Hilo hotel fire causes $2M in damage
The Hawaii Police Department has assumed the investigation of a Friday morning fire that caused an estimated $2 million damage to the shuttered Uncle Billy’s Hilo Bay Hotel on Banyan Drive.
Four sought on outstanding warrants
Hawaii Island police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating four individuals that have outstanding warrants for their arrests.
MLB, union meet for 1 1/2 hours, discuss next step in talks
NEW YORK — Deputy Commissioner Dan Halem and chief union negotiator Bruce Meyer met for 1 1/2 hours Thursday and discussed the major issues in the stalled talks to reach a deal that would end Major League Baseball’s lockout.
East-leading Heat spoil Durant’s return, edging Nets 113-107
NEW YORK — Bam Adebayo had 30 points, 11 rebounds and six assists and the Miami Heat spoiled Kevin Durant’s return, beating the Brooklyn Nets 113-107 on Thursday night.
BIIF boys volleyball: New faces trying to help Kamehameha defend D-I crown
Everyone is gone from the Kamehameha boys volleyball team that captured the BIIF title in 2019, the last year the state tournament was held.
Capitals snap 3-game skid behind Ovechkin’s 763rd goal
WASHINGTON — Alex Ovechkin and Evgeny Kuznetsov scored on the power play, Vitek Vanecek stopped all 36 shots he faced and the Washington Capitals snapped a three-game losing streak by beating the Eastern Conference-leading Carolina Hurricanes 4-0 Thursday night.
Purdue Pharma, US states agree to new opioid settlement
Purdue Pharma reached a nationwide settlement Thursday over its role in the opioid crisis, with the Sackler family members who own the company boosting their cash contribution to as much as $6 billion in a deal intended to staunch a flood of lawsuits facing the maker of OxyContin.
Bail reduction for man accused of child porn
A judge on Thursday reduced bail for a 20-year-old man police say circulated pornographic material involving a minor girl on social media.
Biden plan would tackle chronic gaps in mental health care
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s new plan to expand mental health and drug abuse treatment would pour hundreds of millions of dollars into suicide prevention, mental health services for youth, and community clinics providing 24/7 access to people in crisis.
Kyiv shrines, memorials with powerful symbolic value at risk
Kyiv, bracing for a potentially catastrophic Russian attack, is the spiritual heart of Ukraine.
As vaccine demand falls, states are left with huge stockpile
As demand for COVID-19 vaccines collapses in many areas of the U.S., states are scrambling to use stockpiles of doses before they expire and have to be added to the millions that have already gone to waste.
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New deal reached with states over opioids
Robert Pattinson helps a new Batman emerge from the darkness
Robert Pattinson isn’t morally opposed to superhero films. But he wasn’t exactly seeking them out before “The Batman” came along, either.
Young at Art keiki exhibit returns to EHCC
The Young at Art exhibition is back at the East Hawaii Cultural Center with a special display in Kalakaua Park.
Editorial: Testing positive for incompetence: The federal government’s free at-home COVID tests arrived way too late
On Jan. 18, the day the federal government’s website allowing Americans to order free at-home COVID tests opened (one day before its official launch, and the only time anything in this story happens ahead of schedule), we requested ours. At 1:44 p.m. came the U.S.P.S. order confirmation email, which added: “At home COVID-19 tests will ship free starting in late January.”
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Bill 111 will help end homelessness
Island Life: Life is sweet
A “Buddha Belly” sugar cane is seen at the Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden in Captain Cook.
Kona Bay Hotel purchased for $21M
A West Coast-based private equity firm recently purchased the iconic Kona Bay Hotel in the heart of Kailua Village.
Fuel in water deepens Native Hawaiians’ distrust of military
HONOLULU — A well-known adage in Hawaiian, ola i ka wai, means “water is life.”
Airport ‘serial stowaway’ pleads guilty, gets 3-plus years
CHICAGO — A 70-year-old woman with a history of slipping past security at airports and sneaking onto flights was sentenced on Thursday to more than three years in prison for trespassing at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport in 2019.
