Hawaii News

Hilton Hotels Corporation announced today that long-time Hawaii hotel executive Jerry Gibson has been named area vice president of Hawaii and managing director of Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa.

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and spent part of his early childhood years here.

A sloshing lava lake about 330 feet below the vent rim of Halemaumau Crater was recently discovered by Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientist, who were in a helicopter that was hovering over the area.

Hawaii this year has hardly been a paradise for travelers. This spring, thousands were stranded when Aloha Airlines and ATA halted flights.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights and the Hawaii Department of Human Services have signed a voluntary agreement to improve language assistance services for limited ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. When Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle took to the stage at the Republican National Convention, her glowing introductory speech of vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin caught at least one political ...

Education officials are proposing to trim night security patrols at 76 schools after an initial plan to cut the public school athletics budget failed.

A state prison inmate claims in a federal lawsuit that a guard asked him to kill her son-in-law. Jeffrey Rice of Milwaukee was at the Dodge Correctional Institution in 2006 for armed robbery.

Mere worlds, no matter how eloquently delivered are no match for results actually acheived.

When the University of Hawaii Warriors football season starts this year at Aloha Stadium, spectators can expect to see some ongoing changes to the stadium.

Investors in Hawai'i technology businesses were able to avoid paying $100 million in 2006 state taxes, the highest use ever of a state tax credit aimed at boosting investment in tech companies and in film and ...

T. PAUL, Minn. - They're not twins and their politics are not quite identical, but Hawaii Gov.

Hawaiian rights activist Dennis Pu'uhonua 'Bumpy' Kanahele's planned constitutional convention for Native Hawaiians won't take place next month as some had envisioned.

A Native Hawaiian leader has promised to file a contested case against the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope and take it to court, if necessary.

The Friends of Mel Rapozo have announced that their mayoral candidate has been endorsed by the Hawaii Fire Fighters Association .

Why not Hawaii's Governor Lingle? Like Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Lingle is her state's first female governor who upset established politicians in her rise from Maui mayor to the state's highest office.

The panel will include two farmers from Kauai, Oahu, Maui, Molokai and the Big Island.

Hawaii's Republican Gov. Linda Lingle enthusiastically endorsed Alaska's Gov. Sarah Palin as Sen.

DENVER>> Recognition of native Hawaiians is back in the Democratic Party's national platform.

The Democratic Party platform adopted at the national convention in Denver includes support for Native Hawaiian self-determination and sovereignty.