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Registration opens for 2025 Hawaiian Convention
Hawaii News Now
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August 27, 2025
TULALIP, Washington (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Native Hawaiian Convention is just over a month away and registration for the event is now open. The Hawaiian Council is hosting the 2025 event at the Tulalip Resort Casino in Tulalip, Washington from...
Browns name Hawaii’s Dillon Gabriel backup QB behind Flacco
Honolulu Star-Advertiser - Hawaii
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August 27, 2025
Cleveland Browns coach Kevin Stefanski has officially named rookie Dillon Gabriel as the team’s backup quarterback. He will be the No. 2 behind 40-year-old veteran Joe Flacco. The Browns traded quarterback Kenny Pickett to the Las Vegas Raiders on...
Honolulu firefighters push for COVID hazard pay
Hawaii News Now
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August 27, 2025
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Back when our beaches were closed and families were on lockdown, Honolulu firefighters were on the front lines of the pandemic. Casen Cluney was a recruit getting real-world training. “We’re being up close and personal...
Hawaii County Weather Forecast for August 27, 2025
Big Island Now - Hawaii
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August 27, 2025
Hilo Tonight: Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Haze. Lows 65 to 71 near the shore to 53 to 60 at 4000 feet. Northwest winds up to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent. Wednesday: Partly sunny with scattered showers. Haze. Highs 80 to 87 near the...
Can A New Tax Save Downtown Honolulu’s Small Businesses?
Honolulu Civil Beat - Hawaii
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August 27, 2025
The proposed fee could improve safety and cleanliness in the area, but critics say it won’t fix the underlying challenge facing downtown. The Honolulu City Council is considering imposing a new fee for downtown properties to help revitalize what...
Kokua Line: Has Matson resumed shipping EVs to Hawaii?
Honolulu Star-Advertiser - Hawaii
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August 27, 2025
Question: Has Matson resumed shipping EVs to Hawaii? If the answer is no, do they expect to resume shipping them at some point? If yes, do you know when that will be? My son needs to bring his car home from college. Answer: No, Matson, Hawaii’s...
Inside Hawaii's rent-free, incredibly strict 'Forbidden Island'
Business Insider
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Walking through the dusty town of Waimea on the west side of the Hawaiian Island of Kauai, you might notice an older man in a green hard hat, eating a block of American cheese at a table outside of a Subway. His boots are caked in red clay from...
Hawaiian Falls water parks sold to Ripley's Believe It or Not! parent company
FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth - Texas
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Believe it or not, Hawaiian Falls water parks are now under new ownership. Three Hawaiian Falls water parks are now officially owned by Ripley Entertainment Inc. What we know: Hawaiian Falls Mansfield, Hawaiian Falls Roanoke and Hawaiian Falls...
Leeward CC’s local food entrepreneurs shine at Made in Hawaiʻi Festival
University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
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August 26, 2025
Reading time: 2 minutesJaneé Gutierrez (left), owner of Madres Churros and ʻĀina to Mākeke cohort 5 participant, was part of the Hawaii Made Pavilion presented by DBEDT in partnership with Leeward CC The 2025 Made in Hawaiʻi Festival brought...
Attorneys general urge tech companies’ action against nonconsensual deepfake pornography
Golden State Today - California
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August 26, 2025
California Attorney General Rob Bonta, along with 47 other attorneys general, has sent letters to search and payment platform operators regarding their indirect roles in the creation and distribution of nonconsensual deepfake pornography....
Hawaii health officials say Lahaina is safe after 2023 fire, but tests show heavy metal exposure
Associated Press
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August 26, 2025
Maria Linz has worried about living in Lahaina since her family first returned to their smoke-damaged home in the Leialii area three days after the August 2023 disaster. For months after the fire, dust and ash coated nearly every surface of her...
Hawaii couple say they found red flags with boat motor company during online purchase
KTVZ - Oregon
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August 26, 2025
Click here for updates on this story CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (KRIS) — A Hawaii couple thought they found the perfect boat motor online from a company listing a Corpus Christi address, but warning signs quickly emerged during their purchase attempt....
Attorney general coalition demanding companies end predatory AI interactions with children
DGR News
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A group of 44 Attorneys General are demanding that some major artificial intelligence companies stop making harmful content on their platforms accessible to children. The letter, sent to Anthropic, Apple, Chai AI, Google, Luka Inc., Meta,...
Believe It! 3 Texas Hawaiian Falls water parks under new ownership
WFAA 8 - Texas
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August 26, 2025
The acquisition marks a Texas expansion for the entertainment company. DALLAS — Believe it! Ripley's Believe It or Not! World Entertainment has acquired three Texas Hawaiian Falls water parks, including two in North Texas. The company, which also...
Electric companies are fighting across the West to limit their blame for wildfires
KJZZ - Arizona
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August 26, 2025
Sam Drevo and his mother love art. Sam enjoys photography and traveled the world collecting various pieces for their home. His mother, Perry, is a weaver, and made her own textiles on wooden looms. They called their home the “art house.” But that...
Business The Honolulu Star-Advertiser Engineering company Oceanit turns 40
Yahoo News
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Technology and engineering firm Oceanit turned 40 this year as the company touts itself as a global innovator working from Hawaii. The company had modest beginnings as a small coastal engineering firm. Founder and CEO Patrick Sullivan, an engineer...
Hawaii football expert previews the Arizona game, makes a score prediction
AZ Desert Swarm - Arizona
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August 26, 2025
The Hawaii Rainbow Warriors are not a common opponent for Arizona, the teams only meeting six times. Yet when they do play it often leads to memorable games, such as in 1998 when the Wildcats opened the season in Honolulu and Chris McAlister...
Audit Finds Hawaii ED Spent Millions on AC Units Without Viable Plan
Government Technology
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August 26, 2025
(TNS) — As a new school year begins, the Hawaii State Department of Education has no active program to expand air conditioning in overheated classrooms. The agency recently shut down its last cooling initiative, according to a state audit released...
Coalition urges tech companies to stop the spread of deepfake pornography
Vermont Business Magazine
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August 26, 2025
Letter cites report that 98% of fake online videos are deepfake non-consensual intimate imagery Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark today led a bipartisan coalition of 47 state attorneys general in calling on major...
Hawaii County Weather Forecast for August 26, 2025
Big Island Now - Hawaii
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August 26, 2025
Hilo Tonight: Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Haze. Lows 65 to 72 near the shore to 53 to 60 at 4000 feet. Northwest winds up to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent. Tuesday: Partly sunny with scattered showers. Haze. Highs 79 to 87 near the...