HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Friday, Aug. 15, 2025, was Statehood Day in Hawaii. The state holiday, which falls on the third Friday in August, remembers Aug. 21, 1959, when President Dwight Eisenhower ...

COURTESY PHOTO Kurt Fevella COURTESY PHOTO Kurt Fevella The list of annual state holidays in Hawaii could grow by one under legislation that easily passed a milestone last week. State senators voted ...

Preface : "statehood sucks" -- Introduction : Colliding futures of Hawaiʻi statehood -- A future wish : Hawaiʻi at the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition -- The courage to speak : disrupting ...

Young athletes and their families from Ehime prefecture in Japan are in Honolulu for this year’s Ehime-Hawaii Goodwill Youth Baseball Exchange. The lawsuit accuses the housekeeper’s male co-worker of ...

Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. Testimony on SB 614 has been near-unanimously supportive, ...