Dan Nakaso

Former Gov. George Ryoichi Ariyoshi — Hawaii’s longest-­serving governor and America’s first governor of Japanese ancestry — was remembered Friday night at the state Capitol as a visionary leader who helped steer Hawaii from a plantation-­based U.S. Territory into a modern era of diversified agriculture, tourism and aerospace technology and through the tumultuous 1970s cultural Hawaiian renaissance.

Hurricane Lala tore across Hawaii island farms and ranches, washing away coffee crops on the eve of harvest season and knocking out drinking water sources for thousands of head of cattle and horses, leaving a preliminary damage estimate of $761,150.

University of Hawaii President Wendy Hensel on Wednesday withdrew a new “interim free expression policy” for all 10 UH campuses as classes began this week.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday approved a disaster declaration for Hawaii, making federal assistance available to clean up and rebuild after the devastation from Hurricane Lala.

Job Corps programs in Waimanalo and Makawao are celebrating an agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor that reverses the department’s 2025 decision to shut down 99 Job Corps centers around the country.

A direct hit on Oahu by a tropical storm or hurricane would unleash destruction across Hawaii’s economic center unlike any other event documented in state history.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has approved an initial $6 million in emergency “quick release” funds to help Hawaii repair infrastructure damaged by Hurricane Lala.

Veteran Honolulu Advertiser reporter and columnist Will Hoover, who turned to journalism after a career as a Nashville singer and songwriter running with the likes of Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash and Glen Campbell, died Aug. 3 at his home in Kapolei. He was 80.

Recounts of two West Oahu Republican primary election races have validated the razor-thin margins in both contests.

For Hawaii residents who believe their vote does not matter, consider what happened in two legislative races after the polls closed Saturday night: