Hawaii will raise visitor taxes to tackle climate change

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Gov. Josh Green is celebrating lawmakers’ decision to increase tourist taxes and dedicate the new money to what they call Hawaii’s climate emergency. Making it happen required compromise and resisting a threat from the cruise …

Push to make surfing an official high school sport in Hawaii gains traction

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A major surge of momentum is building to make surfing an official high school sport. Later this week, state lawmakers will vote on a bill that provides funding for surfing at the prep level. House Majority Leader and North Shore …

Hawaii's food insecurity at highest levels, as support from the federal government drops

There are more empty spaces on Hawaii Foodbank shelves, after a recent cut to funding from the federal government. "We normally carry about three to four weeks of inventory on hand at any given time. So all the food you see in the warehouse, we run …

Hawaii Foodbank faces federal cuts

Push to make surfing an official high school sport in Hawaii gains traction

Hawaii senator officially throws hat into ring to replace Durbin as Democratic whip

Hawaii Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz on Monday officially declared that he was seeking to replace Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin next year as the party's Senate Whip. The Illinois Democrat, who is in his fifth term in the upper chamber, announced …

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'Grave-robbed' human remains returned to Hawaii

Robbie MeredithBBC News NI education and arts correspondent ShareSave Kathryn Thomson with some of the group from Hawaii Ancestral human remains taken by a "grave robber" and brought to Belfast almost 200 years ago have begun their journey back …

Hawaii schools serve banana bread using local ulu flour

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Dozens of Hawaii public schools tested a new banana bread featuring local ulu, or breadfruit, flour this month. An estimated 240 pounds of ulu flour grown by local Hawaii farmers through the Hawaii Ulu Cooperative were …

Hawaii teen runs in honor of fallen first responders

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Honolulu teenager Raiden Barrientos never misses the Great Aloha Run. But now, the Stevenson Middle School eighth grader runs a very different kind of race. ”I mean, I like running and it’s for a good cause, too,” he said. The …