The Phoenix in Conversation with Hawaii Governor Josh Green ’92

Josh Green was born in 1970 in Kingston, NY, and raised mostly in Pittsburgh. After studying anthropology and biology at Swarthmore, he attended medical school at The Pennsylvania State University and completed residency at the University of...

Daylight Saving Time Ends Soon. Here's When to Set Your Clocks Back

The days of mid-afternoon sunsets are almost upon us as winter draws nearer. A few days after Halloween, most of the US will be moving the clocks backward one hour. Daylight saving time ends on Nov. 2, with the time officially changing at 2 a.m....

VOLCANO WATCH: The Wild Job Of HVO Field Technicians

(BIVN) – This week’s Volcano Watch article was written by Miki Warren, a USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory field engineer: The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) monitors volcanic activity across the Hawaiian Islands and American Samoa,...

2025 Mosooi Festival opens with spectacular entertainment

It was a spectacular premiere night for the 2025 Mosooi Festival of Arts and Humanities at Utulei Beach on Saturday night. Those who turned out were treated to a high standard of entertainment which included Samoan pese and siva, Polynesian...

Cubs BCB After Dark: Who do you start in Game 4?

It’s Wednesday night here at BCB After Dark: the coolest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Welcome to the victory party. The Cubs are still down, but they are a lot closer to being back up tonight then they were...

Volcano Watch: The wild job of HVO’s technicians

The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory monitors volcanic activity across the Hawaiian Islands and American Samoa, helping to ensure public safety and support scientific research. Behind the scenes, the work of field technicians is critical to this...

How are ASG operations affected by US Govt. shutdown?

Tuesday was the seventh day of the federal government shutdown. On Monday, the U.S. Senate defeated for the fifth time both GOP and Democratic alternatives to keep the government fully operating. Sixty votes were needed to end debate and take up...

Bryan Seeks Federal Exemption from New Customs Policy Impacting Virgin Islanders

Last updated at 12:37 p.m. on Tues. Oct. 7, 2025 Government House announced Tuesday that Governor Albert Bryan Jr. has initiated a coordinated territorial response to the Trump administration’s Executive Order 14324, which suspended the duty-free...

Tora champions indigenous knowledge

American Samoa IN a significant move aimed at environmental protection, American Samoa has formally opposed deep-sea mining in its waters . . . Please Subscribe to view full content... Register New Account

Pacific news in brief for 6 October

Fijain Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka and Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele in Suva. June 2025 Photo: Facebook / Fiji Government Fiji/Solomon Islands - defence A newly signed defence agreement between the governments of Fiji and...

When is daylight saving time 2025? Here's when clocks 'fall back' in Seattle

Across much of the U.S., the clocks change twice a year. In spring, they move forward an hour to mark the start of daylight saving time, and in fall, they shift back an hour as it ends. This gives early risers an extra hour of sleep before their...

Women’s volleyball drops pair of Big Ten bouts

Last weekend, No. 17 women’s volleyball played its first stretch of Big Ten matches at home, and for the first time this season, the Trojans looked fallible at Galen Center. They fell in a four-set match to unranked Indiana and got swept by No. 13...

When does daylight saving time end?

That special time of year is less than a month away, and no, we aren't talking about the holiday season. New Yorkers are all set to lose an hour of sleep and "fall back" starting 2 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 2. That's right, it's almost time for daylight...

When is daylight saving time 2025? The dark side of turning back time has hidden health dangers

With autumn officially in, clocks will fall back one hour on Sunday, November 2, 2025 at 2 am EST as daylight saving ends this fall. Americans must get ready to adjust their clocks this fall. The daylight saving time (DST) has been observed since...

Daylight saving time is coming to a close. When is it? Here's what to know

Autumn is here, and that means it's time for the clocks to fall back. Here's what you need to know: When is daylight saving time? Daylight saving time starts on the second Sunday of March, when clocks spring forward an hour. Clocks will fall back...

When do we change our clocks back this fall?

Get ready to change your clocks back again, as daylight saving time ends early next month. In November, clocks will "fall back" to standard time, where they will remain until next spring. For some regions of the United States, this will mean an...

Wespac moves toward reopening Pacific monument to commercial fishing

The prospects of opening up Hawaii’s protected marine monument to commercial fishing has moved a step closer to reality. Members of the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, or Wespac, voted Sept. 17 to move toward allowing...

Daylight saving time ends Nov. 2: What to know about the time change

Daylight saving time will end on Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025, at 2 a.m. The primary purpose of daylight saving time is to better utilize natural daylight and conserve energy. Efforts to make daylight saving time permanent have not advanced in Congress....

Lori Dengler | The Kamchatka tsunami from a U.S. perspective

Safety in tsunamis is all about one issue — evacuation. The whole point of a tsunami warning system is to get people out of harm’s way before tsunami surges reach them. There are two big pieces to the evacuation problem: under-evacuation and...

Yet Another Study Reveals Just How Bad Daylight Saving Time Is For Everyone’s Health

iStockphoto Audio By Carbonatix For some reason, Daylight Saving Time (DST), an initiative that was first enacted in the United States in 1918 to conserve energy during World War I, is still with us more than 100 years later. Why? No one you ask...