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Severe weather continues as another Kona Low hits the islands, causing flooding and damage, prompting road closures.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - At around 4:30 a.m. Sunday morning Honolulu police responded to a robbery in the Piikoi Street area. No arrests have been made at this time. The victim was cleaning a parking lot when he was approached by two male suspects. One suspect lifted his shirt, revealing a...

Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi and Oahu's top emergency officials commended the Oahu community for coming together and protecting their own when it mattered the most.

HONOLULU (Island News) – An armed robbery investigation is underway, with suspects still on the run, following an incident that happened early Sunday morning. According to the Honolulu Police Department (HPD) the incident occurred at approximately 4:30 a.m. in the Pi’ikoi St. area. It was reported that a...

HALEIWA, Hawaii –- As the damaging floods struck their small town on the north shore of Oahu, Nahooikaika and her boyfriend, Nuutea Vanbastolaer, both 18, had been watching the water rise on the dirt road in front of their house. Suddenly the floodwaters were at the window. It was...

A Waialua mother shared her harrowing escape as floodwaters rapidly rose around their home overnight. As Melodie Boa carried her three young children through chest-deep water, they fled to safety using a surfboard before eventually finding refuge at a shelter by Inspire Church in Mililani.

HONOLULU (Island News) -- A man in his 20s who was rescued near Magic Island suffered life-threatening injuries after he was swept into the ocean on Saturday afternoon. The Honolulu Ocean Safety Department was alerted about an unresponsive man near Magic Island at 5:13 p.m. on Saturday, March 21. The water emergency...

HONOLULU (KHON2) – The forecast remains largely on track, with showers and isolated thunderstorms continuing over the smaller islands, moving eastward. Heaviest of showers are currently over Maui County, specifically around the Lanai which has seen 1 to 2 inches of precipitation in the last 6 hours as of 7:30pm....

In my last column I argued that in Hawaiʻi incompetence is a bigger problem than corruption. Ironically, Hawaiʻi’s current corruption investigation itself proves my point. It has been incompetent from the get-go since, well, we don’t know when because the date it started, or resumed, or stopped, or whatever, still is...

Hawaii's commercial real estate market rang up about $2.96 billion in investment sales in 2025, but this was no broad-based buying spree. A small pack of giant fee-simple land deals, many tied to marquee resort parcels in Waikīkī and other vacation corridors, pushed the total skyward and concentrated the action at...