Oahu beach home slides off bluff near famed surfing waves
HONOLULU — A home on the north shore of Oahu collapsed onto the beach this week in an area that is prone to beach erosion from high energy waves that draw professional surfers from around the world.
Virtual Ka’u Coffee Festival set for April 1-30
Tune in April 1-30 for the Virtual Ka‘u Coffee Festival.
Island Life: Kahua sunset
Kahua Ranch in Waimea at dusk.
Kalo nui: Kona couple unearths corm weighing nearly 50 pounds
A 50-pound kalo corm was harvested at Aina ‘Ahiu Farm in South Kona last month, making it possibly the largest taro ever recorded.
UN: Climate change to uproot millions, especially in Asia
JAKARTA, Indonesia — The walls of Saifullah’s home in northern Jakarta are lined like tree rings, marking how high the floodwaters have reached each year — some more than four feet from the damp dirt floor.
State of Union: Biden vows to check Russia, fight inflation
WASHINGTON — Addressing a concerned nation and anxious world, President Joe Biden vowed in his first State of the Union address Tuesday night to check Russian aggression in Ukraine, tame soaring U.S. inflation and deal with the fading but still dangerous coronavirus.
Ige: Safe Travels program will end March 25
HONOLULU — Hawaii plans to lift its COVID-19 quarantine requirement for travelers this month, meaning that starting on March 26 those arriving from other places in the U.S. won’t have to show proof of vaccination or a negative test to avoid sequestering themselves for five days.
Roth proposes $689.9M spending plan, a 13.1% increase
Buoyed by rising property values from a robust real estate market, the annual budget proposed Tuesday by Mayor Mitch Roth comes in at $689.9 million, a 13.1% increase over the previous year.
Russia takes aim at urban areas; Biden vows Putin will ‘pay’
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s leader decried Russia’s escalation of attacks on crowded urban areas as a blatant campaign of terror, while U.S. President Joe Biden warned that if his Russian counterpart weren’t made to “pay a price” for the invasion, the aggression wouldn’t stop with one country.
Obituaries: March 1, 2022
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State bill would remove redundant regulations for hemp farmers
Hawaii hemp farmers hope a bill moving through the state Senate will finally allow them to affordably sell products here.
Getting back to ‘normal’
With gathering sizes no longer limited on the Big Island, businesses are eager to return to normalcy but still face staffing woes.
National and world news at a glance
Texas investigating medical treatments for trans youth, lawsuit says
Letters to the Editor: March 2, 2022
Absolutely shameful
Editorial: The world stands with Ukraine
Not since 9/11 has an unprovoked hostility been so clearly defined as good versus evil. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has, if nothing else, sidestepped the usual vagaries of who started what or who is the victim and who is the aggressor. On the one side is Ukraine, a sovereign nation. the second largest in land mass in Europe. On the other is Russia’s authoritarian ruler, Vladimir Putin, with an enormous military and an unbridled desire to return his country back to the Soviet Union days.
Doyle McManus: Welcome to Cold War 2.0. It won’t be easy
No matter how Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine ends, it already marks a turning point in history: the end of a 30-year period of relative peace in Europe and a return to hostility between Russia and its neighbors — a kind of Cold War 2.0.
BIIF Wrestling: League champs reap the rewards of their labor
KAILUA-KONA – Twenty-seven BIIF wrestling champions, 27 different stories.
BIIF Wrestling: Hilo wrestlers collect eight weight divisions in sweeping team titles
KAILUA-KONA – Tyler Milare leads Hilo High’s wrestling room with a hands-on approach, putting on shorts every day in practice to get a feel for the strengths and weaknesses of each Viking.
MLB cancels opening day after sides fail to end lockout
JUPITER, Fla. — Major League Baseball’s financial fight cost regular-season games for the first time in 27 years when often acrimonious talks to end a management lockout collapsed Tuesday and Commissioner Rob Manfred scrapped March 31 openers.
No. 4 Duke routs Pitt 86-56 in Coach K’s last true road game
PITTSBURGH — Freshman guard Trevor Keels scored a career-high 27 points, Paolo Banchero added 21 and No. 4 Duke clinched at least a share of its 13th Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season title under coach Mike Krzyzewski with an 86-56 win over Pittsburgh on Tuesday night.
