West Hawaii Today

Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke signed into law Monday a bill that moves the office responsible for improving broadband internet access statewide from the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism to the Department of Accounting and General Services.

President Donald Trump’s policy agenda would make deep cuts in government health plans and medical research, and, critics say, could also make finding a doctor more difficult. The Republicans’ major domestic policy bill restricts loans that students rely on to pursue professional graduate degrees, making the path to becoming a physician harder even as doctor shortages loom and the American popula

Unusual heat waves have occurred in all of the major ocean basins around the planet in recent years. And some of these events have become so intense that scientists have coined a new term: super marine heat waves.

A $6 million Maui emergency marketing campaign is finally underway some four months after Gov. Josh Green released the funds to help counter the continued softness from the August 2023 Maui wildfires and the expected downturn due to the wildfires in Los Angeles, Hawaii’s top tourism source market.

“Respect the rotisserie chicken.” A reader wrote to me last week with that gem of a sentence, and I want to put it on hats and tote bags.

Celebrity Chef David Chang was born in Arlington, Va., started out as a competitive golfer, attended Georgetown Preparatory School and Trinity College, majoring in religious studies. He went to the French Culinary Institute in New York City in 2000. While in training, Chang worked part-time answering phones at Tom Colicchio’s Craft restaurant. After two years he moved to Japan and worked at a sma

The Indiana Pacers had a chance to do to the Oklahoma City Thunder what they did to the New York Knicks.

PITTSBURGH — At 41, Aaron Rodgers is the oldest player in the NFL. His soon-to-be 21 seasons of experience are also the most among active veterans, and he has outlasted everyone else in his 2005 draft class by more than three years now.

OKLAHOMA CITY — There were no fourth-quarter heroics for the Indiana Pacers in Game 2 of the NBA Finals — or for their star, Tyrese Haliburton.

PITTSBURGH — When he played his first practice round before the 2016 U.S. Open, Shane Lowry quit after six holes because he thought Oakmont Country Club was too paralyzing — and too damaging to his confidence.

Some investors in women’s soccer are not betting on just one team. They are trying to build empires.

LONDON — The chief of NATO on Monday called on the alliance to make a “quantum leap in our collective defense,” committing to increases in military spending that far outstrip what Britain and most other members have yet pledged.

From the beginning of the American experiment, one of its animating principles has been limited government overseen by citizen legislators.

Did she scream? Was it loud enough? Was her dress torn enough to prove she fought?

WASHINGTON — Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., has publicly accused President Donald Trump of treating Russia with “velvet gloves,” criticized him for gutting AmeriCorps and questioned his power to impose tariffs without congressional approval.

KYIV, Ukraine (NYT) — Russia launched almost 500 drones and missiles at Ukraine overnight, Ukrainian forces said Monday, in the largest in a string of record-breaking aerial assaults as peace talks stall.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday fired all 17 members of the advisory committee on immunization to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, saying that the move would restore the public’s trust in vaccines.

Ayoung woman posts a video that appears to show her holding her baby, Bento, and packing his bag for a trip to the hospital. She calls it “one of the busiest and scariest days for me.”

OTTAWA, Ontario — Declaring that Canada is too dependent on the United States for its defense, Prime Minister Mark Carney on Monday committed to having his country meet NATO’s spending target this year, seven years ahead of schedule.

KEALAKEHE — A day of fun-filled football activities and giving back to the community was hosted Saturday at Kealakehe High School’s Waverider Stadium.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander learned a lesson to open the NBA Finals.

Tommy Edman drove in three runs to power the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers past the St. Louis Cardinals Sunday 7-3 to avoid a three-game sweep.

Dozens of people across seven states, most of them in the West, have become ill in a salmonella outbreak linked to a recall of 1.7 million eggs, federal safety regulators said.

Elon Musk’s blowup with President Donald Trump may have doomed Washington’s most potent partnership, but the billionaire’s signature cost-cutting project has become deeply embedded in Trump’s administration and could be there to stay.

Gov. Josh Green may veto more bills this year than he did in each of his first two terms as the state’s chief executive, including one to regulate electric bicycles and motorcycles on Hawaii roads. The governor informed state lawmakers Friday of his intent to possibly veto 19 bills.

Six East Hawaii legislators, all Democrats, updated the Hawaii Island Chamber of Commerce on May 29 about measures passed and progress made during the recently wrapped session of the state Legislature.

LOS ANGELES — Tensions boiled over in Los Angeles on Sunday for a third day, hours after President Donald Trump took the extraordinary action of ordering at least 2,000 National Guard members to assist immigration agents clashing with demonstrators.

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Just because Kilmar Abrego Garcia is back on U.S. soil to face criminal charges after being wrongfully deported to a prison in El Salvador does not mean that the Trump administration’s troubles in the monthslong civil case have come to an end.

The arrest and apparent injury of a prominent California union leader at an immigration protest has drawn condemnation from across the labor movement.

JERUSALEM — The Israeli Foreign Ministry said early today that a Gaza-bound ship carrying a dozen pro-Palestinian activists and some aid had been diverted toward Israeli shores and that its passengers were expected to return to their home countries.

A group of 97 patients had long-standing multiple myeloma, a common blood cancer that doctors consider incurable, and faced a certain, and extremely painful, death within about a year.

Before members of Congress vote on the budget package that President Donald Trump is about to send them, they might consider watching the adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s “Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light,” which recently concluded on PBS’ Masterpiece.

SAN FRANCISCO — Two years ago, United Nations Plaza was vying for the title of “Saddest Place in San Francisco.” A sunny brick promenade surrounded by government buildings, the plaza had become a trash-strewn dumping ground for the city’s most vexing problems.

One component of the House Republicans’ newly passed tax bill is a small, temporary expansion to the child tax credit, meant to help nudge up the birth rate and enable more parents (mostly mothers) to opt out of paid work.

The membership card that gets you a $1.50 hot dog combo meal will not, in fact, get you past Transportation Security Administration agents.

Southern Baptists plan to vote this week on acting to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage 10 years ago this month.

OKINAWA, Japan — The ship-slaying missiles of the Japanese army’s 7th Regiment are mounted aboard dark green trucks that