The Associated Press

Japan this week confirmed that two Chinese aircraft carriers have operated together for the first time in the Pacific. That fuels concern about Beijing’s rapidly expanding military activity far beyond its borders.

Fifty trucks will spend five months hauling Lahaina wildfire debris to a landfill in the center of Maui starting next Monday. Maui County says there's enough debris to fill five football fields five stories high.

A criminal case in Alaska involving nearly a dozen people born in American Samoa is highlighting concerns about birthright citizenship and voting by people who are not U.S. citizens, issues that have been prominent in the early months of President Donald Trump’s second term. American Samoa is the only U.S. territory where residents are not automatically granted citizenship by virtue of having been born on American soil.

A Hawaiʻi-based U.S. Army soldier has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for killing his wife and her unborn child last summer. The sentence issued Thursday is the maximum allowed under the law.

A salvage team is expected to arrive early next week at the scene of a cargo ship that was carrying about 3,000 vehicles to Mexico when it caught fire in waters off Alaska’s Aleutian island chain. The ship’s management company, London-based Zodiac Maritime said the Morning Midas remained afloat as of Thursday morning.

A judge has denied a request to keep proceedings private in a divorce case for a Hawaiʻi anesthesiologist accused of attempting to kill his wife on a hiking trail. Gerhardt Konig's wife filed for divorce last month after he was indicted on an attempted murder charge.

A new class-action lawsuit alleges that the Honolulu Police Department has had a “longstanding pattern” of arresting people for driving under the influence without probable cause and due process. The plaintiffs want HPD’s practices to be deemed unconstitutional. The lawsuit does not seek monetary damages.

An Oregon man who quit his job at a tire company and liquidated his retirement savings to set sail for Hawaiʻi with his cat reached his destination Saturday. His arrival on Oʻahu ended a weekslong journey that he documented for his mass of followers on social media.

A judge has dismissed a petition for a temporary restraining order against a Maui anesthesiologist accused of attempting to kill his wife on a Honolulu hiking trail. Gerhardt Konig’s wife initially filed the petition after he allegedly pushed her toward the edge of a cliff, attempted to inject her with a syringe and then bashed her head with a rock.

Environmentalists are challenging in court President Donald Trump’s executive order that they say strips core protections from the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument and opens the area to harmful commercial fishing.