“How to keep pets safe during New Year’s Eve fireworks.”
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Updated: 10 hours ago
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By Annalisa Burgos
If you have pets and live in an area where fireworks will be set off for the New Year, the Hawaiian Humane Society suggests you take steps to help keep them safe.
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Updated: 10 hours ago
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By Elyssa Arquero
The centuries-old Japanese tradition is believed to bring good fortune in the coming year.
SPORTS
Updated: 10 hours ago
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By Kyle Chinen
“Everybody loved Sione.”
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Updated: 11 hours ago
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By Caelan Hughes
A New Year’s party for kids who can’t stay up until midnight!
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Updated: 14 hours ago
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By Caelan Hughes
Here is the current list of locations for large public aerial displays on New Year’s Eve.
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Updated: 15 hours ago
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By HNN Staff
BYU has identified the victim as 22-year-old Sione Veikoso of Kailua.
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Updated: 15 hours ago
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By Caelan Hughes
Authorities said emergency crews on Oahu rescued three sets of hikers on Friday.
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Updated: 16 hours ago
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By Rick Daysog
It may be the largest turnover in more than two decades.
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Updated: 17 hours ago
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By HNN Staff
A search is underway for a male pedestrian who was struck by a vehicle Friday evening in Puna, Hawaii Island police said.
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Updated: 17 hours ago
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By Caelan Hughes
A fire broke out at a building in Downtown Honolulu early Saturday, the Honolulu Fire Department said.
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NEWS
Updated: Dec. 30, 2022 at 8:16 PM HST
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By Chelsea Davis
A crisis intervention training specialist says both the victim and the officer deserve ‘compassion.’
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Updated: Dec. 30, 2022 at 8:11 PM HST
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By HNN Staff
All West Maui properties, including hotels and condos, are urged to stop washing vehicles and cease irrigation.
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Updated: Dec. 30, 2022 at 6:56 PM HST
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By Daryl Huff
Friends say Hawaii’s own Tua Tagovailoa faces a lifetime decision about his future in football following his second diagnosed concussion this season.
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Updated: Dec. 30, 2022 at 6:50 PM HST
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By HNN Staff
There is no estimate on how long it will take to restore service.
NEWS
Updated: Dec. 30, 2022 at 6:30 PM HST
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By Jolanie Martinez
Families who’ve lost a loved one to a drunk driver, have a message for New Year revelers: Think of them and their pain before getting behind the wheel this weekend.
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Updated: Dec. 30, 2022 at 6:22 PM HST
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By Annalisa Burgos
Gov. Josh Green announced his pick to head a new state agency tasked with helping people deal with childhood trauma and other mental health issues.
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Updated: Dec. 30, 2022 at 4:22 PM HST
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By HNN Staff
Warning signs are up after about 3,500 gallons of untreated wastewater spilled into Pearl Harbor on Friday.
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Updated: Dec. 30, 2022 at 3:07 PM HST
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By HNN Staff
A witness who lives next door says the resident of the house was in the shower when the fire started and that the house was in flames within “30 seconds.”
MENTAL ILLNESS
Updated: Dec. 30, 2022 at 2:47 PM HST
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By Megan Ramones
“There’s good anxiety and there’s bad anxiety.”
NEWS
Updated: Dec. 30, 2022 at 2:06 PM HST
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By Jonathan Jared Saupe
Watch “This is Now” live from the HNN Digital Center weekdays on KHNL or across Hawaii News Now’s platforms online and on mobile.
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Updated: Dec. 30, 2022 at 11:56 AM HST
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By HNN Staff
The theme for the 2023 Lei Day Celebration is Lei Kuahiwi – Mountain Lei.
NEWS
Updated: Dec. 30, 2022 at 10:48 AM HST
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By Caelan Hughes
Officials said firefighters determined the structure to be an abandoned home due to the exterior windows that were boarded up.
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Updated: Dec. 30, 2022 at 10:37 AM HST
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By Guy Hagi
First Alert Forecast: Light winds to linger into the New Year
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Updated: Dec. 30, 2022 at 10:32 AM HST
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By HNN Staff
Authorities said the officer involved in the shooting has been placed on administrative leave as standard procedure.
