On July 4, 1944, Sgt. Howard Urabe was fighting Nazis in Europe. Hailing from Kapaa, Kauai, he was fighting alongside other young nisei — American-born…
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Reductions in work hours and layoffs have started in Hawaii’s visitor industry following a softer than expected summer and fall. The state Department of Business,…
Gov. Josh Green and Army Secretary Dan Driscoll announced Monday, Sept. 29, 2025 that they had signed a nonbinding “statement of principles on land use…
LIHUE — Kauai’s Kumu Hula Leina‘ala Pavao-Jardin passed quietly on Saturday at the age of 51. The news, heard from several news sources and social…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a challenge to a Hawaii law restricting the carrying of handguns on private…
The U.S. military is continuing to pursue its post-Red Hill refueling strategy in the Pacific with a new facility under construction in Papua New Guinea.…
The modified closure of the Hawai‘i Convention Center over at least the next two years will cost the visitor industry hundreds of millions in lost…
Arica Lynn Souza knew she was running out of time. It was August 2023, and she was nervously watching as a wildfire inched ever closer…
Kauai Comic Con is coming on Oct. 12 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Kauai War Memorial Convention Hall. Organizer Aaron Yamasato said…
In the early 1980s, I was employed at McBryde Sugar Co., Kauai as a haul cane truck driver assigned to one of three sugarcane harvesting…