Honolulu HI

"It just came, like, within two seconds. That's what it seemed like, just like, five minutes of intense rain, all of a sudden, this entire area, let's see behind here was a raging river."

Traffic ground to a halt Friday morning on Oahu as a developing landslide shut down both Kalanianaole Highway and Pali Highway in both directions between Kapaa Quarry Road and Castle Junction. State crews arrived to assess the slope above the roadway, and drivers heading between Honolulu and the windward side were...

The Honolulu Festival Foundation announced Baldwin High School as the winner of the Maui Mikoshi design contest at the 30th Annual Honolulu Festival. The winning mikoshi design was unveiled on Saturday, March 14, at the Hawai‘i Convention Center. A mikoshi is an elaborate portable shrine traditionally paraded through...

Musicians Ambrose Splescia and Eddy Bishai will perform two shows Saturday at Kapono's at the Lounge in the Hawaii Kai Shopping Center.

The City and County of Honolulu announced that all parties have signed the purchase and sale agreement for the Shark’s Cove property, effective March 18, 2026. The site will serve as a base of operations for first responders on the North Shore.

Honolulu is paying a premium to cut response times along one of Oʻahu’s riskiest stretches of coastline, snapping up roughly 2.72 acres across Kamehameha Highway from Shark's Cove on the North Shore for a long-planned first-responder hub. City leaders say the deal will let them colocate lifeguards and an ambulance...

Community activists in ʻAiea are in a race with time to preserve a historic site that is one of the last surviving slivers of what was once a panoramic pastoral landscape. The Pearl Harbor area, formerly known as Pu‘uloa, is now a densely developed concrete jungle, but it was once the food basket for Oʻahu, a lush...

Blood Bank of Hawaii celebrated the grand opening of their new Kapolei headquarters building on Thursday.

EDITORS’ NOTE: This is an evolving story and will be updated frequently. The low-lying areas of Haleʻiwa, Waialua and Mokulēʻia on the North Shore of Oʻahu were overwhelmed by catastrophic flooding early on Friday morning, prompting county alerts to residents to evacuate or move to higher ground.

As the second Kona storm makes its way through the islands, some parts of Hawaiʻi are seeing heavy flooding while others are seeing sporadic showers.