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Updated: Dec. 30, 2022 at 5:07 AM HST
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By HNN Staff
Get the links you hear mentioned on Sunrise.
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Updated: Dec. 30, 2022 at 4:33 AM HST
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By HNN Staff
Paramedics said he apparently sustained a gun shot wound to his lower body.
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Updated: Dec. 30, 2022 at 4:27 AM HST
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By Guy Hagi
A surface high pressure ridge positioned just north of the Hawaiian Islands will be weakened by two passing cold fronts.
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Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 10:18 PM HST
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By Eddie Dowd
Windward Oahu residents are calling on the city to repair and reopen a Kaaawa recreational center.
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Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 8:40 PM HST
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By HNN Staff
You can help make sure street signs with Hawaiian names along the Leeward coast have proper diacritical markings.
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Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 7:32 PM HST
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By Chelsea Davis
Neighbor island police dispatchers are getting inundated with phone calls regarding illegal fireworks.
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Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 7:12 PM HST
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By Annalisa Burgos
Starting Jan. 5, all travelers from China must show a negative COVID-19 test result before boarding a flight to the U.S.
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Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 7:00 PM HST
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By Dillon Ancheta
From a royal Hawaiian heiress, to a world-renown kumu hula, Hawaii bid a fond aloha to a number of notable people in 2022.
NEWS
Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 6:54 PM HST
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By Daryl Huff
Gov. Josh Green’s appointee to manage state lands and the environment could already be in trouble as the environmental community organizes opposition.
NEWS
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Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 6:48 PM HST
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By Mahealani Richardson
The department said there is no public access to this contaminated area.
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Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 6:36 PM HST
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By Mark Carpenter
Logan said the department has received about 600-applications for concealed carry permits.
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Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 6:22 PM HST
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By Allyson Blair
The department says there will be a zero tolerance policy, adding it’s the most dangerous place you can take your family.
NEWS
Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 6:14 PM HST
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By Mahealani Richardson
It’ll be years before Hawaii’s public school students recover academically and behaviorally from the impacts of the COVID pandemic, Board of Education Superintendent Keith Hayashi said.
NEWS
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Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 4:39 PM HST
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By HNN Staff
“All of a sudden I heard loud voices and ice cubes being thrown all over the place,” a witness said.
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Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 4:28 PM HST
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By HNN Staff
The restriction is in effect in the Lanikai area from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. beginning Saturday.
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Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 4:08 PM HST
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By HNN Staff
Officials said 53-year-old John Beitler was reported missing on Dec. 9.
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Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 3:27 PM HST
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By Casey Lund
When you take a look out your window on New Year’s Eve, the amount of illegal fireworks you see is stunning.
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Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 2:24 PM HST
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By Caelan Hughes
He is filling in until Jan. 17, when Benjamin Moszkowicz will be sworn in as the new police chief.
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Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 12:57 PM HST
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By Jonathan Jared Saupe
Watch “This is Now” live from the HNN Digital Center weekdays on KHNL or across Hawaii News Now’s platforms online and on mobile.
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Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 9:56 AM HST
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By HNN Staff
Honolulu police said they are responding to a suspicious circumstance.
WEATHER
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Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 9:54 AM HST
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By Guy Hagi
First Alert Forecast: Mostly dry conditions expected through the weekend
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Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 6:29 AM HST
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By HNN Staff
“The rocks that she was wedged between, the firefighter actually came down and said it’s easily over 1,000 pounds.”
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Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 5:45 AM HST
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By HNN Staff
Officials said the incident happened around 5 a.m. when the 51-year-old woman was walking along Vineyard Boulevard.
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Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 5:02 AM HST
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By Caitlin Lilly
A woman visiting from Hawaii had quite a profitable trip to the “Ninth Island” after hitting a jackpot on the Las Vegas Strip.
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Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 4:37 AM HST
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By Guy Hagi
A surface high pressure ridge positioned just north of the Hawaiian Islands will be weakened by two passing cold fronts over the next seven days.
NEWS
Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 4:33 AM HST
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By Daryl Huff
“We are not just going to lie down and let the beach disappear.”
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