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SOUTH KONA (HawaiiNewsNow) - A federal immigration enforcement operation was conducted in West Hawaii Wednesday afternoon, increasing concerns among the island’s Latino community. The Department of Homeland Security Investigations said agents are looking for “unaccompanied alien children who have allegedly entered...

More than a year after the Honolulu City Council created a program to reduce the city’s backlog of building permit applications, the city’s permitting department director said she’s close to starting the program. The delay, said Department of Planning and Permitting Director Dawn Takeuchi Apuna, stems from...

WAIANAE, Hawai'i (Island News) -- A 45-year-old motorcyclist was seriously injured in a crash on Farrington Highway in Waianae on Wednesday just after 8 p.m. The motorcyclist was traveling westbound when he collided with a driver who ran a stop sign and continued driving without stopping to assist or provide...

HONOLULU (Island News) – The Honolulu Emergency Medical Services (EMS) responded to an accident on the H-1 Freeway. On Thursday, March 6, 2025, around 9:30 a.m. a two-vehicle rollover crash was reported on the H-1 Fwy EB direction. Officials state that one patient refused to go with EMS and...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A truck flipped upside down on the H-1 Freeway, snarling eastbound traffic during the morning commute Thursday. It happened shortly before 9 a.m. just under the Kaamilo Street overpass near the 13A Kaneohe exit. Eastbound traffic was brought to a standstill while crews on the scene worked...

The Matson container that arrived at Honolulu’s Sand Island was supposed to hold metal and plastic fasteners from an Illinois company, less than 5,000 pounds worth based on its shipping papers. So why, port officials wondered, did the cargo weigh almost three times that much?. When they opened up...

Today, the address has changed to 88 Piʻikoi St, which is now the site of the Hawaiki Tower condo and the KHON2 News Station.

Witnesses at the scene tell Hawaii News Now the operation occurred at a coffee farm in South Kona.

Step inside Kim Chee II, and it’s 1977 again. Walk down the aisle, and you’ll see the same diner-style vinyl booths, scenic oil paintings and Korean dolls in a glass case. The menu hasn’t changed either. This is where you come for heaping plates of meat jun, big-bone kalbi, fried mandoo and BBQ chicken, served with...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Court records filed last month explain what may have happened to the body of the 6-year-old Waimanalo girl who police said was murdered by her adoptive parents. Isabella “Ariel” Kalua was reported missing in September 2021, according to Honolulu police, but Isaac “Sonny” Kalua and Lehua...