Madeleine Valera

In response to the deadly New Year's Eve explosion, the state Department of Law Enforcement said it collected more than 500 pounds of illegal fireworks.

The director of the state’s Department of Law Enforcement, Jordan Lowe, is resigning. Lowe, a former Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent, was appointed to head the fledgling agency in March of 2023. Gov. Josh Green announced Wednesday that Lowe would be replaced by Honolulu police Maj. Mike Lambert, pending his confirmation by […]

Albert Ian and Shawn Schweitzer say police framed them for the 1991 rape and murder of a tourist on the Big Island.

The organized crime leader's death in federal detention upended his criminal case, but prosecutors are still trying to claim his assets through a civil proceeding.

This story has been updated to include the victim’s name. A 29-year-old man is the fifth person to die from the fireworks explosion in a Honolulu neighborhood on New Year’s Eve. The man, identified by Maricopa County officials as 29-year-old Kevin Vallesteros, died Tuesday morning at an Arizona hospital. He had been airlifted to the […]

Officers beat and arrested Tevitatonga Cadiente on Jan. 1, 2024, after mistaking him for a different Tongan man — an armed suspect they were pursuing.

All four arrested Friday were parents who set off fireworks at the party with their children, according to police.

The law requires people to prove they’re innocent to get paid. Even after their convictions have been set aside, no one has been able to meet that standard. 

Eight people are still being treated in burn units in Arizona and Honolulu, and the police investigation is ongoing.

Police are seeing an uptick in ghost guns but Hawaiʻi counties differ in how they interpret and use a state law meant to deter people from buying or manufacturing untraceable weapons.