Sticker shock: Businesses beg for property tax relief
Hawaii Island business groups, facing steep increases in property values, are clamoring for relief from taxes set forth in a record high $689.9 million budget proposed by Mayor Mitch Roth.
Hugelkultur: A different approach to raised beds, mounds
I don’t have a giant property, so I strategize to get the most use of the garden I have, and that includes planting vegetables and herbs in raised beds and containers.
Seeing green: Incorporating this year-round color into your home is easy
Every year Pantone picks a color of the year for us all to enjoy. However, while I love periwinkle, this year is going to be all about green (for me, at least). I have been a big fan of green for years (and really, my whole life), but I am turning up the volume on my obsession. Greens are having a big year in 2022, from avocado to emerald and sage — and I love them all.
Jackson’s speech highlights US race struggles, progress
“In my family, it took just one generation to go from segregation to the Supreme Court of the United States.”
Missile kills at least 52 at crowded Ukrainian train station
KYIV, Ukraine — A missile hit a train station in eastern Ukraine where thousands had gathered Friday, killing at least 52 and wounding dozens more in an attack on a crowd of mostly women and children trying to flee a new, looming Russian offensive, Ukrainian authorities said.
Arrested Hawaii official accused of lying about education
HONOLULU — The head of training at the state Department of Public Safety was arrested on allegations that she lied about her educational background.
Food prices soar to record levels on Ukraine war disruptions
ROME — Prices for food commodities like grains and vegetable oils reached their highest levels ever last month largely because of Russia’s war in Ukraine and the “massive supply disruptions” it is causing, threatening millions of people in Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere with hunger and malnourishment, the United Nations said Friday.
Editorial: Evidence mounts of Russian war crimes, but is Putin getting the message?
Evidence of war crimes has mounted daily since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion to “denazify” Ukraine. Russian forces carrying out Putin’s orders targeted civilian areas and bombed clearly marked shelters. Convoys of non-combatants fleeing the fighting were hit with artillery — even after Russia had agreed to honor a safety corridor so refugees could leave. Video footage of civilian apartment buildings being blasted by tank fire eliminated any question of civilians merely being victims of collateral damage.
National and world news at a glance
Whitmer kidnap plot: 2 men acquitted, hung jury for 2 more
SpaceX launches 3 visitors to space station for $55M each
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX launched three rich businessmen and their astronaut escort to the International Space Station on Friday for more than a week’s stay, as NASA joins Russia in hosting guests at the world’s most expensive tourist destination.
Trans kids fear Alabama laws targeting medicine, bathrooms
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Ninth grader Harleigh Walker, 15, spends her time after school like many girls her age: doing homework, listening to Taylor Swift, collecting records and hanging out with friends.
Dolphins’ playful social habits form bonds, but spread virus
REEDVILLE, Va. — Three young male dolphins simultaneously break the water’s surface to breathe — first exhaling, then inhaling — before slipping back under the waves of the Chesapeake Bay.
A ‘new era of air pollution’ in the tropics could have a huge toll
Urban air pollution in the tropics is rapidly increasing and will lead to hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths if stronger regulations are not put in place, according to a new study.
Key particle weighs in a bit heavy, confounding physicists
The grand explanation physicists use to describe how the universe works may have some major new flaws to patch after a fundamental particle was found to have more mass than scientists thought.
Volcano Watch: How tephra deposits unlock the secrets of Kilauea volcano’s explosive past
I go to the summit of Kilauea most weeks to study the extent, thickness, and physical characteristics of a 400- to 500-year-old tephra deposit, the product of explosive eruptions and part of what is called the Keanakako‘i Tephra. The total deposit is up to 10 meters (30 feet) thick along the southern wall of Kilauea caldera, but it was created by fragment upon fragment of tephra falling to the ground from volcanic plumes rising out of the caldera.
Island Life: Perfect Puako
Blue skies make for a perfect day at Puako Bay in South Kohala.
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts:
Scheffler builds 5-shot Masters lead as Tiger makes weekend
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The wind roaring through the Georgia pines gave Tiger Woods and so many others all they could handle Friday in the Masters.
Donaldson lifts Yankees to opening win over Red Sox in 11th
NEW YORK — Fans packed Yankee Stadium and red, white and blue bunting was out on a sun-splashed afternoon, just like opening days before the pandemic.
Denver, Minnesota St match up in Frozen Four for NCAA title
BOSTON — Denver is going for a record-tying ninth NCAA hockey championship. Minnesota State is hoping for its first.
