NEW YORK >> New York City Police Commissioner Edward Caban resigned today, a week after FBI agents seized his phone as part of multiple federal corruption investigations that have entangled senior ...

A 28-year-old man was hospitalized in serious condition after being shot and assaulted in the University area on Wednesday night.

WASHINGTON >> Two astronauts— a billionaire and an engineer— completed the world’s first private spacewalk in orbit today outside a SpaceX capsule, wearing a new line of spacesuits in a risky feat ...

LIMA >> Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, who steered economic growth during the 1990s but was later jailed for human rights abuses stemming from a bloody war against Maoist rebels, died on ...

Some Republican officials, donors and advisers said Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, had botched his debate with Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, although Trump himself ...

The Farrington Governors are getting one giant orange-and-black challenge on Saturday in their first top-tier regular-seaso ...

TOKYO >> A record 177 career-track national civil-­service employees with less than 10 years of service left their jobs in fiscal 2022, the National Personnel Authority announced.

Because any mass shooting is incomprehensible, reprehensible and unbearably tragic, there is a human reflex to cast blame and to seek answers. So it is after the Aug. 31 chaos in Waianae, which left ...

Georgette Deemer — whose 16 years as Hawaii film commissioner launched the islands’ international film and television industry­ — died Sept. 1 in Honolulu after a long battle with cancer. She was 71.

KUMAGAYA, Japan >> Grappling with a rice shortage after extreme weather ravaged last year’s crop, Japan is hoping new heat-resistant varieties of its staple food can help stave off future supply ...

The Queen’s Health Systems has promoted Laura Kau‘ionalani Nishizaki to vice president of Native Hawaiian Health; Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice; and Caregiver Wellness, and of ...

Boise State, Fresno State, San Diego State and Colorado State will join Oregon State and Washington State in 2026, according to news reports.