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Demonstrators gather outside the Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu, Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023, to protest a visit by Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., and recall the actions taken by his late dictator father, Ferdinand Marcos Sr. The younger Marcos and current president was in Honolulu for a whirlwind trip on the way home from the […]
It’s been more than two months since lives were changed forever on Maui after the tragic wildfires devastated the island. The American Red Cross is still there, helping to care for some 6,870 people impacted by the fires, and will continue to help in the weeks and months to come as people try to get […]
U.S. officials decided not to shoot down an unmanned balloon first spotted off the coast of Hawaii last week after determining the aircraft did not pose a military or physical threat. A Department of Defense spokesperson said in a statement that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Defense Department first saw the unmanned balloon […]
WASHINGTON – To help identify and address barriers workers face in accessing state unemployment insurance benefits, the U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of $2,283,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funding to the Hawaii Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. Funded by the American Rescue Plan Act and administered by the department’s Employment […]
Maui Sail Company has been sued for $5 million.(Unsplash/Rep image) A couple honeymooning in Hawaii said that a snorkelling tour group abandoned them in the ocean for more than an hour, ultimately forcing them to swim back to the shore. According to NBC News, the incident took place in September 2021, when Elizabeth Webster and […]
E Mãlama Pono, Willy Boy At the end of the recent Hawai’i International Film Festival, Filmmaker reached out to director Scott W. Kekama Amona to learn more about E Mãlama Pono, Willy Boy, which won the festival’s Audience Award for Best Short Film. An astonishingly assured, measured debut, Willy Boy is one of the more important […]
HAWAII — A Russian spy ship has been patrolling off the coast of Hawaii but so far has remained in international waters, the Pentagon said Thursday. While the appearance of a Russian surveillance ship along the U.S. coastline is not unusual, this one has attracted more attention because of heightened tensions between the U.S. and […]
Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story! The owner of the Semisub tour boat company, who was free on bond while awaiting trial on federal securities fraud charges, was apprehended at sea Friday by U.S. marshals, two days after trying to flee the island in his vessel. Curtiss Jackson, 70, who the U.S. […]
As Gov. David Ige leaves office, some critics will continue to jab at him for the 2018 North Korean missile alert false alarm in which he said he forgot his social media passwords and couldn’t tell locals in a timely manner that the warning was in error. Laugh at our outgoing governor all you like, […]
WASHINGTON — Mitre, which operates federally funded centers that assist the U.S. government with science research, development and systems engineering, said it will open a facility in in Hawaii to bolster security and national defense operations in the Indo-Pacific. This site in Honolulu will support Hawaii and Indo-Pacific priorities of the U.S. Department of Defense, […]