Hawaii Tribune-Herald

Shutdown solution seems unlikely before Dems take House

Dec. 28, 2018 • Updated 8:19 p.m.

WASHINGTON — It’s looking increasingly like the partial government shutdown will be handed off to a divided government to solve in the new year — the first big confrontation between President Donald Trump and Democrats — as agreement eludes Washington in the waning days of the Republican monopoly on power.

Boy, 12, survives avalanche that buried him for 40 minutes

Dec. 28, 2018

PARIS — A 12-year-old boy in the French Alps was found alive and uninjured after being buried under an avalanche for 40 minutes, an event his rescuers are calling a true “miracle.”

Mortgage-free condo donated to Army veteran

Dec. 28, 2018 • Updated 7:55 p.m.

KAILUA-KONA — Destin Foree was overcome with emotion as he stood at the steps of a Kailua-Kona condo with his wife and four sons as the key to the front door was given to them — permanently.

Minister assaulted, man arrested

Dec. 28, 2018

KAILUA-KONA — The minister of the Kona Koyasan Daishiji Mission in Holualoa is at home recovering after a reported robbery Wednesday left him with numerous abrasions to his head, neck and elbows.

PGV: Donation unrelated to permit request

Dec. 28, 2018

Puna Geothermal Venture’s $150,000 donation to Hawaii County for disaster response was unrelated to its request to build an emergency access road over the lava flow, says its Hawaii representative.

Alaska company proposes satellite launch facility on Shipman land

Dec. 28, 2018 • Updated 7:28 a.m.

An environmental assessment is being drafted for a proposed small satellite launch facility in East Hawaii.

Tourism still lagging

Dec. 28, 2018

Tourism to the Big Island was down from last year for the sixth month in a row, according to preliminary data from the Hawaii Tourism Authority.

Fed up: Much damage done by a president without boundaries

Dec. 28, 2018

Congratulations, Donald Trump, on presiding over the biggest single day’s stock market point gain in Dow Jones Industrial Average history. The biggest!

Measles outbreaks in US and Europe should be a wake-up call for states with loose immunization rules

Dec. 28, 2018 • Updated 5:23 p.m.

Public health officials in New York and New Jersey are fighting a measles outbreak that has sickened dozens of people since November, most of them unvaccinated members of orthodox Jewish communities.

Trump finally found a conspiracy theory he doesn’t believe

Dec. 28, 2018 • Updated 5:11 p.m.

WASHINGTON — President Trump finally found a conspiracy theory he doesn’t believe.

Cartoon for December 28

Dec. 28, 2018

The world as seen by cartoonist Steve Breen, The San Diego Union-Tribune.

Bieni Kohler-Johnson Fun Run and Dog Walk slated for April at HPA

Dec. 28, 2018 • Updated 4:44 p.m.

The Bieni Kohler-Johnson Fun Run and Dog Walk is slated for 8 a.m. April 13, 2019.

Senior ID card schedule for January

Dec. 28, 2018

The county Department of Parks and Recreation Elderly Activities Division Coordinated Services for the Elderly announces the January schedule for seniors to get identification cards. The schedule is as follows:

Shall we dance?

Dec. 28, 2018

Try something new in 2019 by enrolling in Wednesday night dance classes with the Big Island Ballroom Dance Club.

North Hawaii Community Hospital hosts ground blessing for new ER

Dec. 28, 2018

A ground blessing was hosted Nov. 12 at North Hawaii Community Hospital, as crews prepared to start construction on the hospital’s new emergency room.

Rotary Club of South Hilo seeks proposals

Dec. 28, 2018

The Rotary Club of South Hilo announces a request for proposals from any nonprofit organization seeking project funding for 2019.

Saudi king orders Cabinet shakeup after Khashoggi’s killing

Dec. 28, 2018

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia’s King Salman issued a wide-ranging overhaul of top government posts on Thursday, including naming a new foreign minister, following international fallout from the killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi nearly three months ago.

Nation and World briefs for December 28

Dec. 28, 2018

A brief look at news from around the globe.

Father of dead Guatemalan boy heard rumors they could cross

Dec. 28, 2018 • Updated 2:20 p.m.

GUATEMALA CITY — The father of an 8-year-old Guatemalan boy who died in U.S. custody took his son to the border after hearing rumors that parents and their children would be allowed to migrate to the United States and escape the poverty in their homeland, the boy’s stepsister told The Associated Press.

Furious Iraqi lawmakers demand US troop withdrawal

Dec. 28, 2018

BAGHDAD — President Donald Trump’s surprise trip to Iraq might have quieted criticism at home that he had yet to visit troops in a combat zone, but it infuriated Iraqi politicians who on Thursday demanded the withdrawal of U.S. forces.

Pope’s Christmas wish: World fraternity despite differences

Dec. 28, 2018

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis offered a Christmas wish for fraternity among people of different nations, cultures, faiths, races or ideas, describing the world’s differences as a richness, not a danger, and championing the rights of religious minorities.