A fifth person has died from injuries suffered during a massive explosion of illegal fireworks at a Honolulu home over New Year's, police said Tuesday. The 29-year-old man was one of six patients flown to a hospital in Arizona for treatment earlier this month because Hawaii's only burn care facility hit capacity with other patients

An arrest has been made 48 years after 16-year-old Hawaii girl Dawn Momohara was found in a Honolulu high school.

An unusually strong storm system is moving toward Hawaii and will bring significant impacts to the islands later this week.

Amid Trump’s immigration crackdown across the country, Hawaii law enforcement teams have been hitting locations across Oahu daily, targeting those with criminal records. On Sunday around noon, residents on Palani Avenue in the Kapahulu area reported two unmarked vans with ICE agents taking one of their neighbors into custody.

Susie Chun Oakland arrived to a crime scene at McKinley High School in Honolulu that March morning nearly a half century ago.

The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a Flood Advisory on Sunday warning of minor flooding on roads, in streams, and in poorly drained areas. While the flood warning for Oahu has expired, most Hawaiian islands remain under a flood watch as residents are bracing for potential future downpours as storms remain a threat this week.

Gov. Josh Green battled a measles outbreak that killed 83 people, mostly children. President Trump wants Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a vaccine skeptic, as his health policy chief.

Albert "Ian" Schweitzer, who spent over two decades in prison for the killing of Dana Ireland, was released in 2023 based on new evidence.

The Coast Guard has called off its search for a missing teenage couple, Samantha Chun and Joey Fujioka, believed to have gone swimming one night last week off of Oahu's North Shore in Hawaii

Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. On the operational side, ridership is disappointing for the first leg to open between Kapolei and Aloha Stadium. City transit officials have fingers tightly crossed it’ll improve when the segment to Middle Street opens,

Maliu Tauheluhelu Maliu Tauheluhelu The 40-year-old leader of a group that operated illegal game rooms, online gambling applications and sold methamphetamine and cocaine out of a restaurant and snack shops on Oahu and Maui was sentenced Thursday to more than 16 years in federal prison.

In the latest edition of Living Akamai with Kay Mukaigawa of Engel and Volkers Honolulu, Nelson Oyadomari, Regional Manager at Primary Residential Mortgage, Inc. (PRMI), shared his expertise on