Whether you're a frequent or potential visitor, former Hawaii resident or still live in Hawaii, you'll want to keep up with Hawaii news.
Fortunately Hawaii has a number of excellent sources for news on what's going on in the islands. Each island has at least one major newspaper and often several smaller, local publications. All of these have websites that feature varying amounts of the content in their print editions. Some offer, for a fee, full electronic versions of their entire print editions.
In addition there are several excellent independent sources for Hawaii news that are available exclusively online. Finally, all of the major TV stations in Hawaii offer news either in print, archived videos or live streams of their broadcasts especially when big news events take place.
Here are some of our favorite sources for Hawaii news.
1. Honolulu Star-Advertiser
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser published its first edition June 7, 2010, combining the best of the 128-year-old Honolulu Star-Bulletin and the 154-year-old Honolulu Advertiser. It is the largest and most popular newspaper in Hawaii, concentrating primarily on news about the City and County of Oahu. It's website is an excellent source for daily news about what's going on in the islands.
2. The Maui News
The Maui News is the major daily newspaper for the island of Maui, and is a must read for all who wish to keep up with news of what's happening on Maui. It is readily available in print on Maui as well as with its online edition. The newspaper contains many features and stories not found on the website. Conversely, the site has resources not available in print.
3. The Garden Island News
As is evident from the name, The Garden Island News is the primary daily newspaper for the islands of Kauai and Ni'ihau. It has been continually published by Kauai Publishing Company since 1902. The print edition is widely available on-island and the online edition contains many of the stories covered each day in the print edition. The company publishes an excellent quarterly supplement for visitors entitled Essential Kauai.
4. Hawaii Tribune Herald
The Hawaii Tribune Herald is the primary daily newspaper serving Hilo and the surrounding communities on the east side of the Big Island of Hawaii. Their online edition includes local news stories, but lacks many of the features available in either their print edition or e-Edition (which contains the entire contents of the print edition and is available by subscription.)
5. West Hawaii Today
The sister publication of the Hawaii Tribune Herald, West Hawaii Today is a daily newspaper circulated on the west side of Hawaii's Big Island from North Kohala to Ka'u. The newspaper is the main source of local news to the West Hawaii community, and it also provides national and international coverage. It's online version contains man, but not all, of the stories in the print edition.
6. Hawaii 24/7
Hawaii 24/7 is an independent news provider covering the Big Island of Hawaii, utilizing the Internet to deliver content as quickly as possible.
Their mission is to improve the quality of life, encourage civic participation and promote a healthy democracy through an informed citizenry and healthy communities through social discourse. To be fair, frank and honest with people on all subjects and under whatever pressure.
Hawaii 24/7 is an excellent resource for timely and unbiased news about what's going happening on the Big Island of Hawaii.
7. Hawaii Reporter
Hawaii Reporter Inc. is an award-winning, independent, online news journal launched in February 2002 to cover key business, government, political and educational stories in Hawaii.
Local journalists Malia Zimmerman and Jay McWilliams co-founded the publication. Though Hawaii Reporter publishes all points of view, the publication features many local and national columnists and contributors, the vast majority who are free market oriented, and who offer opinions and news not found elsewhere in Hawaii.
8. Hawaii Star
Hawaii Star is the latest incarnation of the "Hawaii NewsList," an independent, volunteer-run online news source that was originally established in 1994 at the University of Hawaii as a community service for former Hawaii residents living out-of-state and abroad.
HawaiiStar.com hopes to grow to include original spot news and in-depth reporting, features (including reviews, profiles, and columns), and opinion pieces - ultimately offering an independent, alternative venue for writers, photographers, and journalists (and student journalists).
9. Pacific Business News
The Pacific Business News is one of 40 local business newspapers owned by their parent company, American City Business Journals.
The online edition features the latest breaking business news, updated throughout the day, some of the week's top stories from Pacific Business News and other popular features from the print edition including their Public Record, the weekly Business Calendar, the Small Business Strategies section, and more.
10. Honolulu Weekly
Honolulu Weekly bills itself as the only Honolulu newspaper that is "locally owned, independent and committed to Hawaii." It is a nice alternative voice to the new Honolulu Star-Advertiser, although their website is often a bit difficult to navigate due to its front page layout.
11. Lahaina News
Lahaina News is a weekly paper on West Maui with a hard copy edition published every Thursday and available throughout West Maui.
Bulletins and calendar events on the internet edition are updated on Thursday/Friday. There are lots of really interesting features here dealing primarily with what's going on in West Maui.12. Local TV Stations
Several local TV stations in Hawaii offer excellent news coverage. Many offer archived videos of top recent stories and during times of a major news story, such as the March 2011 tsunami, offer continuous live streaming video.
Hawaii News Now - The combined news operation of KGMB (CBS) and KHNL (NBC) in Honolulu. The offer daily live stream of their morning Sunrise program.
KHON - The local Fox affiliate in Honolulu.
KITV.com - The local ABC affiliate in Honolulu.
