This attempt to create a new state -- which would be the first since Hawaii in 1959 -- is a longshot proposition for the county just east of Los Angeles that has suffered from sharp increases in cost of living. It would hinge on approval by the California Legislature and Congress, both ...
“Regarding council elections, the Board cited fiscal constraints as the MAC has no authority to raise revenues through taxation, so it would have to rely on the County’s general fund to pay for elections. County
The cold-weather shelter opens again as temperatures dip into the 30s, Marineland and Flagler County workshop a new agreement over park land, ‘Exit Laughing,’ at Daytona Playhouse, Elvis’s Aloha from Hawaii. Panama to U.S. and China: Buzz Off ...
Scientifically known asMonopterus albus, the Asian swamp eel is a unique, air-breathing fish native to Southeast Asia, thriving in muddy, stagnant waters.First detected in Florida in 1997, the species has established in numerous parts of the country, including Hawaii and Georgia. There is increa...
Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano Is Spewing Lava Once Again One of the world’s most active volcanoes is back in action Associated PressJan. 28, 2025 Google to Change Map Names for Gulf of Mexico and Denali When US Updates Them Based on Trump Order Google says it will take...
Hawaii became the first of 34 other states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, but the bill hit anti-feminist backlash in the mid-'70s and failed to become ratified by the necessary 38 states by its July 1982 deadline. [Pictured: Women ...
Senior campaigns and elections editor 1:52 p.m. Taking Biden at face value about Michigan and Wisconsin — where, for what it's worth (not that much), the exit poll data looks pretty good for him and he came in with a significant polling lead — here's where the map goes: If Biden...
"Some say that Ka Le is haunted--and it is. But it's haunted not by Hawaii's legendary night marchers. The mysterious sounds are "Na leo o Kamaoa"-- the disembodied voices of 37 skeletal wind turbines abandoned to rust on the hundred-acre site of the former Kamaoa Wind Farm. . ...
Hawaii, Guam, Philippines, Singapore, Hong Kong, five days on the Amazon River in a single engine wooden boat, Peru, Chile, Costa Rica, Honduras, Ecuador, Galapagos Islands, Egypt, the Nile, ballooned over the Sahara Desert, England, Kenya and France, Jerusalem, Sudan, Germany, Holland and...
To my left is the banyan tree beloved by this community for over 150 years here in the former capital of the Kingdom of Hawaii, that has stood for generations as a sacred spot of exceptional significance. One of the people who took me under his wing when I first got to the Senate was...