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Aloha Stadium opening pushed to 2029

Replacing Aloha Stadium has advanced a step closer to initiation, but the new facility is now slated to be smaller and completed later than previously…

Matson navigates drop in Chinese business

Hawaii’s largest ocean cargo transportation firm has a more positive financial outlook for the rest of this year after a rebound in business from China…

Hawaii hospitals brace for cuts to Medicaid

Hawaii hospitals are bracing for a financial hit from Medicaid cuts approved by Congress. Due to changes written into the “big, beautiful bill” — or…

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…