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Tourists who visit Hawaii in their millions every year are facing the prospect of paying a special visitors tax to protect the “environment” they travel from around the world to experience.

Air Traffic Control (ATC) confirmed that a “large white balloon” has been spotted just northeast of Hawaii.

A five foot boulder crashed into a Hawaii house and narrowly missed a woman inside the residence who was standing nearby.

A man fishing off the coast of Hawaii has been missing since Sunday after being dragged off a boat by a giant tuna, officials say.

Hawaii Democrat Rep. Kai Kahele, who lost in his state’s governor race, may have “misused official resources for campaign or political purposes,” according to a report from the Office of Congressional Ethics. 

HONOLULU — Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, has started to erupt for the first time in nearly four decades, prompting volcanic ash and debris to fall nearby, authorities said Monday.

Two native Hawaiian men have been found guilty of a hate crime after punching, kicking, and beating a white man with a shovel in Maui in 2014.

Good Samaritans on the island of Hawaii, also known as the Big Island, helped save a teen girl on Saturday who had allegedly been kidnapped the day before. The suspect was in custody hours later. 

A former Nevada deputy attorney general has been accused in the murder of a 19-year-old woman in Hawaii 50 years ago.

Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) issued a “call to arms” on the Senate floor while debating a national abortion ban. 

Two pilots made Hawaiian Airlines history as they became the first mother and daughter team to fly together.

Harris and Blackburn were both in the Indo-Pacific region this week, but one was on a lengthy vacation while the other took on China.

The OnlyFans model accused of killing her boyfriend in Miami in April was arrested Wednesday, Yahoo! News reported Thursday.

Volcanic environments in Hawaii are apparently full of mysterious microbes, a study reveals, with uncharacterized communities of bacteria.

Hawaii teacher Alden Bunag was arrested for having sex with a 13-year-old former student and sharing the pictures and video with a Pennsylvania teacher, according to federal prosecutors.

A Hawaii man is still driving around with a custom license plate that reads “FCKBLM” after repeatedly being ordered by the state’s Department of Customer Servies to forfeit it, according to a report.

MMA coach Jason Parillo says that Olympic gold medalist and retired MMA fighter BJ Penn is the perfect candidate for Hawaii’s governor.

A couple in Locust Grove, Georgia, recently wed to help fulfill their son’s bucket list after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Honolulu Mayor Rick Blackgirdi this week hinted that a mask mandate could be returning to the city, over two years after the start of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. 

Actor Ezra Miller gave cops a stern warning as they apprehended him in Hawaii earlier this year, telling arresting officers to get their pronouns in correct order or face legal consequences for hate crime. Addressing him as ‘sir’ not ‘they’ was the spark for the altercation.

Hawaii Democrat Rep. Kai Kahele, who also works at Hawaiian Airlines and was accused of moonlighting as a pilot while voting by proxy in Washington, DC, will reportedly retire from Congress at the end of his term.

Actor Ezra Miller — who played The Flash in “Justice League” and will reprise the iconic superhero in the upcoming standalone movie — was fined $500 after pleading no contest to a disorderly conduct charge in Hawaii.

The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), a non-partisan ethics watchdog organization, demanded an investigation into Hawaii Democrat Rep. Kai Kahele for “presenting conflict of interest concerns and abuse of proxy voting.”

Actor Ezra Miller — who played The Flash in Justice League and will reprise the iconic superhero in the upcoming standalone movie — was arrested on Tuesday in Hawaii for an alleged assault.

Hawaii Democrat Rep. Kai Kahele has avoided voting in-person “due to the ongoing public health emergency” since January in Washington, DC while collecting his salary as a commercial pilot for Hawaiian Airlines, an international airline that lobbies Congress for legislation he has jurisdiction over.

For many years, a woman named Shreevie Kenner in Evergreen, Colorado, has made it her mission to entertain children riding her bus with costumes and gifts.

A powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake rocked Japan Wednesday, leaving two million homes in and around Tokyo without power, per reports.

Lawmakers in Hawaii have advanced legislation that will force insurance companies to cover “gender affirming” medical treatment for people who claim to be “transgender” or the opposite of their biological sex.

Hawaii is the final state to lift its mask mandate, which will end on March 25, although it is leaving the door open to reinstitute the mandate if necessary, Gov. David Ige (D) announced on Tuesday

Hawaii stands as the final state that still has a mask mandate, over two years after the start of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

The state of Hawaii has reversed course and will not be mandating that travelers to the islands show proof of a booster shot.

Nine states, as well as Washington, DC, still have mask mandates in place roughly two years into the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

Travelers to Hawaii will now have to show proof of having received the coronavirus booster shot in order to be considered fully vaccinated. 

The National and Pacific Tsunami Warning Centers have issued tsunami advisories for the entire West Coast, Hawaii, and parts of Alaska as a volcano erupted near Tonga late Friday.

Facebook (now Meta) founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has added yet more land to his already-vast holdings of real estate on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.

The Nebraska State Patrol (NSP) accidentally sent an emergency alert to Nebraskans’ cellphones after 11:00 p.m. on Tuesday.