Warriors experience more growing than growing pains
Champs again: Kona football claims CPB/BIIF DI title over Kea‘au
KEALAKEKUA — Clinching island titles have never been No. 13 Konawaena football’s ultimate goal, but head coach Brad Uemoto admitted that Saturday night’s Central Pacific Bank/Big Island Interscholastic Federation Division I Championship win over Kea‘au was a step in the right direction for where the Wildcats ultimately want to be at the end of the season.
Weary, troubled and nervous: Americans flood the early vote
An anxious America, weary from a vitriolic campaign season and worried about the state of the nation’s democracy, is voting with determination, with roughly 75 million people having cast ballots in the early voting period.
State Champs! HPA takes home XC girls Division II crown
The 2024 Honolulu Marathon Cross Country Championships were held Saturday morning at Maui’s Keopoulani Park, and 53 boys and 48 girls represented the Big Island Interscholastic Federation (BIIF).
Sports in brief for November 4
Cowboys star WR CeeDee Lamb injures right shoulder
Coast Guard members, civilians honored for Lahaina heroism
A vivid Trump-Harris contrast in campaign’s grueling final days
It was the final Sunday of the campaign for president, and Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump were continuing to race across battleground states in their search for support. But in message and demeanor, Harris, the Democrat, and Trump, the Republican, could not have been more different.
Why voters in a handful of swing states will decide the US presidential election
The winner of Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election will govern a nation of more than 330 million people, but the contest will almost certainly be decided by just tens of thousands of voters — a tiny fraction of the populace — in a handful of states.
Moldova’s pro-Western Sandu claims election win after meddling allegations
CHISINAU — Moldova’s pro-Western incumbent Maia Sandu claimed victory at Sunday’s closely-fought presidential election, defeating Alexandr Stoianoglo, her rival backed by the traditionally pro-Russian Socialist Party.
Public funding for nature conservation stalls at COP16, eyes on private investment
CALI, Colombia — Wealthy nations appeared to hit a limit with how much they are willing to pay to conserve nature around the world, instead shifting their focus at the two-week U.N. biodiversity summit toward discussions of private money filling the funding gap.
Israeli authorities probe suspected Gaza intelligence leak by Netanyahu aide
RISHON LE-ZION, Israel — A suspected leak of classified Gaza documents involving an aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has jolted Israeli politics and outraged the families of hostages held by Hamas who have been pushing for a deal to get their loved ones home.
HHSAA volleyball: HPA finishes third at states; KSH falls in fifth-place match
Big Island Interscholastic Federation (BIIF) girls volleyball wrapped up its week at states with consolation matches on Saturday on O‘ahu.
Nageeye outruns Chebet, Kenyans sweep women’s podium at New York City Marathon
NEW YORK — Dutchman Abdi Nageeye survived a tense battle through the final mile to win the New York City Marathon in two hours seven minutes and 39 seconds on Sunday, while Sheila Chepkirui led a Kenyan sweep of the women’s podium in 2:24:35.
Demarcus Robinson hauls in TD to send Rams past Seahawks in OT
Demarcus Robinson made a one-handed 39-yard touchdown catch with 4:57 left in overtime to give the Los Angeles Rams a 26-20 victory against the host Seattle Seahawks on Sunday.
How do you get kids to read? Give them pizza
On a recent afternoon, Frank Torok sat inside a pint-size Pizza Hut pop-up, lifted the lid of a miniature pizza box and was overwhelmed by a wave of nostalgia (and a whiff of fresh hot mozzarella).
How a 178-year-old magazine stays relevant, one Instagram post at a time
NEW YORK — On a Tuesday morning in early October, Stellene Volandes, the editor-in-chief of Town &Country, sat around a conference table on the 19th floor in the Hearst Tower with three senior editors. They were intensely debating cover lines for the print magazine’s philanthropy issue, coming out in November with multiple cover subjects, including actress Mariska Hargitay and former football player Michael Strahan.
The anti-DEI agitator that big companies fear most
In early June, Robby Starbuck sat on the patio of his home in suburban Tennessee and recorded an eight-minute monologue on his mobile phone — a no-frills, TikTok-style video titled “Exposed: Tractor Supply Went Woke.”
Protests over Spain flood response interrupt king’s visit to stricken Valencia suburb
PAIPORTA, Spain — Hundreds of residents of a Valencia suburb badly hit by last week’s deadly floods protested on Sunday during a visit by Spanish King Felipe, Queen Letizia, and Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, with some throwing mud at them.
Poor Americans disproportionately crushed by Biden-Harris inflation
All Americans are facing rising prices under the Biden-Harris administration, despite its claim that it’s “fighting to lower costs,” but the burden of soaring costs falls disproportionately on low-income families.
San Francisco uses the ocean as its toilet and wants to flush a key environmental law
San Francisco has long used the Pacific Ocean as its toilet. In heavy rains, the city on the hill cannot store all the storm runoff and sewage that flows toward an oceanside treatment plant in a single old pipe, so some heads out to sea. Now, in a case with national implications, San Francisco is hoping that the U.S. Supreme Court will allow it to pollute the ocean on occasion without violating the federal Clean Water Act.
