HONOLULU  – The loud booms and bright lights seen across Oahu on New Year’s Eve are once again sparking the debate over illegal aerials. Some lawmakers say they are looking at ways to step up enforcement since so many are ignoring the laws. Oahu banned aerial fireworks eight years ago, but you wouldn’t have been able […]

HONOLULU – Two mariners are missing after a large blaze onboard a car carrier en route to Hawaii, while three others have been located in the water but are described as “unresponsive.” The 650-foot Panamanian-flagged vessel Sincerity Ace got into trouble on New Year’s Eve about 2,000 miles off Oahu. The Coast Guard, Navy and […]

Hundreds of workers at a troubled clinical waste firm in North Lanarkshire have been made redundant. Healthcare Environmental Services (HES) said its banking facilities had been cut off following the loss of NHS contracts in Scotland and England. How did this happen and what does it mean for those affected? Where did the trouble start? […]

A year ago, experts warned that the UK could face a mountain of waste plastic as China imposed a ban on waste imports. In recent years, the UK has heavily relied on China to take our unwanted plastic packaging. Three years ago, the UK was exporting half a million tonnes of plastic to China and […]

Donald Trump’s offer of a “quick, massive, bilateral trade deal” will not be possible if Theresa May’s EU withdrawal agreement is approved, the US ambassador to the UK has warned. President Trump had previously said her Brexit proposal sounded like a “great deal for the EU”. Woody Johnson told the BBC the UK was “in need […]

A top Republican has said US President Donald Trump remains committed to defeating Islamic State (IS) in Syria, despite his plan to withdraw US troops. Senator Lindsey Graham suggested the withdrawal had been slowed and he was now reassured of the president’s commitment after meeting him on Sunday. Mr Trump’s troop pullout plan met strong […]

HONOLULU  – The flash flood warning for Kauai and Niihau expired Saturday afternoon while Kuhio Highway near the Hanalei Bridge remains restricted due to flooding. Unstable conditions brought torrential rain to Kauai on Saturday, causing landslides on Kuhio Highway in Hanalei. State Department of Transportation crews have since cleared the landslide, but the highway remains […]

Three decades after a top climate scientist warned Congress of the dangers of global warming, greenhouse gas emissions keep rising and so do global temperatures. Thirty years ago, a NASA scientist, James Hansen, told lawmakers at a Senate hearing that “global warming is now large enough that we can ascribe with a high degree of confidence a […]

Now that Santa has brought you that new gadget you wanted, the time has come to work out what to do with the old version of it. If it still works, you can always donate it or sell it. But if it’s dead or nearly dead, it’s important to remember that you can’t just bin […]

Travis Kling, a former Point72 Asset Management executive, a hedge fund that oversees $12.4 billion in assets, said that there is a big chance crypto becomes the best performing asset in 2019. The Ikigai Fund founder made the case that cryptocurrencies were never present during a proper bear market in traditional finance and the decline of the […]