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Hawaain Sharks May Soon Be a Lot Happier

Hawaiian Sharks May
Soon Be a Lot Happier

Feb 9, 2019 3:00 PM CST

Hawaiian Sharks May Soon Be a Lot Happier

If state officials manage to pass a shark-protection bill

(Newser) - Hawaiian lawmakers have introduced a new bill to protect any and all sharks from being killed in state waters—which, if it passes, will be the first law of its kind in America, the Guardian reports. Seems the bill was inspired by hundreds of support-letters and phone calls from around...

10 Worst
US Cities to
Call Home

Feb 5, 2019 10:39 AM CST

10 Worst US Cities to Call Home

California has 3 cities in the top 10, 2 for Hawaii

(Newser) - "While there is no such thing as the perfect city, the United States is full of places with few, if any, strengths." That's according to 24/7 Wall St. , at which a few California cities can now direct their ire. The website identified the 50 worst American cities...

Bill Wouldn't Let Anyone Under 100 Buy 'Deadliest Artifact'

Hawaii Bill Would Raise Legal
Smoking Age by ... Well, a Lot

Feb 5, 2019 7:40 AM CST

Hawaii Bill Would Raise Legal Smoking Age by ... Well, a Lot

Minimum legal smoking age in Hawaii would rise incrementally through 2024

(Newser) - Hawaii wants to free a "heavily addicted" group that's been "enslaved by a ridiculously bad industry." That's per state Rep. Richard Creagan, an ER doctor and the sponsor of a bill that goes after "the deadliest artifact in human history"—the cigarette. How...

Flight to Maui Turns Back Not Once, Not Twice, but 3 Times

Passengers Experience
Most Disappointing
Flight Ever to Hawaii

Feb 2, 2019 8:00 AM CST

Passengers Experience Most Disappointing Flight Ever to Hawaii

Flight 33 was forced to return to LAX 3 times before the flight was just canceled

(Newser) - You know that feeling when you start your vacation and you just really, really want to get to your destination? Try to imagine, then, how passengers on Hawaiian Airlines Flight 33 felt Friday, when their plane from Los Angeles International Airport, bound for Maui, took off a total of three...

Lawmaker Says He's an
'Asian Trapped in a White Body'

Jan 17, 2019 12:21 AM CST

Lawmaker Says He's an 'Asian Trapped in a White Body'

Hawaii's Ed Case apologizes for remark

(Newser) - The new congressman for America's only majority-Asian congressional district has apologized for saying he is "an Asian trapped in a white man's body." National Journal fellow Nicholas Wu tweeted Wednesday that Ed Case, a Democrat elected in November to represent Hawaii's 1st congressional district, made...

'Lesser Known' Candidate Is Running for President

War Veteran Throws
Hat in the Ring for 2020

Jan 12, 2019 11:45 AM CST

War Veteran Throws Hat in the Ring for 2020

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard says it's about 'war and peace'

(Newser) - Think Democrats are running the same old faces in 2020? Try Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, who revealed her candidacy Friday: "I have decided to run and will be making a formal announcement within the next week," said the 37-year-old Army National Guard veteran on CNN's The ...

Death of George
the Snail Matters

Jan 8, 2019 12:51 PM CST

Death of George the Snail Matters

He was the last of his kind in Hawaii. Species Achatinella apexfulva is no more

(Newser) - A 14-year-old Hawaiian land snail born in an effort to save its species has died as the last of its kind. The Achatinella apexfulva named George died in a state lab on New Year's Day, likely of old age, NPR reports. The first of some 750 species of Hawaiian...

A Wiggly New Problem
for Endangered Seals

Dec 7, 2018 1:36 PM CST

A Wiggly New Problem for Endangered Seals

Juvenile Hawaiian monk seals spotted with eels in their noses

(Newser) - Endangered Hawaiian monk seals have enough to contend with —sharks, habitat loss, limited prey, nets —without eels wiggling in their noses. Yet NOAA researchers are noting just how much trouble an eel in the nose can cause after sharing a photo of an afflicted seal looking rather uncomfortable...

Experts See a 'Real Challenge'
as Hawaii's Kilauea Pauses

Dec 5, 2018 12:34 PM CST

Experts See a 'Real Challenge' as Hawaii's Kilauea Pauses

3-month break in surface lava leaves plenty of uncertainty

(Newser) - Hawaii's Kilauea, given the highest overall threat score of any volcano in the country, appears to be calming down. The volcano that's been erupting almost continuously for 35 years, forcing thousands from their homes this spring and summer, has produced no surface lava on the Big Island, including...

Hawaiian Princess, 92,
Alters Trust to Give Wife $40M

Nov 29, 2018 6:46 AM CST

Hawaiian Princess, 92, Alters Trust to Give Wife $40M

She also wants to give her the key to King Kalakaua's crypt

(Newser) - A 92-year-old Native Hawaiian princess has changed her trust to ensure her wife receives $40 million and all her personal property, including her Chihuahua "Girlie Girl," according to court records. Abigail Kawananakoa inherited her wealth as the great-granddaughter of James Campbell, an Irish businessman who made his fortune...

