Will American Airlines bar customers from changing a ticket?
American CEO Doug Parker says his airline would be acting just like many other businesses when customers want to swap their ticket for a different flight or for another day. Read more
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American CEO Doug Parker says his airline would be acting just like many other businesses when customers want to swap their ticket for a different flight or for another day. Read more
USDA investigators are concerned contaminated products may be inside consumers’ freezers. The products were shipped nationally. Read more
The animals killed by Florence will be buried, composted or “rendered” for usable parts, state officials said. Read more
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Hawaii’s unemployment rate remained at 2.1 percent in August for the third straight month amid continued strength in the state’s labor market. Read more
Agribusiness company Monsanto has asked a San Francisco judge to throw out a jury’s $289 million award to a former school groundskeeper who said the company’s Roundup weed killer left him dying of cancer. Read more
Hale Kipa, a Hawaii nonprofit organization that specializes in working with at-risk youth and their families, held a blessing Monday for its planned West Oahu campus. Read more
McDonald’s workers are staging protests in several cities in what organizers called the first multistate strike seeking to combat sexual harassment in the workplace. Read more
Honolulu-based ocean cargo transportation firm Matson Inc. plans to start serving one of the most remote islands in the Pacific next week. Read more
Hawaiian Airlines announced late Thursday night that it will be the only carrier to offer nonstop flights between Honolulu and Boston when it begins the service in April. Read more
Alexander & Baldwin mailed out out a survey this week to Kailua residents, asking for their feedback on the town’s future to fulfill a promise made at a neighborhood board meeting several months ago. Read more
Facebook and other companies routinely track your online surfing habits to better target ads at you. Two web browsers now want to help you fight back in what’s becoming an escalating privacy arms race. Read more
It would be humanity’s first lunar visit since 1972. Read more
Together, the agreements ban enforcement nationwide of no-poaching agreements among most of the major fast-food companies that have a presence in Washington, the state’s attorney general, Bob Ferguson, said in an interview today. Read more
Long-term U.S. mortgage rates this week jumped to their highest level since the start of August, raising costs for would-be homebuyers. Read more
The city of Reno confirmed the first successful deliveries by multiple drones steered by a single operator under a federal program fast-tracking regulatory approval for unmanned aerial vehicles nationwide. Read more
Apple CEO Tim Cook has long emphasized the watch’s health and fitness-tracking capabilities. Read more
General Motors is recalling more than a million big pickup trucks and SUVs in the U.S. because of power-assisted steering problems that have been cited in a number of accidents. Read more
Amazon is designating 47,000 square feet of space at its new corporate office for a permanent Mary’s Place shelter. Read more
U.S. health officials are sounding the alarm about teenage use of e-cigarettes, calling the problem an “epidemic” and ordering manufacturers to reverse the trend or risk having their flavored vaping products pulled from the market. Read more
Bob Woodward’s account of a dysfunctional Trump White House has already sold more than 750,000 copies the day after the book arrived in stores, Simon & Schuster announced. Read more
Apple unveiled three new iPhones today, including its biggest and most expensive model yet, as the company seeks to widen the product’s appeal amid slowing sales. Read more