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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Scientists monitoring Alaska's volcanoes have been forced to shut down stations that provi...
HONOLULU (AP) — Volunteers planted 100 endangered Mauna Kea silversword plants on the slopes of the Big Island volcano ...
LIHUE, Hawaii (AP) — A study is shedding new light on great white sharks spotted occasionally in waters surrounding the...
KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — Planners are seeking input on future transportation improvements at a Big Island ocean scien...
HONOLULU (AP) — The House Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection has moved forward a bill to amend Hawai`i...
SEATTLE (AP) — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says Japan has provided $5 million to help pay f...
KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch for the Big Island.The watch wil...
The Island of Hawai`i remains under a Flash Flood Watch through this evening. Forecasters say moist and unstable conditions a...
HONOLULU (AP) — Strong winds toppled trees and downed utility poles on Oahu, while leaving hundreds of customers withou...
HONOLULU (AP) — The Army is asking the public to comment on its plans to study marine life near Makua Valley where comm...
HILO, Hawaii (AP) — The Big Island is taking an important step toward a complete ban on plastic shopping bags next year...
HONOLULU (AP) — An earthquake rattled Hawaii Island early Saturday, but there were no reports of serious damage or inju...
KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — Volunteers are needed for this year's humpback whale count.As many as 12,000 of humpback...
HILO, Hawaii (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is pursuing plans that could almost double the size of the Hakal...
VOLCANO, Hawaii (AP) — A small earthquake has struck the east coast of the Big Island of Hawaii but no damages or injur...
HONOLULU (AP) — University of Hawaii scientists are studying chemical weapons the Army dumped in deep water off Oahu de...
HILO, Hawaii (AP) — The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory says lava is flowing from the Kilauea Volcano on the Big Island an...
WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — Maui County is looking for a company to convert the island's solid waste into energy.The Mau...
HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK, Hawaii (AP) — Hawaii Volcanoes National Park officials are urging motorists to slow dow...
(Ken Hupp - KPUA) Police are stepping up efforts to stem the rising death toll on Big Island Highways which has more than dou...
HILO, Hawaii (AP) — A volcano on the Big Island is putting on quite a show.Kilauea is actually erupting from two crater...
(Ken Hupp - KPUA) There are signs to indicate that Kilauea Volcano may be headed for an explosive eruption. Scientists at the...
(Ken Hupp - KPUA) Police are asking the public to be on the lookout for a stolen homemade flatbed utility trailer, that was l...
HONOLULU (AP) — The National Weather Service is maintaining a high surf warning for the north and west facing shores fr...
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii's coffee farmers saw production go down but prices go up.According to a government report, t...
(Ken Hupp - KPUA) Two people were rescued Sunday after a wave washed them into the ocean along the rocky coastline at Keokea ...
HONOLULU (AP) — A third man is charged in connection with transporting invasive game animals from the Big Island to Mau...
HONOLULU (AP) — A humpback whale spotted in Hawaiian waters more than three months ahead of schedule for the mammals...
RED CROSS HURRICANE ISAAC RELIEFSince Hurricane Isaac struck the Gulf Coast, thousands of families have evacuated and turned ...
HONOLULU (AP) — Persistent drought conditions in parts of Hawaii are taking a toll on ranchers who can't grow enoug...
HONOLULU (AP) — A gas company is seeking federal approval to import liquefied natural gas to Hawaii from the mainland.H...
(Ken Hupp - KPUA) SolarCity and the state Department of Transportation marked the completion of a 112-kilowatt solar photovol...
Monday was an important day for renewable energy on Hawai`i Island, as the Big Island Biodiesel plant opened at the Shipman B...
Hawai`i County has taken the first step toward greater self-reliance by completing the state’s first ever Food Self-Suf...
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii will get more than $128,000 to help protect and preserve Hawaiian monk seals, green sea turt...
HONOLULU (AP) — The public is being asked to stay away from two newborn Hawaiian monk seals on Kauai.Federal officials ...
HONOLULU (AP) — Repairs to the Hanawana Land Bridge on Maui are complete.The bridge was damaged during heavy rains in M...
In a released statement, the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) says to protect Hawaii island from the impacts o...
Researchers are planning to sail from Japan to Hawaii to study debris dragged out to sea by tsunamis on March 11 last year.Th...
The County Department of Public Works has announced that tree trimming along the old Mamalahoa highway will close the westbou...
Tsunami waves generated by the magnitude-9 earthquake in Japan last March dragged 3 million to 4 million tons of debris into ...
HONOLULU (AP) — Continuing vog has caused extensive damage to Big Island vegetable crops, like leafy greens, orchards, ...
Rear Admiral Charles Ray of the United States Coast Guard was in Hilo today to meet with Mayor Billy Kenoi to sign a Memorand...
