The Associated Press
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It has been almost 50 years since the U.S. government established that Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders and their accomplishments be recognized annually across the nation. What started as just one week in May has evolved into a monthlong tribute of events in cities big and small. -
The Trump administration plans to rewrite part of the Endangered Species Act that prohibits harming the habitats of endangered and threatened species. Environmentalists say that could lead to the extinction of some endangered species due to logging, mining, development and other activities. -
Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a U.S. naval captain ordered his battleship to hold a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot who died slamming his fighter plane into the American vessel. The funeral following the Battle of Okinawa is one of the more unusual and little-known episodes of World War II. -
Trump's new energy order could make Hawaiʻi's climate initiatives a target of the Justice DepartmentA new executive order from President Donald Trump that's part of his effort to invigorate energy production launches the possibility that his Department of Justice will go to court against state laws aimed at slashing planet-warming greenhouse gas pollution from fossil fuels. -
Gerhardt Konig's wife alleges they were hiking in Honolulu last month when he grabbed her by the arms and started pushing her toward the edge of a cliff before attempting to inject her with a syringe and then bashing her head with a rock. -
A Hawaiʻi boat captain who rebuilt her whale-watching tour business after losing three boats in the deadly 2023 Lahaina wildfire captured iPhone footage of her golden retriever barking excitedly when a humpback swam near them over the weekend. Chrissy Lovitt's video shows the whale poking its head out, seemingly greeting Macy the golden retriever. -
Richard Chamberlain, the handsome hero of the 1960s television series "Dr. Kildare" who found a second career as "king of the miniseries," has died at age 90. Chamberlain died Saturday night in Waimānalo, Hawaiʻi, of complications following a stroke. That is according to publicist Harlan Boll. -
Police say a Maui doctor tried to use two syringes on his wife after pushing her off an Oʻahu hiking trail and hitting her head with a rock. -
Since the 2023 Maui fires that destroyed Lahaina, communities across Hawaiʻi have sought ways to protect themselves from more destructive fires wrought by decades of climate change, urban development, and detrimental land use policies. -
Taiwan’s Defense Ministry says an unusually large number of Chinese military ships, planes and drones entered the airspace and waters surrounding the self-governing island between Sunday and Monday.
