Hawaii News & Live Radio

Hawaiʻi's news by island, live Hawaiian and island radio, podcasts, and what a day in the islands means for you. For kamaʻāina, visitors and anyone with ʻohana in Hawaiʻi. NOT A GOVERNMENT APP, NOT AN OFFICIAL ALERT SYSTEM: Hawaii News is independent. It does not represent the State of Hawaiʻi, a county, the National Weather Service or any government agency and is not affiliated with them. Alerts can be late or missing: in an emergency, call 911 and follow county and state instructions. The app draws on several sources, all listed under SOURCES. NEWS By island (Oʻahu, Maui County, Hawaiʻi Island, Kauaʻi), place and topic: politics, cost of living, weather and surf, volcanoes, tourism, culture, the military, business, crime, schools and health, sports. Follow what matters: a notification at most once a day each, never at night. RADIO AND PODCASTS Live Hawaiʻi Public Radio news and classical, Kauaʻi and Kaʻū community radio, college radio, and Hawaiian and island music, plus Hawaiʻi podcasts. Plays with the screen off; sleep timer. TODAY For your place: National Weather Service alerts for your island, surf by shore, tides, Kīlauea and Mauna Loa alert levels, earthquakes, weather, the next two hours' rain, sea temperature and UV. CALENDAR State holidays with the observed dates, public school breaks, the monthly siren test, hurricane season, state and county tax dates and island events, with reminders. ʻŌLELO A Hawaiian word a day, and "Hawaiʻi explained": tap kuleana, HECO or vog under a headline. SOURCES Government information, and its source: Alerts and the surf forecast: National Weather Service Honolulu, https://www.weather.gov/hfo/ Hurricanes: Central Pacific Hurricane Center, https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/cphc/ Tides: NOAA Tides & Currents, https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/ Volcano alert levels: USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/hvo Earthquakes: USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/ Outdoor warning sirens and emergencies: Hawaiʻi Emergency Management Agency, https://dod.hawaii.gov/hiema/ Beach water quality: Department of Health, Clean Water Branch, https://health.hawaii.gov/cwb/ State holidays: Department of Human Resources Development, https://dhrd.hawaii.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/State-Holidays-2026-2027.pdf School calendar: Hawaiʻi Department of Education, https://hawaiipublicschools.org/useful-links/school-calendar/ State income tax: Department of Taxation, https://tax.hawaii.gov/ Property tax: Honolulu https://realproperty.honolulu.gov/, Maui County https://www.mauicounty.gov/, Hawaiʻi County https://hawaiicounty.gov/, Kauaʻi County https://kauai.gov/ Time and daylight saving: NIST, https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/popular-links/daylight-saving-time-dst Pearl Harbor National Memorial: NPS, https://www.nps.gov/perl/index.htm Everything else: News, from each paper's or station's own feed: Honolulu Civil Beat, KHON2, Hawaii News Now, KITV, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Hawaii Tribune-Herald, West Hawaii Today, The Garden Island, Maui Now, Big Island Now, Kauaʻi Now, Hawaii Business Magazine More news through Google News, https://news.google.com/: The Maui News, Pacific Business News, Hawaiʻi Public Radio, AP, Reuters, NPR, CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, USA Today, LA Times, Stars and Stripes, ESPN, Surfer, WSL, Bloomberg, WSJ Radio, each station's own live stream: HPR-1 and HPR-2, KKCR, Kaʻū Radio, KTUH, MauiRadio.net, KPOA, The Wave 105.9, KOKO 96.3, 94.7 KUMU Podcasts, each show's own feed: The Conversation, Bytemarks Café, Hawaii News Now shows, Voice of Business Weather and sea: Open-Meteo, https://open-meteo.com/ Photos: Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/, credited in the app WHAT IT CAN'T DO Stories are the publishers' own; some ask you to subscribe. Radio is live, not on demand. Data can lag: in danger, follow the authorities and call 911. Free, with a single banner ad. A one-time purchase removes it.