Bypassing Congress, President Donald Trump on Saturday signed executive orders deferring payroll taxes for some Americans and extending unemployment benefits after negotiations on a new coronavirus rescue package collapsed.
A breakdown in the talks would put at risk more than $100 billion to help reopen schools, a fresh round of $1,200 direct payments to most people and hundreds of billions of dollars for state and local governments to help them avoid furloughing workers and cutting services as tax revenues shrivel.
Fed up with a perceived lack of information on the state’s use of contact tracers, the Hawaii Senate Committee on the coronavirus pandemic walked right up to the Department of Health Friday morning to seek answers
"I think for our kids we’re going to have a lot of joy come from these bikes. The kids are going to be able to ride around the neighborhood and exercise."
Another sentencing date could finally be set for Honolulu’s former police chief, Louis Kealoha, his wife Katherine, a former deputy prosecutor, and two police officers who were found guilty on June 27, 2019 of obstruction and conspiracy.
The military has recovered the bodies of nine people killed when a Marine landing craft sank in hundreds of feet of water off the Southern California coast.
The Kaimuki high school football team is giving back to the community that supports them on Friday nights — even though the Friday night lights are turned off for now.
Football players in the Mountain West Conference, including multiple from the Rainbow Warriors team, took to social media to back the MW United movement — which ensures the safety of Mountain West Student athletes during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Hawaii High School Athletic Association has postponed most fall sports, including high school football, until at least January, the organization said Wednesday.
Several organizations plan to take more legal action against landlords who violate Hawaii’s moratorium on evictions over unpaid housing bills during the coronavirus pandemic.
Federal prosecutors say a former Los Angeles Angels employee has been charged with conspiracy to distribute fentanyl in connection with last year's overdose death of Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs.
