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The fight to save Hawaii’s coconut palms

Across Hawaii, what looks like a bad haircut on the landscape is marking the slow death of the coconut palm, that icon of paradise. The…

Court halts commercial fishing in Pacific sanctuary

A hui of Hawaiian cultural practitioners, the Conservation Council for Hawaii and the Center for Biological Diversity stopped President Donald Trump from allowing commercial fishing…

Maui fires triggered suicides, overdose deaths

Suicides and overdose deaths skyrocketed 97% on Maui immediately after the August 2023 wildfires and simultaneously increased 46% statewide, presumably from survivors who moved away…

UH celebrates fourth year of record federal funding

Hawaii officials Wednesday celebrated the University of Hawaii’s fourth consecutive year of record- setting external funding, which they said keeps UH as the primary source…