against four police officers alleging a cover-up in connection with a high-speed car chase that they say resulted in a crash and a traumatic brain injury to the driver of another car.
WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — A business owner whose luxury yacht ran aground and leaked diesel fuel into waters off the Hawaiian island of Maui last month is being sued for more than $2 million in damages by a trust that sold him the vessel.
HONOLULU (AP) — A luxury yacht that ran aground in waters off the Hawaiian island of Maui accidentally pumped diesel fuel into the ocean after a failed attempt to remove it Tuesday, its owner said.
HONOLULU (AP) — A Honolulu officer was assaulted Thursday by a man who took off in the officer’s police vehicle, prompting a two-hour chase across Oahu from the North Shore to downtown Honolulu.
HONOLULU (AP) — HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. (HE) on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter net income of $57.8 million.
An autopsy report shows that a former rugby player from South Africa who was shot and killed by Honolulu police suffered from a severe form of a brain disease.
HONOLULU (AP) — A former Maui County official was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for accepting $2 million in bribes from a Honolulu businessman in one of the biggest bribery cases in Hawaii history.
The casket bearing the 96-year-old heiress long considered the last Hawaiian princess has gone on public display in the downtown Honolulu palace.
One of the world’s most prestigious and storied surfing contests went forward in Hawaii for the first time in seven years.
Native Hawaiians who have been priced out of Hawaii are finding more affordable places to live in cities like Las Vegas.
One of the world’s most prestigious and storied surfing contests is expected to be held Sunday in Hawaii for the first time in seven years.
HONOLULU (AP) — An American consultant was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison for an illicit lobbying effort to get the former Trump administration to drop an investigation into the multibillion-dollar looting of a Malaysian state investment fund, and to arrange for the return of a Chinese d
HONOLULU (AP) — Si Woo Kim battled all day from a three-shot deficit in the Sony Open, and when he finally caught up late Sunday afternoon, it only got harder.
Hayden Buckley has a two-shot lead in the Sony Open as he goes after his first PGA Tour victory and a spot in the Masters. It took a lot to get there.
Chris Kirk in the lead might have been the only shred of normalcy in the Sony Open. Jordan Spieth started with a share of the lead.
HONOLULU (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board said a team has recovered the remains of three flight crew members and the wreckage of a medical transport plane that crashed into the ocean off Maui last month.