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Advertiser writes final chapter in 154-year story
Today's final edition of The Honolulu Advertiser ends a 154-year run that helped document and define the course of Island life from the days of the Hawaiian kingdom to the arrival of jets and the digital age.
Black paying $125M for Advertiser
Honolulu Star-Bulletin owner David Black is paying about $125 million to acquire The Honolulu Advertiser. The sale price — which a person familiar with the deal confirmed for the first time — is roughly half of the $250 million that former owner Gannett Co. paid for The Advertiser in 1992.
Advertiser timeline
Advertiser timeline.
Moving on with life can be harder for military widows
RAEFORD, N.C. — Joann Yost still feels the stares of the other military wives five years after her husband was killed in Iraq: It happens at ceremonies honoring fallen soldiers or when she's grocery shopping with her son.
Repairs set for Midway hangar
The federal government plans to spend several million dollars restoring a historic seaplane hangar that played a key role in the Battle of Midway during World War II. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which today runs a nature reserve at the remote atoll of Midway 1,300 miles northwest of Honolulu, announced the plan Thursday on the 68th anniversary of the battle.