West Hawaii Today

At the equator, the Earth turns at about 1,000 miles per hour.

Faizan Zaki, last year’s runner-up at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, came back from a late-stage flub in Thursday’s competition to easily spell “éclaircissement” and take home the winning prize of $50,000.

In the northwest corner of Washington state Friday morning, authorities issued a most unusual all-points bulletin, rather, an APBee.

Former President Joe Biden said Friday afternoon that he was feeling good after beginning treatment for an aggressive form of prostate cancer.

Alan Wayne Britto

“I hate the homeless, they should throw‘em all in jail!”

It’s hard to recognize a revolution when you were born in one and it’s all you know.

Feedback about one-way traffic pattern in Kona

A formal dining room is not a requirement for homeowners nowadays, so you may be wondering how you can use your formal dining room for something other than dining.

We have come to a time when we need to depend more on our gardens and what they can produce to keep our food costs lower and products locally grown.

New Orleans Pelicans star Zion Williamson has been accused of rape and domestic violence in a civil lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court late Thursday by a woman who said she dated him for almost five years, beginning when he was a freshman at Duke.

Police have arrested and charged 29-year-old Emmy Cedeno Perez of Kailua-Kona for a parking violation scam involving a “barnacle” device placed on the windshields of vehicles in West Hawaii.

A 70-year-old Pahoa man pleaded not guilty Friday to charges related to a three-vehicle collision that killed an 80-year-old Keauhou woman and injured her then 85-year-old husband.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday accused China of violating a bilateral deal to roll back tariffs and announced a doubling of worldwide steel and aluminum tariffs to 50%, once again rattling international trade.

As Elon Musk became one of Donald Trump’s closest allies last year, leading raucous rallies and donating about $275 million to help him win the presidency, he was also using drugs far more intensely than previously known, according to people familiar with his activities.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday let President Donald Trump’s administration revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan, Cuban, Haitian and Nicaraguan migrants living in the United States, bolstering the Republican president’s drive to step up deportations. The court put on hold Boston-based U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani’s order halting the administration’s move

Gov. Josh Green signed three bills Friday afternoon to support healthier keiki through better access to food, transportation and surfing programs in schools.

Episode 23 of Kilauea’s ongoing eruption within Halema‘uma‘u occurred on Sunday, May 25. Record-setting lava fountain and plume heights were reached quickly for this eruption, less than