Install
Covering the west side of Hawaii's Big Island, including breaking news, business, sports, entertainment and weather.
- 204articles · 30d
- 21+ hour agolatest article
- Aug 15, 2026earliest in window
- 80%with images
- 356avg words
- Sports 70
- Sports & Fitness 70
- Sport 66
- News 43
- Disaster, Accident & Emergency Incident 41
- Politics 41
- Sensitive Subjects 36
- Politics2 26
Please confirm you are human
This browser or connection looks automated. Press and continuously hold the control for 3 seconds to enable Google-hosted web results and, when separately allowed, AI-assisted answers.
A successful check enables 100 search requests. Interactive access does not authorize scraping, systematic collection, or reuse of search output.
News
Judge blocks Trump administration???s???loyalty??? question for job applicants
21+ hour, 19+ min ago (444+ words) A federal judge on Friday blocked U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration from continuing to ask applicants for civil service jobs throughout the government to respond to what unions described as a partisan “loyalty question.” U.S. District Judge George O’Toole in…...
Judge rules that Trump plan to halve FEMA workforce violated law
21+ hour, 19+ min ago (533+ words) Red Cross worker Kim Stevens, left, chats with FEMA talent recruiter Travis Carter in 2024, during a FEMA job fair in Asheville, N.C. (Matthew Dae Smith / USA Today) A U.S. judge has ruled that the Trump administration broke the law by ordering the…...
Letters??? your voice??? September 9
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (416+ words) County’s policy regarding private housing must catch up At 112 Haili St., Makamae Holdings’ 39 apartments are keeping approximately 100 people housed, many of them kupuna or people with disabilities. I was born and raised in Hilo. My husband and I are physicians…...
New Mexicans deride Trump???s???New America??? idea
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (403+ words) New Mexicans on Tuesday described President Donald Trump’s suggestion the Democratic-run state be renamed “New America” as an attempt to erase history and culture. The land of deserts, mountains and high plains featured in Native American tales, epic Spanish poems…...
US judge again blocks Postal Service???s mail-in voting restrictions
1+ week, 1+ day ago (564+ words) A federal judge in Boston extended on Friday a ban stopping President Donald Trump’s administration from implementing a new U.S. Postal Service rule that would tighten mail-in voting requirements ahead of the November congressional elections. Boston-based U.S. District Judge Indira…...
Tokuda: Hegseth???not fit to serve??? and should resign
1+ week, 3+ day ago (302+ words) The ongoing war with Iran and the purge by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of generals and admirals in the U.S. military were among subjects raised by callers to a telephone town hall held Tuesday evening by U.S. Rep Jill Tokuda (D-Hawaii). One…...
Democrats sink Republican bid to cap Supreme Court at nine justices
1+ week, 3+ day ago (543+ words) Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives defeated a constitutional amendment on Wednesday to permanently cap the Supreme Court at nine justices, voting against a Republican proposal designed to make the court’s conservative majority a campaign issue ahead of November 3 elections....
US may ask parents to prove citizenship or immigration status to get passports for their children
1+ week, 4+ day ago (450+ words) The U.S. State Department has proposed requiring parents applying for passports for their children to provide proof of their own citizenship or immigration status as part of President Donald Trump’s latest effort to limit birthright citizenship. The draft guidance, reviewed by…...
Trump says Iran???s Kharg is being???blown to smithereens, but gives no details
1+ week, 6+ day ago (642+ words) Vessels in the Strait of Hormuz are visible Friday near the beach of Bandar Abbas, Iran. (Majid Asgaripour/WANA) WASHINGTON — Iran’s energy hub of Kharg Island is being blown to smithereens, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday, after…...
Thousands march in Washington as leaders warn of voting and civil rights rollbacks
2+ week, 21+ hour ago (498+ words) People hold a banner as they attend the “March on Washington 2026: Defend the Vote” rally and march for voting rights on Friday, in Washington D.C.. (REUTERS/Leah Millis) More than six decades after Martin Luther King Jr. stood on…...