Followers of the legacy Kauaʻi newspaper The Garden Island were recently introduced to two AI broadcasters named “Rose” and ...

One effect of Hurricane Hone’s passage to the south of the Big Island in late August was to take almost all of the island out of drought conditions.

Short takes, outtakes, our takes and other stuff you should know about public information, government accountability and ethical leadership in Hawaii.

James and Rose are, you may have noticed, not human reporters. They are AI avatars crafted by an Israeli company named Caledo ...

Uncanny Anchors A local newspaper in Kauai, Hawaii called The Garden Island is using AI to power fake newscasters, a former ...

To the undiscerning eye, it may not be obvious when fall comes around in the Aloha State. But folks who have lived here for a while know the signs of the seasonal change. We also know what to look for ...

Over the past several weeks, magma moving close to the surface has been cracking the ground and generating thousands of small ...

The AI-generated newscasts have come out twice a week, with the latest one getting more than a thousand views on the newspaper’s YouTube channel. While some have come out in support, others have ...

It’s exploitation, and this is just an extension of that. I don’t see this as anything less than digital colonialism.” – Kaitlin Gillespie, staff representative for Pacific Media Workers, which ...

Designer Walter Lamb started making his distinctive chairs after spotting a huge pile of bronze tubing that had been salvaged ...

A popular trail on the north side of the island is scheduled to partially reopen about two weeks after a virus sickened ...

We’ve scouted out some affordable hotel properties across the nation that manage to combine comfort, style and desirable ...