The Associated Press
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California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaiʻi announced joint recommendations Wednesday about who should be vaccinated for seasonal respiratory viruses, including the flu and COVID-19, saying the Trump administration has jeopardized public health by politicizing the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. -
The PGA Tour won't be starting the new year at Kapalua on Maui. The tour says the Plantation course is so baked and brown from a drought and a water dispute on the island of Maui that it can't be ready for The Sentry on Jan. 8-11. -
A private school founded by Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop gives admissions preference to Native Hawaiian applicants. A leading opponent of affirmative action is challenging the admission policy of Kamehameha Schools, arguing it discriminates against non-Hawaiians. -
Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani and his agent have moved to dismiss a lawsuit accusing them of causing a real estate investor and broker to be fired from a $240 million luxury housing development in Hawaiʻi. The lawsuit was filed in August by developer Kevin J. Hayes Sr. and real estate broker Tomoko Matsumoto. -
A former settlement for people with Hansen's disease on Molokaʻi that’s been closed to tours and religious pilgrimages is reopening this month. Kalaupapa National Historical Park says it was closed since the COVID-19 pandemic because the disease posed a threat to its last remaining elderly patients. -
Forecasters say Hurricane Kiko has weakened into a tropical storm but still could create life-threatening surf and rip currents in Hawaiʻi. The storm is forecast to pass to the north of the Hawaiian Islands on Tuesday and Wednesday as it continues to weaken. -
Kapalua Golf Resort has been without irrigation water for seven days as it grows worried about keeping the Plantation course in shape for the PGA Tour season opener. Kapalua decided to shut down the golf course Tuesday to use what little water was available to the resort.
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Ten Alaska residents pleaded not guilty to voter misconduct or other charges. Their cases have drawn renewed attention to the complex citizenship status for people born in the U.S. territory of American Samoa. -
A grand jury has indicted two civilian workers on charges they caused the Navy to provide the Hawaiʻi Department of Health with false information about jet fuel that spilled from a Pearl Harbor storage facility. The indictment alleges John Floyd and Nelson Wu provided the Navy with inaccurate information about a May 2021 spill, which occurred six months before the fuel got in the drinking water. -
Two tropical cyclones in the eastern Pacific Ocean have gained strength. The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Lorena is expected to become a hurricane off Mexico's western coast. Meanwhile, Hurricane Kiko has intensified with winds above 100 mph as it travels west over open waters. Kiko is a Category 2 hurricane, but no watches or warnings are associated with it, and there are no hazards affecting land.
