Beginning Thursday Sept. 24, most Oahu business establishments considered non-essential under the stay-at-home order will be allowed to reopen. These include retailers, salons and restaurants. Lalaine Ignao has the details in this report....Read More

Dozens of protestors in Honolulu took to the streets to slam the pardoning of a U.S. Marine convicted of killing a transgender Filipina six years ago, and who has since been flown from Manila to Oahu’s...

About one million acres have been burned with more than 1,000 homes destroyed. Over 40,000 residents had to evacuate their homes and about five hundred thousand people were under some level of evacuation order due to...

The deadly wildfires across the west coast continue to wreak havoc. A Filipino medical frontliner tells Balitang America that the hospital where she is working has seen more patients due to breathing problems caused by wildfire...

West Coast residents continue to suffer from fires and smoke with Seattle, Washington posting the worst air quality in the world on Friday. How can breathing wildfire smoke and ash impact the risk of contracting COVID-19?...

Filipino frontliners in Oahu are welcoming the island’s newly extended stay-at-home order that requires certain businesses like salons and gyms to remain closed, and prohibits social gatherings....Read More

Khara Jabola-Carolus, not only has to care for her two young children, the 33 year-old also has her hands full as the executive director of Hawaii’s State Commission on the Status of Women, a government agency...

In the Hawaiian island of Oahu, which means “gathering place”, a strict shutdown has been reinstated amid another surge of coronavirus cases in the third largest island of Hawaii. Lalaine Ignao checks in with locals on...

The United States continues to battle COVID-19 with confirmed cases now going over 5.7 million and deaths surpassing 177,000. In Hawaii, Governor David Ige has taken steps to further protect residents. Lalaine Ignao tells us all...

Three Filipino candidates won their bids in Hawaii’s primary election and about 17 are moving forward to the general election in November....Read More