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A person wears a hat festooned with pride flags during Montpelier Pride on the lawn of the Statehouse in Montpelier in May 2025. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger The news was “heartbreaking.”  After 26 years, the Pride Center closed its doors in October due to a critical funding shortfall, said Monica Allard, co-chair of the center’s board of directors. It had lost money that typically comes from the federal government through the state of Vermont, a result of changing priorities

Northeast Kingdom writer Garret Keizer is the author of a new book of essays, “Starting from Paterson.” Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger Garret Keizer was listening to a prison group talk about his quarter-century-old first novel, “God of Beer,” when he felt gobsmacked. “It was quite humbling to have some of these young men quote passages to me that I couldn’t even remember writing,” he recently recalled with a laugh. Keizer could be forgiven. The 73-year-old Vermont author has publishe

University of Hawaii associate head baseball coach Keith Zuniga, the architect of one of college baseball’s top pitching staffs, is leaving the Rainbow Warriors to become USC’s pitching coach.

As it is most years, I had heard of few, if any, of the HMSA Kaimana Award scholarship winners until helping to choose them.

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Gov. Josh Green’s move Friday to reinstate renewable‑energy tax credits for this year offers only a temporary fix, advocates warn, leaving untouched the gap Hawaii faces to meet its accelerated climate targets — including 50,000 additional Oahu rooftop solar installations by 2030 and 100% renewable power on the neighbor islands by 2035.

A genealogical hunt to find beneficiaries of a $328 million Hawaii legal settlement is nearing a likely incomplete end after more than two years of difficult and often emotionally searing work.

On a breezy Friday evening in Waikiki, the Army awarded Gil Tam, 77, its annual Mana O Ke Koa — or “spirit of the warrior” — award in a beachside ceremony.

The sixth annual Hawai‘i Hotel & Restaurant Show this week is expected to fill Neal Blaisdell Center Exhibition Hall with leaders and representatives of the hospitality and food industries from Hawaii and throughout the Pacific Rim.

Community leaders, elected officials and immigrant farmers gathered at the North Shore Friday to bless Pacific Gateway Center’s new 80-acre Haleiwa farm, celebrating a project they say will strengthen Hawaii’s food security while creating economic opportunities for refugees, immigrants and survivors of human trafficking.

The union representing mental health therapists at Kaiser Permanente says patients are still waiting too long for their next available appointment.

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs will reconsider its vote against funding due diligence for a possible acquisition of KITV and KIKU, reviving a proposal the Board of Trustees narrowly rejected last month.

City Council Chair Tommy Waters is fighting to prevent his reelection bid in East Honolulu from becoming a referendum on the highly unpopular 64% Council pay raise he rammed through in 2023.

Up until now, the sports section of the newspaper has been a sanctuary for those of us seeking refuge from Donald Trump’s vainglorious infiltration of our culture. Is sacrilege too strong a word (“Trump draws boos as he attends Game 3 at MSG,” Star-Advertiser, June 9)?

As the Hawaii Tourism Authority is looking for viable visitor destination management, let me move your attention to the Waianae Coast — which holds a destination-management action plan hotspot, the Maili Pillbox Trail (“New plans for North Shore,” Star-Advertiser, April 26).

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Considered a month away from extinction just a week ago, Primm, Nev., the first casino stop for many visitors traveling to Las Vegas on I-15 from Los Angeles, has new life. The Primm family has inked a deal with Las Vegas-based Terrible’s to operate its hotel-casinos and related properties there, which appears to be a stay of execution for the Primm Valley Hotel-Casino and two gas stations that were scheduled to close on July 4. The Terrible’s brand is well-known in Nevada for its casinos and Te

I have been reading of the millions of dollars being poured into the development of Skyline. While I support the rail, I am concerned about the lack of bathroom facilities at the stations.

As someone who calls Hawaii a second home, I believe that it is important for me to care and respect the aina. During my first year of college on Oahu, I experienced many floods and power outages. I even saw firsthand the Kona-low storm in March, which was the worst flooding experienced on Oahu in 35 years.

Hurricane season is upon us — big time — with the official confirmation of an El Nino weather pattern. This season’s warmer-than-average ocean temperatures and weak trade winds make hurricanes far more likely this year. Consider yourselves warned: The Central Pacific Hurricane Center modeling predicts a “very busy year,” with between five and 13 tropical cyclones forming between June and November; each is a potential threat.