Doyle McManus: Why Joe Biden should read his former boss’ new memoir
Former President Barack Obama has some advice for Joe Biden.
Commentary: How Justice Alito is openly testing the bounds of judicial conduct
Last week, Justice Samuel Alito delivered a rousing keynote address to the annual convention of the Federalist Society, arguably the nation’s most influential conservative legal group.
County starting abandoned vehicle removal program
The Department of Environmental Management’s Derelict/Abandoned Vehicle Section is initiating a year-round program that is designed to assist Hawaii County property owners with the disposal of derelict vehicles left on their private property.
Theft, forgery charges against Hilo attorney dropped
Felony charges of first-degree theft and second-degree forgery against a Hilo attorney have been dropped.
Mountain View woman accused of multiple offenses
A 31-year old Mountain View woman facing numerous drug and firearms charges after allegedly attempting to flee from police Nov. 11 in Fern Acres subdivision remains in custody at Hawaii Community Correctional Center, unable to post $144,000 bail.
Libraries welcome back patrons with Wiki Visits
13 new COVID cases; Civil Defense talks clusters
Thirteen new cases of COVID-19 were reported Friday on the Big Island.
Lieutenant governor pushes back against criticism over testing, touts low infection rates
Lt. Gov. Josh Green contends that the state’s COVID-19 surveillance testing program is doing well, despite criticism this week from Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell.
Daily COVID-19 deaths in US reach highest level since May
The surging coronavirus is taking an increasingly dire toll across the U.S. just as a vaccine appears close at hand, with the country now averaging over 1,300 COVID-19 deaths per day — the highest level since the calamitous spring in and around New York City.
Trump tries to leverage power of office to subvert Biden win
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump sought to leverage the power of the Oval Office on Friday in an extraordinary attempt to block President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, but his pleas to Michigan lawmakers to overturn the will of their constituents appeared to have left them unswayed.
In Brief: November 21, 2020
Biden wants Congress to pass virus aid in lame-duck session
Island Life: Star streaks
A 4-6 a.m. long exposure taken Tuesday morning near the Royal Kona Resort. (Georg Balandran/Community contributor)
New device puts music in your head with no headphones
LONDON — Imagine a world where you move around in your own personal sound bubble. You listen to your favorite tunes, play loud computer games, watch a movie or get navigation directions in your car — all without disturbing those around you.
Blue Ring Nebula appears to be youngest known example of two merged stars
Maunakea – In 2004, scientists with NASA’s space-based Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) spotted an object unlike any they’d seen before in our Milky Way galaxy: a large, faint blob of gas with a star at its center. Though it doesn’t actually emit light visible to the human eye, GALEX captured the blob in ultraviolet (UV) light and thus appeared blue in the images; subsequent observations also revealed a thick ring structure within it. So the team nicknamed it the Blue Ring Nebula. Over the next 16 years, they studied it with multiple Earth- and space-based telescopes, including W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawaii, but the more they learned, the more mysterious it seemed.
Volcano Watch: How has topography been modeled at Hawaii’s volcanoes?
Modeling topography on active volcanoes is unlike doing so in any other setting, because dramatic changes can occur on timescales far shorter than a human lifetime. For example, in 2018 at Kilauea, approximately 1 cubic kilometer of rock volume (0.25 cubic miles) was lost at the volcano’s summit and deposited on the lower East Rift Zone. So, topographic models can become outdated relatively quickly, and we need to update them accordingly.
Sharks wash up on beaches, stabbed by swordfish
The first victim washed up in September 2016. Police in Valencia, Spain, saw a blue shark dying in the surf along a tiny stretch of beach. They lugged the 8-foot corpse to the yard behind the police station. Then they called Jaime Penadés-Suay, who soon suspected foul play.
Hawaiian corals caught in the act of adaptation
Coral reefs are among the most highly biodiverse ecosystems on Earth, yet it is not clear what drives speciation and diversification in the ocean, where there are few physical barriers that could separate populations. Diversity in Hawaiian corals is likely driven by coevolution between the coral host, the algal symbiont (algae living in close and prolonged interaction) and the microbial community. That’s according to a study led by the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB).
WSU, former Saint Louis QB to miss game vs. Stanford
PULLMAN, Wash. — Former Saint Louis School and Washington State quarterback Jayden de Laura has tested positive for COVID-19 and won’t play in Saturday’s game at Stanford, according to a published report Friday.
University of Hawaii looking to buck history against Boise State
The Boise State football team’s magic number is 808.
Free agency opens: Fox and Kings agree on $163 million deal
On the first night of free agency, De’Aaron Fox was the first huge winner.