A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky region near Russia on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, prompting tsunami advisories for parts of Alaska. Initially, there was a tsunami advisory issued for Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, but it was canceled, according to the USGS. A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky region near Russia on Thursday, the U.S….
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Happy weekend, Hawaii! This is part of Spectrum News Hawaii’s weekly series, where we recap the top stories you may have missed throughout the week. Note: The stories below have been truncated, so please click on the links to read them in their entirety. This week’s big stories 1. Case, Tokuda vote against defense authorization bill…
A police dog died in Hawaii last week after being left unattended inside a hot car, according to the police department where the dog had served since 2021. In a news release announcing the K-9’s death, the interim police chief at the Hawaii Police Department called the incident “a preventable tragedy.” The dog was 6 and…
HONOLULU (AP) — Hurricane Kiko was tracking to the north of the Hawaiian islands, diminishing the threat of strong winds and widespread rain, the National Weather Service said Saturday. Kiko was about 1,000 miles (1,609 kilometers) southeast of Hilo on the Big Island Saturday morning and was forecast to approach the state early to middle…
NOAA updates hurricane forecast NOAA updates hurricane forecast for 2025 Atlantic season 02:02 Hurricane Kiko, a Category 3 storm, is swirling in the Pacific Ocean and heading west in a direction toward Hawaii. Forecasters warned that swells from the storm could reach the Hawaiian Islands by the end of the weekend and cause life-threatening surf…
Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupted again this week, spewing lava 500 feet into the air from the crater at its summit, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The eruption ended around 8 p.m. local time on Tuesday night, after producing approximately 337 million cubic feet of molten rock over a 13-hour period. This marked the 32nd episode in an ongoing…
A grand jury has indicted two civilian workers on charges they caused the Navy to provide the Hawaii Department of Health with false information about jet fuel that spilled from a Pearl Harbor storage facility before it later seeped into drinking water and sickened 6,000 people over Thanksgiving in 2021. The indictments are the first…
Courtesy of: Alikaleo Park HONOLULU (Island News) — For Alex and Sarah Kawakami, raising children and raising a business have gone hand in hand. Out of the day-to-day rhythm of parenthood—bedtime routines, family play, and moments of inspiration—came the idea for Alikaleo Park, a children’s clothing brand rooted in creativity, culture, and family legacy. The…
Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano resumed erupting Friday by shooting an arc of lava 100 feet into the air and across a section of its summit crater floor. It was Kilauea’s 31st display of molten rock since December, an appropriately high frequency for one of the world’s most active volcanoes. The north vent at the summit crater…