9+ min ago  (115+ words) KWXX - Hawaii Hawai'i Island police have initiated a coroner's inquest investigation following the discovery of a decomposed body in Waimea. On June 30, South Kohala patrol officers responded to a report of a body in a stream near the 65-1200 block of…...

20+ min ago  (162+ words) KWXX - Hawaii The Hawai'i County Department of Public Works is alerting motorists that temporary traffic modifications will begin on K'lauea Avenue as part of the Safe Routes to Wai'kea Schools improvement project. The federally funded project, which begins on July…...

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2+ hour, 59+ min ago  (448+ words) KWXX - Hawaii Former CIA Director John Brennan filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Wednesday, asking a federal judge to compel government agencies to retain all internal communications and documents linked to active Department of Justice investigations involving him....

21+ hour, 41+ min ago  (371+ words) The Selma-to-Montgomery marches galvanized passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which did away with most barriers such as poll taxes and other forms of voter discrimination targeting Black Americans in the Deep South. One of the lei-bearers was Charles…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (776+ words) By a 6-3 vote, the court struck down Trump's order. A bare majority of five justices, in an opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, held that the long-settled understanding of the 14th Amendment, adopted after the Civil War, makes a citizen…...

23+ hour, 30+ min ago  (488+ words) The justices said Tuesday they will hear appeals challenging bans on the AR-15 and similar semiautomatic firearms in Connecticut and the Chicago area. Similar laws are in place in about a dozen states, covering major cities like New York, Los…...

23+ hour, 55+ min ago  (186+ words) Hawai'i Island police are investigating a recent assault that occurred in the Old Industrial area of Kailua-Kona. On June 28, Kona patrol officers responded to a report of an affray in the 74-5900 block of Loloku Street and located a male victim…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (494+ words) Supreme Court upholds state restrictions banning transgender girls, women from competing in school sports KWXX - Hawaii On Tuesday, the Supreme Court upheld state laws in Idaho and West Virginia that prohibit transgender girls and women from participating on female school…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (519+ words) KWXX - Hawaii The U. S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected President Donald Trump's effort to restrict birthright citizenship, ruling that his executive order cannot override the Constitution's longstanding guarantee that nearly everyone born on American soil is a U. S. citizen. Trump's order, signed…...