Saint Louis junior Hunter Berger completed an ILH four‑weight slam Saturday as Kamehameha captured both boys' and girls' team titles at the league finals. Top wrestlers now shift focus to the state meet.

A $10M, five‑year grant will let HPU fully fund tuition for healthcare students who pledge to serve rural Hawaiʻi, part of a statewide rural health transformation plan.

A Senate committee advanced SB3000 to let Hawai‘i’s attorney general and insurers sue fossil‑fuel companies for climate‑related costs, aiming to shore up the state’s fragile insurance market.

Warm, breezy trades return to Honolulu this weekend; gusts could top 35 mph Sunday and small boats are on alert through Monday morning.

The Hawaii Board of Education approved statewide limits on student phone use, banning devices during school hours for elementary and middle schools and restricting high school phone use during class.

Senators delayed a plan to shift Mauna ʻAla’s management, forming a working group and setting a two‑year deadline for recommendations. The move follows months of dispute over the curator selection.

A new study finds Oahu's hotels generated roughly $12 billion in economic activity last year and supported nearly 64,000 jobs.

A 72-year-old man was struck and later died after a car reversed out of a Kalihi driveway Tuesday night, Honolulu police say.

A UH-led global study maps zoantharians and finds weak genetic differences across oceans; researchers warn these reef relatives can displace corals in stressed habitats.

National backlash over immigration enforcement has pushed Maui County to reconsider an FBI joint‑task‑force agreement that would deputize local officers. Council members, the police chief and immigrant advocates are locked in a debate over civil liberties and local control.

A solo ATV crash on Mud Lane near Honokaa killed a man late Saturday; police ordered an autopsy and say impairment is not currently suspected.

A council committee advanced Bill 60 to let HART study rail branches to UH Mānoa and West Oʻahu. Planning would be allowed, but no construction money is included.

Lawmakers introduced bills to require most cats be sterilized, create a spay-and-neuter fund and limit intact pets entering Hawaii, splitting conservationists and breeders. The measures carry fines and exemptions that lawmakers are still debating.