The Associated Press

Kobayashi's family reported her missing to law enforcement on Nov. 11 after relatives received “strange and cryptic, just alarming” text messages. Kobayashi’s mother and sister said they are “grateful” she has been found safe.

Luigi Nicholas Mangione was apparently living a charmed one: the grandson of a wealthy real estate developer, valedictorian of his elite Baltimore prep school and with degrees from one of the nation’s top private universities. Friends at an exclusive co-living space at the edge of touristy Waikīkī in Hawaiʻi where the 26-year-od Mangione once lived widely considered him a “great guy.”

The bombing of Pearl Harbor 83 years ago launched the United States into World War II. Two survivors returned to the Hawaiʻi military base for a remembrance ceremony on the attack's anniversary.

The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to Hawaiʻi’s gun-licensing law, though three justices expressed a willingness to hear arguments over the issue later. The majority did not explain their reasoning in a brief order on Monday declining to take the case.

The oldest-known wild bird in the world has laid an egg at the ripe age of 74, her first in four years. The Pacific Region of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service said in a Facebook post that the long-winged seabird named Wisdom has returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge at the northwestern edge of the Hawaiian Archipelago and laid what may be her 60th egg.

Conservationists say five Hawaiian crows have been released on Maui for the first time as part of an ongoing effort to return the species to its home. Officials with the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance say the ʻalalā were released on Maui on Tuesday.

Police say a Hawaiʻi woman who disappeared after landing in Los Angeles was seen crossing into Mexico alone with her luggage but has not reached out to her family. Officials say there is no evidence she's being trafficked or a victim of foul play. Police say the case is now classified as a "voluntary missing person."

Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te has arrived in Hawaii for a two-day transit in the U.S. as part of a trip to the South Pacific. The stopover in Hawaii and one planned for the territory of Guam have drawn fierce criticism from China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory.

West Maui residents devastated by last year's wildfire are awaiting the return of one of the nation's most prestigious basketball tournaments with mixed feelings.

A U.S. military watchdog says Navy officials lacked sufficient understanding of the risks of maintaining massive fuel storage tanks on top of a drinking water well at Pearl Harbor where spilled jet fuel poisoned more than 6,000 people.