Gov. Neil Abercrombie is proposing that Hawaii spend $5 million to protect watersheds in the upcoming fiscal year.Abercro...
A bird conservation group says an endangered short-tailed albatross chick has hatched in the far northwestern edge of the Haw...
A single family structure house in the Fern Forest subdivision was destroyed in a fire Saturday night. Multiple fire crews re...
A single family structure house in the Fern Forest subdivision was destroyed in a fire Saturday night. Multiple fire crews re...
A single family structure house in the Fern Forest subdivision was destroyed in a fire Saturday night. Multiple fire crews re...
HONOLULU (AP) — Three, possibly four, critically endangered Hawaiian monk seals have been deliberately killed in Hawaii...
PUUNENE, Hawaii (AP) — The Army Corps of Engineers is looking to remove toxic chemicals found in a military landfill at...
HONOLULU (AP) — The federal government has decided not to designate the wekiu bug — a rare insect that lives amon...
HONOLULU (AP) — Federal officials are examining a photo circulating on the Internet of a man who appears to be straddli...
HONOLULU (AP) — A University of Hawaii astronomer has captured the first direct image of a planet forming around a star...
WAIMEA, Hawaii (AP) — A series of earthquakes have struck the Big Island of Hawaii.The U.S. Geological Survey says a ma...
KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) The Cooke Foundation is providing a $12,000 grant for a Big Island dryland restoration project. ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A magnitude-7.2 earthquake rattled Fiji in the Pacific Ocean on Friday morning, the U.S. Geological Sur...
Hawaii County officials from the waste water division responded to a sewage spill on Puueo and Wailuku Street intersection ...
HILO, Hawaii (AP) The Hawaii County Council wants places on the neighbor islands for dropping off electronic waste for recy...
HONOLULU (AP) — The Humane Society of the United States is leading an effort to give wild donkeys in Hawaii new homes. ...
HONOLULU (AP) — A new study gives Hawaii Volcanoes National Park low ratings. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Mon...
HONOLULU (AP) — The destruction of thousands of papaya trees on the Big Island has some farmers speculating it's the wo...
HONOLULU (AP) — A community meeting is being held on the Big Island before more than 100 Wiakoloa donkeys are moved to ...
LIHUE, Hawaii (AP) — An aggressive Hawaiian monk seal officials planned to euthanize in order to protect pups is nowher...
HILO, Hawaii (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency says there are concerns with how Hawaii health officials plant ...
HONOLULU (AP) — A program allowing people to sell renewable energy to Hawaii's power grid is being revamped to attract ...
HONOLULU (AP) — Volunteers are to gather for three days of cleaning up illegal dump sites on the Big Island.The cleanup...
HILO, Hawaii (AP) — A corpse plant at a Hilo zoo is on the verge of making a big stink.Panaewa Rainforest Zoo officials...
HONOLULU (AP) — The state says a ball python has been turned in to authorities on Oahu.The Department of Agriculture sa...
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii has been largely successful in preventing snakes from entering the island paradise over the ye...
Big Island police are investigating the destruction of 10 acres of papaya trees in Puna. On Tuesday morning (July 19) Puna pa...
HONOLULU (AP) — A new study on a dolphin species shows the mammals use offshore eddies, or currents, in Hawaiian wate...
HONOLULU (AP) Hawaii's largest wind power project is set to be built on Oahu now that a study of its environmental impact has...
University of Hawai`i at Hilo students enrolled in the Marine Science (MARE) Summer Program were recently treated to a rare h...
HILO, Hawaii (AP) — Rescuers on the Big Island have recovered the body of a man swept away in a flash flood. The Hawaii...
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie has signed a law that moves the state toward a system where residents coul...
KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — Big Island landowners and state officials are trying to propagate one of the ...
We always brace whenever there's a quake anywhere along the Pacific Rim. Today's powerful 7.8 magnitude shaker in New Zealand...
NEW YORK (AP) — A powerful magnitude-7.8 earthquake rattled New Zealand's remote Kermadec Islands in the Pacific Ocea...
WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — Efforts are under way to give bus riders on Maui a place to wait that's protected from the sun, ...
HONOLULU (AP) — Gov. Neil Abercrombie has signed six more bills into law, including one that prohibits restraining pris...
HONOLULU (AP) — An environmental action group has ranked Hawaii's beach water the fourth cleanest in the nation. A repo...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Earthquake Information Center says a major earthquake with a preliminary magnitude ...
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii Lt. Gov Brian Schatz is warning residents to prepare for hurricane season.Schatz said June 1 mar...
KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — A Big Island emergency room was evacuated and closed for several hours after an apparent lea...
HONOLULU (AP) — A growing endangered Hawaiian monk seal population around the main Hawaiian Islands is prompting the fe...
The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch for Hawaii Islandeffective today through this evening.A flash flo...
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