Lawsuit: Missile False Alarm
Caused Heart Attack

Nov 28, 2018 6:59 PM CST

Lawsuit: Missile False Alarm Caused Heart Attack

Two plaintiffs are seeking unspecified damages

(Newser) - A Hawaii man claims that a false alert about incoming ballistic missiles issued in that state earlier this year caused him to have a heart attack. On Jan. 13, Hawaii’s Emergency Management Agency fired off an alert to cellphones warning, “Ballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii. Seek immediate...

Grilled Rat Wasn't on the Menu.
2 Employees Made It Anyway

Nov 23, 2018 7:46 AM CST

Grilled Rat Wasn't on the Menu. 2 Employees Made It Anyway

Teddy's Bigger Burgers in Hawaii considering legal action

(Newser) - A Hawaiian burger chain is scrubbing one of its locations top to bottom after two employees apparently decided to cook up a rat. A short clip posted days ago on Snapchat shows two staffers joking around as a rat is seen on the grill of Teddy's Bigger Burgers' Mapunapuna...

Hawaii Supreme Court Says
Yes to Controversial Telescope

Oct 31, 2018 1:18 PM CDT

Hawaii Supreme Court Says Yes to Controversial Telescope

Thirty Meter Telescope project can move forward, high court rules

(Newser) - After years of delay, including lengthy court battles and passionate protests from those willing to be arrested for blocking construction crews, builders of a giant telescope plan to move forward with constructing the $1.4 billion instrument on a Hawaii mountain that is considered sacred. The state Supreme Court's...

Sign of 'What the Future Could
Look Like' in Remote Hawaii

Sign of 'What the Future Could Look Like' in Remote Hawaii

East Island disappears beneath Pacific waves

(Newser) - Hawaii might've grown a peninsula this year, but it's now lost a whole 11-acre island, and perhaps endangered seals and turtles along with it. East Island, the second-largest islet in the French Frigate Shoals atoll, a few hundred miles northwest of the Hawaiian island chain, has disappeared since...

Americans May Not Want
to Live Near the 'Big 18'

Oct 26, 2018 7:20 AM CDT

Americans May Not Want to Live Near the 'Big 18'

USGS puts these US volcanoes in the 'very high threat' category

(Newser) - Government scientists have classified 18 US volcanoes as "very high threat" because of what's been happening inside them and how close they are to people. The US Geological Survey has updated its volcano threat assessments for the first time since 2005, per the AP , and the danger list...

Woman Acquitted in
Twin's Death Opens Up

Oct 24, 2018 12:11 PM CDT

Woman Acquitted in Twin's Death Opens Up

Alexandria Duval's chat with Dr. Phil McGraw airs Thursday

(Newser) - The woman acquitted of murder after driving off a Hawaii cliff in a 2016 crash that killed her identical twin says she only learned her sister was dead "way after." In her first public comments on the crash and subsequent murder trial, Alexandria Duval tells Dr. Phil McGraw...

4 Days After
Wedding, She
Was Paralyzed
on Honeymoon

Sep 27, 2018 10:50 AM CDT

4 Days After Wedding, She Was Paralyzed on Honeymoon

New bride was slammed into the ground by a big wave

(Newser) - A Texas woman's destination wedding and dream honeymoon turned into a nightmare when a wave threw Nikki Lewis to the ground while she was boogie boarding with her new husband, just four days after they wed on the beach in Maui. The Sept. 12 accident broke the 34-year-old's...

5 Most, Least
Diverse States

Sep 18, 2018 10:20 AM CDT

5 Most, Least Diverse States

WalletHub considers race, religion, politics, and more

(Newser) - The same three states leading the country in racial diversity also lead the pack when it comes to socioeconomic, cultural, economic, household, religious, and political diversity, according to WalletHub . The site considered a host of metrics from race and language to educational attainment for its ranking of all 50 US...

Judge Has Bad News
for Hawaiian Princess

Sep 16, 2018 9:35 AM CDT

Judge Has Bad News for Hawaiian Princess

Abigail Kawananakoa is deemed mentally incapable of managing her trust

(Newser) - A judge ruled this week that Hawaiian "princess" Abigail Kawananakoa isn't mentally capable of handling her $215 million fortune—the latest development in a saga of aging royalty and alleged abuse, the Guardian reports. Kawananakoa, 92, who descends from the royal family that once ruled the Hawaiian kingdom,...

This Is the Happiest
State in the Union

Sep 10, 2018 8:41 AM CDT

This Is the Happiest State in the Union

Congratulations, Hawaii

(Newser) - It may be tough to measure happiness, but WalletHub took a crack at it by crunching data on 31 factors from depression to income in each state of the union. Your happiness winner is perhaps not a shocker: Hawaii. On the flip side, West Virginia fared worst. One big factor...